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.
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101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later....
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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The Scorpion King
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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First Knight
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True Crime
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Hard Labour
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The Sorrows
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Henry VI Part 2
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Speaking In Tongues
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Beatles Biggest Secrets
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Boy Soldier
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The Titanic Chronicles
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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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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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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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Housewives' Choice
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Daft Mam Blues
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Inside CERN
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Eisenstein
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A Turn for the Worse
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Play for Today
as EdwardPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Play for Today
as GrahamPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Play for Today
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Play for Today
as Bernard BlincoePlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Play for Today
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Play for Today
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Play for Today
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Natural World
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BBC Television Shakespeare
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Five Days
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Unforgotten
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Wolf Hall
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Between the Lines
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HBO First Look
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I, Claudius
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The Responder
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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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Screen Two
as JohnSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
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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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Wild China
as Himself - NarratorThe dazzling array of mysterious and wonderful creatures that live in China's most beautiful...
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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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Fox
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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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The Grid
as uncreditedA team of American and British counter-terrorists are tasked with stopping a terrorist cell that...
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Fairy Tales
as uncreditedFour contemporary adaptations of classic fairy tales, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Emperor's New...
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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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From There to Here
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Village Hall
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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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Indian Hill Railways
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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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India's Frontier Railways
as Narrator - (Voice)Three-part series about trains crossing borders in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan,...
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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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