Actor
Bernard Hill
December 17, 1944 · Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
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.
Notable work
7.9Titanic (1997)
as Captain Smith
8.5The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
as Théoden
8.4The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
as Théoden
7Valkyrie (2008)
as General - Desert Sequence
5.6The Scorpion King (2002)
as Philos
7ParaNorman (2012)
as Judge Hopkins (voice)
6.2Gothika (2003)
as Phil Parsons
7.6Gandhi (1982)
as Sergeant Putnam
6.1First Knight (1995)
as Knight (uncredited)
6.8The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
as Dr. David Hawthorne
6.2Wimbledon (2004)
as Edward Colt
6.5True Crime (1999)
as Warden Luther Plunkitt
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