Bernard Hill

Highest Rated:
96% The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Lowest Rated:
15% Gothika (2003)
Birthday:
Dec 17, 1944
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
When producers of the Lord of the Rings trilogy needed an actor of eminence and power to play King Théoden in the second and third films, they went fishing and reeled in a prize catch: Bernard Hill. It was Hill who portrayed Captain E.J. Smith in the 1997 box-office blockbuster Titanic. By sinking…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 15% - 96%
Number of Movies: 49
Box Office Since 2001: $1081.0M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 87% ParaNorman
  • The Judge
$56.0M
2010 56% The Kid
  • Actor
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2008 59% Franklyn
  • Peter Esser
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2008 Wild China
  • Actor
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2008 62% Valkyrie
  • Confident General - Desert
$83.0M
2007 El Corazón de la tierra (The Heart of the Earth)
  • Mr. Crown
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2007 No Go: The Free Derry Story
  • Actor
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2007 Save Angel Hope
  • Actor
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2006 Ocean Odyssey
  • Actor
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2006 Joy Division (Vörös Vihar)
  • Actor
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2005 83% The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
  • King William III
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2005 El Sueño de Una Noche de San Juan (Midsummer Dream)
  • Actor
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2004 Grid
  • Actor
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2004 61% Wimbledon
  • Edward Colt
$16.8M
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Extended)
  • Actor
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2003 15% Gothika
  • Phil Parsons
$59.5M
2003 94% The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • King Théoden
$377.0M
2003 46% The Boys and Girl From County Clare
  • John Joe MacMahon
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2002 96% The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • Théoden
$340.5M
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended)
  • Actor
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2002 40% The Scorpion King
  • Philos
$90.3M
2000 33% The Criminal
  • Detective-Inspector Walker
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2000 Going Off Big Time
  • Actor
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2000 67% A Question of Faith
  • Actor
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2000 64% Eisenstein
  • Stalin
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1999 67% A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Egeus
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1999 54% True Crime
  • Luther Plunkitt
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1999 Great Expectations
  • Abel Magwitch
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1999 47% The Loss of Sexual Innocence
  • Actor
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1997 75% The Wind in the Willows (Mr. Toad's Wild Ride)
  • Engine Driver
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1997 88% Titanic
  • Captain Smith
$57.9M
1997 The Mill on the Floss
  • Edward Tulliver
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1996 50% The Ghost and the Darkness
  • Dr. Hawthorne
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1995 Madagascar Skin
  • Flint
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1990 69% Mountains of the Moon
  • Dr. David Livingstone
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1990 Shepherd on the Rock
  • Actor
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1990 68% The Rescuers Down Under
  • Actor
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1989 67% Shirley Valentine
  • Joe Bradshaw
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1988 91% Drowning by Numbers
  • Henry Madgett
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1987 Bellman and True
  • Hiller
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1986 No Surrender
  • Bernard
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1985 Restless Natives
  • Will's father
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1985 The Chain
  • Nick
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1984 81% The Bounty
  • Cole
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1983 Henry VI
  • Actor
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1982 89% Gandhi
  • Sergeant Putnam
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1980 The Black Stuff
  • Actor
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1976 Choice of Weapons
  • Actor
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1973 Hard Labour
  • Edward
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Bernard Hill Trivia

He is the only actor to appear in two of three highest Oscar winning movies. Three highest (11) Oscar winning movies are Ben-hur, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King. He played Theoden in LOTR - ROTK and Captain Edward James Smith in Titanic
- submitted by Manish G (24 months ago)

Quotes from Bernard Hill's Characters

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