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.

Bernard Hill (Manchester, 17 de dezembro de 1944) é um ator britânico de teatro, televisão e cinema. Recebeu o prêmio de Melhor Elenco em Cinema nos Prémios Screen Actors Guild 2004. Hill nasceu em Blackley, Manchester. Ele cresceu em uma família de mineiros católicos. Hill estudou no Xaverian College e depois na Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama junto de Richard Griffiths. Ele se formou em teatro em 1970. Hill é casado com Marianne, com quem teve um filho chamado Gabriel. Ele mora em Suffolk. Em 2019, recebeu um doutorado honoris causa pela Universidade de East Anglia.

Bernard Hill est un acteur britannique né le 17 décembre 1944 à Manchester.

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