Bernard Hill
Birthday: 1944-12-17 | Place of Birth: Manchester, England, United KingdomBorn in 1944, Bernard Hill is a British actor of film, stage and television. 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Arthur
as John Claridge
as Samuel
as Captain EJ Smith
as Uncle David
as Esser
as George Crosby
as Himself - Narrator
as Himself - Narrator
as Pharoah Mann
as Sr. Crown
as Dennis
as Narrator
as John Joe
as Edward Colt
as Phil Parsons
as Philos
as Théoden
as Murray
as Det. Insp. Walker
as Susan's Father
as Warden Luther Plunkitt