Bernard Hill
Birthday: 1944-12-17
Place of Birth: Blackley, Manchester, England, UK
Biography: 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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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the ...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forc...
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The Boys & Girl from County Clare
In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a mu...
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The Ghost and the Darkness
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry ...
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Joy Division
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The Heart of the Earth
Tensions mount in an Andalusia mining town between local Spanish workers and their British employers...
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The Bounty
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Gothika
After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that sh...
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Daft Mam Blues
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Ocean Odyssey
The largest predator on the planet, the sperm whale, is your host for an amazing exploration of the ...
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Wimbledon
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Franklyn
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis...
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Going Off Big Time
After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world...
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Great Expectations
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The Scorpion King
In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceres...
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Mountains of the Moon
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the so...
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Drowning by Numbers
Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another whic...
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The Kid
Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent in...
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Restless Natives
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence
The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life....
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Titus: The Gorilla King
The compelling story of one of the most successful mountain gorillas that has ever lived - a huge si...
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The Wind in the Willows
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Shoot the Revolution
During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a ...
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Shirley Valentine
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The Crumblegiant
An old woman remembers a childhood episode. The past becomes intermingled with the present. The Past...
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Exodus
The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with...
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ParaNorman
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Trial by Combat
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Save Angel Hope
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No Surrender
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The Criminal
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The Moor
Claire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the haunted ...
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Bellman and True
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The Chain
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving da...
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Madagascar Skin
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Canoe Man
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Forever Young
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Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary
A dramatisation based on the exchange of letters between Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabet...
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The Tragedy of Richard III
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The Spongers
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A Very Social Secretary
Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama ins...
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Outpost 11
Set in an alternative past where steam power still rules the world, Outpost 11 is the story of three...
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True Crime
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's fa...
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The Last Tommy
Britain's last First World War veterans recall their time serving on the Western Front;...
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Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron
James Cameron brings together some the world's leading Titanic experts, including engineers, naval a...
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JFK's Women: The Scandals Revealed
JFK enjoyed a number of sexual liaisons that could have ended his political career, but his brother ...
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The Black Stuff
A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesbrough. After a day of work, the group are ...
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Professional Foul
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to r...
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Dirtysomething
Dirtysomething centres around young lovers Becca and Dog, an older fellow traveller, sage Larry, and...
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Titanic: Secrets Revealed
What happened after the Titanic went down? Secrets has been revealed....
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From Moscow to Pietushki
A look at Benedict Yerofeyev, the elusive author of the Russian underground classic From Moscow to P...
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Double X: The Name of the Game
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North v South
For decades the criminal underworlds of the North and South bumped along begrudgingly. Like the Cold...
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Bombay Railway
As a sequel to BBC Four's acclaimed Monsoon Railway, this two-part observational documentary looks a...
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Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
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Olly's Prison
"When you marry, have kids...you'll still be in that chair." An ordinary city flat. Evening. A man t...
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Speaking In Tongues
Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what tha...
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Pit Strike
1972: striking miners converge on London's power stations. Among them, the huge, dignified figure of...
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The Sorrows
Sarah grows up with mentally ill parents, and an unexpected pregnancy pushes her toward what she thi...
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The Art of Tripping
Based on the idea that drugs have influenced some of our greatest minds (Poe, Baudelaire etc.), this...
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First Knight
The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period dram...
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Squaring the Circle
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dic...
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A Question of Identity
Erwin van Haarlem is a man of mystery. Living in London in 1986 and ostensibly a Dutch art dealer, h...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is...
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Golden Years
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived ...
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The Law Lord
A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secre...
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Runners
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a ...
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Fox
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in Sout...
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Interlude: City of a Dead Woman
A former opera singer, a priest and a bullfighter meet on the island of Patmos, seeking redemption; ...
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Valkyrie
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native German...
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The Mill on the Floss
Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned...
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It Could Happen to You
An educational film about the perils associated with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The drama...
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Boy Soldier
A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following ...
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No Go: The Free Derry Story
On the 14th August 1969 the British Army were deployed onto Northern Ireland’s streets for the first...
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Exodus
Exodus charts the decline of the Protestant population from Derry’s Cityside - which saw up to one i...
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Skallagrigg
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institution...
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Theban Plays: Antigone
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an ord...
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Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
A moving documentary made to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Penlee Lifeboat Disaste...
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She Fell Among Thieves
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A...
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Beatles Biggest Secrets
Featuring new and exclusive interviews, Beatles' Biggest Secrets, reveals the inside story of the wo...
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Housewives' Choice
Marcia is looking for someone to look after her baby and Joyce seems ideal, looking like a perfect, ...
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Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occas...
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A Turn for the Worse
Simon Simpson runs an entertainment agency in Liverpool. At one of his regular auditions in The Boot...
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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for ...
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The Burston Rebellion
Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who r...
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Reflections on Titanic
An enthralling and fast-paced four-part documentary feature that covers the making of one of the las...
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Inside CERN
BBC Horizon follows the ups and downs of an outstanding story in particle physics. In June 2015, tea...
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The Peddler
One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, ...
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The Titanic Chronicles
"The Titanic Chronicles" is based on the 1912 Senate Hearings into the "Titanic" Disaster. The actua...
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Titanic
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...
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The Making of 'The Two Towers'
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of 2002's "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Cre...
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The Making of 'The Return of the King'
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of 2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the K...
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Titanic: Southampton Remembers
Bernard Hill commemorates the centenary of the Titanic disaster, and discovers the impact the traged...
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John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
To commemorate the fifth anniversary of John Lennon's murder. Journey in the Life chronicles the lif...
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Heatwave
It's summer 2006, and what began as a pleasant sunny spell has developed into a meteorological night...
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On the Set of 'Gothika'
Documentary on the making of 'Gothika', featuring interviews with the cast and crew....
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Samson and Delilah
Based on the story from DH Lawrence set during the time of the Great War in Cornwall. When a dapper ...
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