Bernard Hill
Born in 1944, Bernard Hill is a British actor. 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.
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later....
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Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as ThéodenFrodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and...
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Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native...
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In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock can speak to the dead, but no one other than his...
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True Crime
as Warden Luther PlunkittBoozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve...
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The Bounty
as William ColeThe familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This...
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Gothika
as Phil ParsonsAfter a car crash, a criminal psychologist regains consciousness only to find that she's a...
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In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes...
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The Ghost and the Darkness
as Dr. David HawthorneSir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John...
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The Scorpion King
as PhilosIn ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the...
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Wimbledon
as Edward ColtBritish tennis player Peter clutches to an embarrassingly low position on the tennis-ranking...
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Franklyn
as EsserSet between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated...
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Shirley Valentine
as Joe BradshawWondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
as EgeusThe lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend,...
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Great Expectations
as Abel MagwitchA young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few...
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Golden Years
as ArthurFate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have...
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Drowning by Numbers
as MadgettThree generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another...
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Mountains of the Moon
as Dr. LivingstoneThe story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find...
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Restless Natives
as Will's fatherTwo lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks...
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The Kid
as Uncle DavidBased on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his...
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The Criminal
as Det. Insp. WalkerJasper Rawlins, a none-too-successful musician, finds himself chatting with a beautiful woman at...
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Joy Division
as DennisA teenage orphan fights against the Red Army at the end of WWII and in the aftermath is...
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No Surrender
as BernardIt's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in...
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Hard Labour
as Edward ThornleyA quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.
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Exodus
as Pharoah MannThe story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands...
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The Wind in the Willows
as The Engine DriverJailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his...
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence
as Susan's FatherThe story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
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Canoe Man
as John DarwinThe story of the "Canoe Man" John Darwin who faked his own death and tried to start a new life...
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Madagascar Skin
as FlintThis is the story of Harry and Flint, an unlikely couple. Harry is a shy young gay man who can't...
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The Chain
as NickComedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on...
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Skallagrigg
as JohnBack in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in...
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Eisenstein
as The voice of StalinA glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
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Boy Soldier
as OfficerA young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn,...
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Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
as Captain EJ SmithJames Cameron brings together some the world's leading Titanic experts, including engineers,...
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Runners
as Trevor FieldWhen his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out...
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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
as King William IIIThe fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is...
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The Spongers
as SullivanIn the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother,...
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Forever Young
as Oscar SmithAn aging woman is given the chance to be young again and right her past but is faced with a...
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Outpost 11
as CranleighSet in an alternative past where steam power still rules the world, Outpost 11 is the story of...
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The Moor
as ThornleyClaire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the...
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The Boys & Girl from County Clare
as John JoeIn Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at...
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Reflections on Titanic
as SelfAn enthralling and fast-paced four-part documentary feature that covers the making of one of the...
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North v South
as John ClaridgeFor decades the criminal underworlds of the North and South bumped along begrudgingly. Like the...
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Squaring the Circle
as Lech WalesaAn account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist...
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The Heart of the Earth
as Sr. CrownTensions mount in an Andalusia mining town between local Spanish workers and their British...
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Dirtysomething
as LarryDirtysomething centres around young lovers Becca and Dog, an older fellow traveller, sage Larry,...
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Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
as MickOne man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and,...
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Henry VI Part 3
as Duke of YorkThe life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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Shoot the Revolution
as Octavian BarbuDuring the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor...
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The Tragedy of Richard III
as First MurdererRichard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the...
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Theban Plays: Antigone
as MessengerIn a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an...
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Henry VI Part 2
as Duke of YorkThe life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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The Mill on the Floss
as Edward TulliverLawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have...
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Bellman and True
as HillerHiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security...
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Going Off Big Time
as MurrayAfter surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world
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Ocean Odyssey
as Narrator (voice)The largest predator on the planet, the sperm whale, is your host for an amazing exploration of...
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The Burston Rebellion
as Tom HigdonDrama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914,...
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Henry VI Part 1
as Duke of York / Master Gunner Of OrleansThe life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
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The Black Stuff
as Yosser HughesA Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesborough. After a day of work, the group...
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Trial by Combat
as Blind FreddieA group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law...
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Housewives' Choice
as EricMarcia is looking for someone to look after her baby and Joyce seems ideal, looking like a...
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A Question of Faith
as FrederickA man at a monastery realizes he is a woman.
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Inside CERN
as NarratorBBC Horizon follows the ups and downs of an outstanding story in particle physics. In June 2015,...
