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Bernard Hill

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Bernard Hill

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British actor (1944-2024)

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Bernard Hill was a British actor who worked in film, stage, and television. Born in Blackley, Manchester, on December 17, 1944, he began his professional career in 1975. He was educated at Manchester Metropolitan University and spoke English. Hill is noted for his roles in *The Lord of the Rings* film series and the 1997 film *Titanic*.

He was married to Marianna Hill and had two children. Hill’s acting career continued until his death on May 5, 2024, in Reydon.

Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1938
Works
17

Top works

  • A study of arrest patterns in the 1960's riots
  • A conversation with Robert B. Hill
  • The effects of topography and stratification on oceanic circulation
  • The illusion of Black progress
  • Inflation and the Black consumer

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Film & TV

Acting · 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…

Known for

  • The Moor — Thornley2024
  • Forever Young — Oscar Smith2024
  • The Responder — Tom Carson2022
  • Remembers…2022
  • Segunda oportunidad — Peter2018
  • Interlude: City of a Dead Woman — Richard2017
  • Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary — Narrator2016
  • Golden Years — Arthur2016
  • Inside CERN — Narrator2016
  • North v South — John Claridge2015

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Austria
Active from
1940-07-27

Discography

Official siteDiscogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
3

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,901x

  2. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    · 2016 · cited 23,655x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,787x

  4. <scp>CHARMM</scp>: A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations

    · 1983 · cited 13,595x

  5. <i>Planck</i> 2018 results

    · 2020 · cited 13,365x

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Key facts

Born
( 1944-12-17 ) 17 December 1944, Blackley , Manchester , England
Died
5 May 2024 (2024-05-05) (aged 79), Reydon , Suffolk , England
Education
Xaverian College
Alma mater
Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1970–2024

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Encyclopedic overview

Bernard Hill (17 December 1944 – 5 May 2024) was an English actor. He was known for his versatile performances in both television and film, and his career spanned over fifty years.

Hill first gained prominence as the troubled hard man Yosser Hughes in Alan Bleasdale's Play for Today drama The Black Stuff (1980) and its sequel serial Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), the latter earning him a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He received an additional nomination for his role as David Blunkett in the drama A Very Social Secretary (2005), for which he was also nominated for an International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actor. He also appeared on television in I, Claudius (1976), the BBC Television Shakespeare productions of Henry VI, Part 1, 2, and 3, and Richard III (all 1983), Great Expectations (1999), and Wolf Hall (2015).

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