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Bernard Hill
Known for: ActingBernard 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.
Filmography 44
Titanic
as Captain Smith 
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Théoden 
Valkyrie
as General - Desert Sequence 
The Responder
as Tom Carson 
Gothika
as Phil Parsons 
The Scorpion King
as Philos 
ParaNorman
as Judge Hopkins (voice) 
True Crime
as Warden Luther Plunkitt 
Wimbledon
as Edward Colt 
Franklyn
as Esser 
Five Days
as Gerard Hopkirk 
The Ghost and the Darkness
as Dr. David Hawthorne 
Wild China
as Himself - Narrator 
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Egeus 
The Bounty
as William Cole 
Boys from the Blackstuff
as Yosser Hughes 
Joy Division
as Dennis 
Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch 
Lipstick on Your Collar
as Uncle Fred 
Drowning by Numbers
as Henry Madgett 
From There to Here
as Samuel 
Mountains of the Moon
as Dr. Livingstone 
The Wind in the Willows
as The Engine Driver 
Shirley Valentine
as Joe Bradshaw 
The Black Stuff
as Yosser Hughes 
Trial by Combat
as Blind Freddie 
Golden Years
as Arthur 
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
as Susan's Father 
The Tragedy of Richard III
as First Murderer 
The Moor
as Thornley 
Forever Young
as Oscar Smith 
The Kid
as Uncle David 
Restless Natives
as Will's father 
Runners
as Trevor Field 
Madagascar Skin
as Flint 
Henry VI Part 2
as Duke of York 
Double X: The Name of the Game
as Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith 
Hard Labour
as Edward Thornley 
Henry VI Part 3
as Duke of York 
Shepherd on the Rock
as Tam Ferrier 
Henry VI Part 1
as Duke of York / Master Gunner Of Orleans 
North v South
as John Claridge