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Bernard Hill is an English film, stage and television actor. He is known for playing Yosser Hughes, the troubled "hard man" whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale's groundbreaking 1980s TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff and, more recently, as the Duke of Norfolk in the BBC adaptation of Dame Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. He is also known for roles in blockbuster films, including Captain Edward Smith in Titanic, King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and Luther Plunkitt, the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime.
Born
Sunday, 17 December 1944
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Forever Young | Oscar Smith | 2023 |
| The Moor | Thornley | 2023 |
| Reunited Apart | Self | 2020 |
| What We Were Watching | Yosser Hughes | 2018 |
| Golden Years | Arthur | 2016 |
| North v South | John Claridge | 2015 |
| India's Frontier Railways | Self - Narrator | 2015 |
| Wolf Hall | Duke of Norfolk | 2015 |
| Unforgotten | Father Robert Greaves | 2015 |
| Hope and Wire | Len Russell | 2014 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Forever Young | Oscar Smith | 2023 |
| The Moor | Thornley | 2023 |
| Reunited Apart | Self | 2020 |
| What We Were Watching | Yosser Hughes | 2018 |
| Golden Years | Arthur | 2016 |
| North v South | John Claridge | 2015 |
| India's Frontier Railways | Self - Narrator | 2015 |
| Wolf Hall | Duke of Norfolk | 2015 |
| Unforgotten | Father Robert Greaves | 2015 |
| Hope and Wire | Len Russell | 2014 |
| From There to Here | Samuel | 2014 |
| How Britain Worked | Self - Narrator | 2012 |
| Falcón | Ramón Salgado | 2012 |
| Reflections on Titanic | Self | 2012 |
| OutPost 11 | Cranleigh | 2012 |
| ParaNorman | The Judge / Judge Hopkins (voice) | 2012 |
| Titanic's Final Mystery | Self - Narrator | 2012 |
| Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron | Captain EJ Smith | 2012 |
| The Kid | Uncle David | 2010 |
| Canoe Man | John Darwin | 2010 |
| Indian Hill Railways | Narrator | 2010 |
| Franklyn | Peter Esser / Esser | 2009 |
| Valkyrie | Confident General - Desert / General - Desert Sequence | 2008 |
| Sunshine | George Crosby | 2008 |
| Wild China | Self - Narrator / Himself - Narrator | 2008 |
| Fairy Tales | Grettongrat | 2008 |
| Exodus | Pharoah Mann | 2007 |
| Save Angel Hope | Oscar Kurz | 2007 |
| The Heart of the Earth | Mr. Crown / Sr. Crown | 2007 |
| Five Days | Gerard Hopkirk | 2007 |
| No Go: The Free Derry Story | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2006 |
| Joy Division | Dennis | 2006 |
| Secrets of the Deep | Narrator | 2006 |
| Tory! Tory! Tory! | Yosser Hughes | 2006 |
| Surviving Disaster | Narrator / Himself - Narrator | 2006 |
| A Very Social Secretary | David Blunkett | 2005 |
| Midsummer Dream | Theseus | 2005 |
| The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | King William III | 2005 |
| Cameras in Middle-Earth | Self | 2004 |
| Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief | Self - Readings / Himself | 2004 |
| Wimbledon | Edward Colt | 2004 |
| The Grid | Agent Derek Jennings | 2004 |
| Double Helix: The DNA Years | Narrator | 2004 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Theoden / Théoden | 2003 |
| Gothika | Phil Parsons | 2003 |
| Ancient Egyptians | Narrator | 2003 |
| The Boys & Girl from County Clare | John Joe | 2003 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Théoden / Theoden | 2002 |
| The Scorpion King | Philos | 2002 |
| Going Off Big Time | Murray | 2000 |
| Eisenstein | Stalin / The voice of Stalin | 2000 |
| A Question of Faith | Frederick | 2000 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Egeus | 1999 |
| The Loss of Sexual Innocence | Susan's Father | 1999 |
| Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | 1999 |
| True Crime | Warden Luther Plunkitt | 1999 |
| The Death Train | Self / Narrator | 1998 |
| Titanic | Captain Smith / Edward Smith | 1997 |
| Mr. Toad's Wild Ride | The Engine Driver | 1996 |
| The Ghost and the Darkness | Dr. David Hawthorne | 1996 |
| First Knight | Knight | 1995 |
| The Big Game | Mr. Harper | 1995 |
| The Gambling Man | Frank Nickle | 1995 |
| Madagascar Skin | Flint | 1995 |
| Telltale | Det. Sgt. Gavin Douglas | 1993 |
| Lipstick on Your Collar | Uncle Fred | 1993 |
| Shepherd on the Rock | Tam Ferrier | 1993 |
| Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Bottom | 1992 |
| Between the Lines | Chief Constable Harmsworth | 1992 |
| HBO First Look | Self | 1992 |
| Double X: The Name of the Game | Iggy / Iggy Smith / Ignatius 'Iggy' Smith | 1992 |
| Have I Got News for You | David Blunkett | 1990 |
| Mountains of the Moon | Dr. Livingstone | 1990 |
| About Face | Bryce | 1989 |
| Shirley Valentine | Joe Bradshaw / Joe | 1989 |
| New World | 1988 | |
| Drowning by Numbers | Madgett | 1988 |
| Bellman and True | Hiller | 1987 |
| Dispatches | Narrator | 1987 |
| Milwr Bychan | Officer | 1987 |
| The Theban Plays by Sophocles | Messenger | 1986 |
| Billy Connolly: An Audience with Billy Connolly | Self - Audience Member | 1985 |
| No Surrender | Bernard | 1985 |
| Screen Two | Tom Higdon / Martin Allport / Larry / John | 1985 |
| Restless Natives | Will's Father | 1985 |
| The Chain | Nick | 1984 |
| Squaring the Circle | Lech Walesa | 1984 |
| The Bounty | William Cole / Cole | 1984 |
| Runners | The Hotel - Trevor Field / Trevor Field | 1983 |
| The Third Part Of Henry The Sixth | Duke of York | 1983 |
| Richard III | First Murderer / Sir William Brandon | 1983 |
| Gandhi | Sergeant Putnam | 1982 |
| Boys from the Blackstuff | Yosser Hughes | 1982 |
| Timewatch | Narrator | 1982 |
| Say No to Strangers | Teresa's Dad | 1981 |
| The Glamour Girls | Boris | 1980 |
| Fox | Vin Fox | 1980 |
| The Black Stuff | Yosser Hughes | 1980 |
| Telford's Change | Jack Burton | 1979 |
| The Sailor's Return | Carter | 1978 |
| A Dirty Knight's Work | 'Blind' Freddie - beggar | 1976 |
| It Could Happen to You | Syph | 1976 |
| I, Claudius | Gratus | 1976 |
| Village Hall | Policeman | 1974 |
| Childhood | Janey's father | 1974 |
| Second City Firsts | Billy | 1973 |
| Warship | CPO Straker | 1973 |
| Crown Court | Jury Foreman / PC Cluff | 1972 |
| Play for Today | Sullivan / Simon Simpson / Mick / Graham / Eric / Edward / Bernard Blincoe | 1970 |
| Horizon | Self - Narrator / Narrator | 1964 |
