Bernard Hill (17 December 1944 β 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 ThΓ©oden 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 Pict...
Titanic
1997
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
2012
The Loss of Sexual Innocence
1999
John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
1985
Valkyrie
2008
True Crime
1999
Reflections on Titanic
2012
The Wind in the Willows
1996
A Question of Faith
2000
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999
The Scorpion King
2002
Gothika
2003
The Spongers
1978
She Fell Among Thieves
1978
The Bounty
1984
ParaNorman
2012
First Knight
1995
A Question of Identity
1992
Beatles Biggest Secrets
2004
Wimbledon
2004
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
Gandhi
1982
A Turn for the Worse
1981
It Could Happen to You
1976
Shirley Valentine
1989
Joy Division
2006
Franklyn
2008
Great Expectations
1999
The Moor
2024
The Tragedy of Richard III
1983
The Mill on the Floss
1997
Shoot the Revolution
1990
The Kid
2010
Henry VI Part 2
1983
The Heart of the Earth
2007
Bellman and True
1987
Henry VI Part 1
1983