Biography

Bernard Hill was an English actor. He was well recognized for playing King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Captain Edward Smith in Titanic, and Luther Plunkitt, the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime. Hill was also known for playing roles in television dramas, including Yosser Hughes, the troubled "hard man" whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale's groundbreaking Boys from the Blackstuff in the 1980s, and more recently, as the Duke of Norfolk in the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall.

Actor

The Responder(2022)as Tom Carson

The Moor(2023)as Thornley

Forever Young(2023)as Oscar Smith

Second Chance(2018)as Peter

Interlude City(2016)as Richard

Self

Remembers...(2022)as Self

Reunited Apart(2020)as Self

Horizon(1964)as Self - Narrator

What Is Unforgotten?(2015)as Self

Unforgotten Takes Us Back to the 70s(2015)as Self

Archive Footage

TCM Remembers 2024(2024)as Self - Actor

SBS World News(2002)as Self - Actor

What We Were Watching(2018)as Yosser Hughes

Unforgotten: Building the Series(2017)as Father Robert Greaves

Unforgotten: Domestic Turmoil(2017)as Father Robert Greaves

Archive Sound

Horizon(1964)as Self - Narrator

Known for

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003 · Actor The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2002 · Actor Titanic1997 · Actor The Scorpion King2002 · Actor

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Bernard Hill in TCM Remembers 2024 (2024)

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, David Warner, and Bernard Hill in Titanic (1997)

Nicholas Bearde, Graham Beckel, John Finn, Bernard Hill, Michael McKean, and Kelvin Han Yee in True Crime (1999)

Bernard Hill and Isaiah Washington in True Crime (1999)

Credit Score: Bernard Hill

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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Wed Dec 17 2003

#	Name	Score	Year	Known	★	Wins	Noms	Votes
1	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	375.00	2003	•	9.0	11	11	2163425
2	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	125.00	2002	•	8.8	2	6	1956202
3	Titanic	100.00	1997	•	8.0	11	14	1391728
4	Wolf Hall	8.00	2015		8.2	0	9	18493
5	Gandhi	8.00	1983		8.0	8	11	247309
6	The Ghost and the Darkness	5.00	1996	•	6.8	1	1	70590
7	Wimbledon	2.50	2004	•	6.4	0	0	69157
8	A Midsummer Night's Dream	2.50	1999	•	6.4	0	0	28380
9	True Crime	2.50	1999	•	6.6	0	0	41276
10	Gothika	2.38	2003	•	5.8	0	0	124633

Bernard Hill