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JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
as Self - Narrator (voice)JFK enjoyed a number of sexual liaisons that could have ended his political career, but his...
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Bombay Railway
as NarratorAs a sequel to BBC Four's acclaimed Monsoon Railway, this two-part observational documentary...
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Double X: The Name of the Game
as Ignatius 'Iggy' SmithExpert safecracker Arthur Clutten masterminds heists for a criminal syndicate he belongs to. But...
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Save Angel Hope
as Oscar KurzCon artists profit from a charity campaign to raise money for a fictitious hospital.
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The Art of Tripping
as uncreditedBased on the idea that drugs have influenced some of our greatest minds (Poe, Baudelaire etc.),...
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Beatles Biggest Secrets
as NarratorFeaturing new and exclusive interviews, Beatles' Biggest Secrets, reveals the inside story of...
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It Could Happen to You
as SyphAn educational film about the perils associated with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The...
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She Fell Among Thieves
as CarsonWhile on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm...
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Our Flesh and Blood
as Bernard BlincoeTV play by Mike Stott. Comedy about a couple expecting their first baby.
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Daft Mam Blues
as BillyAs sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their...
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Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
as Narrator (voice)A moving documentary made to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Penlee Lifeboat...
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No Go: The Free Derry Story
as Narrator (voice)On the 14th August 1969 the British Army were deployed onto Northern Ireland’s streets for the...
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Shepherd on the Rock
as Tam FerrierA developer tries to take over a Scottish shepherd's land.
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Titus: The Gorilla King
as NarratorThe compelling story of one of the most successful mountain gorillas that has ever lived - a...
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From Moscow to Pietushki
as Readings (voice)A look at Benedict Yerofeyev, the elusive author of the Russian underground classic From Moscow...
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Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
as RichardA former opera singer, a priest and a bullfighter meet on the island of Patmos, seeking...
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A Turn for the Worse
as Simon SimpsonSimon Simpson runs an entertainment agency in Liverpool. At one of his regular auditions in The...
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The Law Lord
as Martin AllportA new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home...
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Play for Today
as uncreditedPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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BBC Television Shakespeare
as uncreditedThe BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...
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HBO First Look
as SelfHBO First Look is an American television show on HBO that chronicles up and coming movies. It...
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Natural World
as uncreditedNatural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and...
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Between the Lines
as uncreditedDetective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation...
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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Bottom (voice)An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by...
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Unforgotten
as Father Robert GreavesLondon police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving...
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Wolf Hall
as Duke of NorfolkFollowing the fact-based historical book of the same name, this drama follows the rise of...
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I, Claudius
as GratusAcclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies,...
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Five Days
as Gerard HopkirkThriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
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Lipstick on Your Collar
as Uncle FredDuring the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall...
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Boys from the Blackstuff
as Yosser HughesAlan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian...
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Screen Two
as JohnSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
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Wild China
as Himself - NarratorThe dazzling array of mysterious and wonderful creatures that live in China's most beautiful...
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Fox
as uncreditedFox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the...
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Sunshine
as George CrosbySunshine is a three-part comedy drama that began on 7 October 2008 on BBC1 from the co-writers...
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Fairy Tales
as uncreditedFour contemporary adaptations of classic fairy tales, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Emperor's New...
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From There to Here
as SamuelFrom There To Here is set in the aftermath of the 1996 Arndale bombing and follows Daniel...
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The Grid
as uncreditedA team of American and British counter-terrorists are tasked with stopping a terrorist cell that...
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The Gambling Man
as Frank nickleBased on one of Catherine Cookson's most beloved works which revolves around slick cardplayer...
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Village Hall
as PolicemanVillage Hall is a drama anthology series made by Granada between 1974 and 1975. It is entirely...
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Surviving Disaster
as Himself - NarratorNatural and man-made catastrophes retold by eyewitnesses and dramatic reconstructions.
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Surviving Disaster
as uncreditedNatural and man-made catastrophes retold by eyewitnesses and dramatic reconstructions.
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Indian Hill Railways
as Self - Narrator (voice)From the Himalayas in the north to the Nilgiris in the south - for a hundred years these little...
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Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
as SelfAtheism: A Rough History of Disbelief – known in the United States as A Brief History of...
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Bombay Railway
as Self - Narrator (voice)A sequel to the BBC's acclaimed Monsoon Railway. A two-part documentary looks at the incredible...
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India's Frontier Railways
as Narrator - (Voice)Three-part series about trains crossing borders in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan,...
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