Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill (17 December 1944 – 5 May 2024) was an English actor. He was known as a character actor of film, stage and television, having acted in nearly 130 projects. He is best known to British television viewers for playing Yosser Hughes in the groundbreaking 1982 TV series Boys from the Blackstuff. On film he has played Captain Edward John Smith in Titanic, King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime. Hill is the only actor to have appeared in more than one of the three films awarded 11 Oscars, and one of only three actors to have starred in more than one film grossing more than $1 billion USD, namely: Titanic and The Return of the King (the others being Orlando Bloom who also starred in The Return of the King, as well as Pirates of the Caribbean and Johnny Depp who also starred in Pirates of the Caribbean, as well as Alice in Wonderland). Hill has appeared in three films which have won Best Picture: Gandhi, Titanic, and The Return of the King. Hill died on 5th May 2024 at the age of 79.
Acting
Movie
Titanic
as Captain Smith
1997
Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Théoden
2003
Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Théoden
2002
Movie
Valkyrie
as General - Desert Sequence
2008
Movie
The Scorpion King
as Philos
2002
Movie
ParaNorman
as Judge Hopkins (voice)
2012
Movie
Gandhi
as Sergeant Putnam
1982
Movie
Gothika
as Phil Parsons
2003
Movie
First Knight
as Knight (uncredited)
1995
Movie
The Ghost and the Darkness
as Dr. David Hawthorne
1996
Movie
Wimbledon
as Edward Colt
2004
Movie
True Crime
as Warden Luther Plunkitt
1999
Movie
The Bounty
as William Cole
1984
Movie
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Egeus
1999
Movie
Franklyn
as Esser
2008
Movie
Drowning by Numbers
as Henry Madgett
1988
TV
Unforgotten
as Father Robert Greaves
2015
TV
Wolf Hall
as Duke of Norfolk
2015
TV
I, Claudius
as Gratus
1976
TV
The Responder
as Tom Carson
2022
Movie
Shirley Valentine
as Joe Bradshaw
1989
Movie
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
as King William III
2005
Movie
Mountains of the Moon
as Dr. Livingstone
1990
Movie
The Wind in the Willows
as The Engine Driver
1996
