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Bernard Hill

17 Dec, 1944 in Blackley, Manchester, England, UK

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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Titanic
79% (1997)
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Joy Division
51% (2006)
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The Kid
70% (2010)
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Exodus
58% (2007)
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No Surrender
62% (1985)
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The Chain
68% (1984)
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Canoe Man
40% (2010)
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Bombay Railway
0% (2008)
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Gandhi
76% (1982)
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Pit Strike
0% (1977)
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Runners
43% (1983)
Fox
10% (1980)
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Valkyrie
69% (2008)
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Eisenstein
55% (2000)
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Boy Soldier
0% (1987)
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Five Days
57% (2007)
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Sunshine
80% (2008)
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Fox
57% (1980)
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Screen Two
68% (1985)
Hope and Wire
0% (2014)
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Horizon
74% (1964)
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Wolf Hall
75% (2015)

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