Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill
Born	December 17, 1944 (1944-12-17) (age 62) Manchester, England
Years active	1975 - present

Bernard Hill (born December 17, 1944, Manchester, England, UK) is a British actor of film, stage and television. He attended Xaverian College although at the time it was known as "Xaverian School". Hill is reportedly an experienced horseback rider and a purple belt in karate.^{[citation needed]} He also attended Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama at the same time as Richard Griffiths. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 770 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (856 × 667 pixel, file size: 251 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... Xaverian College is a Catholic sixth form college in the English city of Manchester. ... For other uses, see Karate (disambiguation). ... Richard Griffiths (born 31 July 1947) is a Tony award winning English actor who has appeared on stage, film and television. ...

Biography

Career

Hill came to prominence in the role of the unemployed Yosser Hughes, a working-class man ultimately driven to the edge by an uncaring system, in Alan Bleasdale's BBC Play for Today The Black Stuff (1979) and its more famous series sequel (also by Bleasdale), Boys from the Blackstuff (1982). His character's much-repeated phrase "giz a job" became popular with protesters against Margaret Thatcher's government, because of the high unemployment of the time. Previously, he had taken smaller parts in a number of British television dramas, notably appearing as the no-nonsense Roman soldier Gratus in I, Claudius (1976). He also played the Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York in the BBC's 1982 productions of Shakespeare's Henry VI plays. Also on TV, he played the part of Tom Higdon in The Burston Rebellion (1985). A function is part of an answer to a question about why some object or process occurred in a system that evolved or was designed with some goal. ... Yosser Hughes is a fictional character from Alan Bleasdales 1982 television series Boys from the Blackstuff. The character was played by Bernard Hill. ... Alan Bleasdale (born March 23, 1946 in Liverpool, England, UK) is a British television dramatist, best known for several powerful social drama serials based around the lives of ordinary people. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... The Play for Today logo, seen here in the opening title sequence from 1976. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama serial of five episodes, originally transmitted from October 10 to November 7, 1982 on BBC TWO. The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, and was a sequel to a television play called The Black Stuff, which he had originally... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (née Roberts; born 13 October 1925) served as British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 until 1990, being the first and only woman to hold either post. ... I, Claudius, 1976 was a BBC Television adaptation of Robert Gravess I Claudius and Claudius the God. ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about Richard, Duke of York, father of King Edward IV. For the article about Edward IVs son who was imprisoned in the Tower of London see: Richard, Duke of York (Prince in the Tower). ... The Burston Strike School was at the centre of the longest running strike in British history, between 1914 and 1939. ...

In addition to TV roles, Hill appeared on stage in both 'The Cherry Orchard' (Aldwych Theatre) and in the title role in 'Macbeth' (Leicester Haymarket Theatre, 1986). He played the coroner Madgett in Peter Greenaway's film Drowning by Numbers (1988). In James Cameron's 1997 movie blockbuster Titanic he plays the RMS Titanic's Captain Edward J. Smith. He appeared as Egeus in the 1999 film version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', this version being set in 19th Century Tuscany, alongside such celebrities as Kevin Kline, Calista Flockhart, Christian Bale, Michelle Pfeiffer and others. He has been in three different versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh-born English [1] film director. ... Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 motion picture directed by Peter Greenaway. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... For other persons named James Cameron, see James Cameron (disambiguation). ... Blockbuster, as applied to film or theater, denotes a very popular and/or successful production. ... Titanic is a 1997 American romantic drama film directed, written, produced and edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. ... For other uses, see Titanic (disambiguation). ... For the recipient of the Victoria Cross see Edward Smith (VC); for the science fiction writer, see E. E. Smith. ... Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor. ... Calista Kay Flockhart (born on November 11, 1964) is an Emmy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress, primarily on soap operas and television. ... Christian Charles Philip Bale (also known professionally as Christian Morgan Bale; born 30 January 1974) is an acclaimed British[2][3] Actor who is known for his roles in the films Newsies, American Psycho, Shaft, Equilibrium, The Machinist, Batman Begins, and The Prestige, among others. ... Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning, BAFTA-winning American actress. ... For other uses, see A Midsummer Nights Dream (disambiguation). ...

Hill was cast in the role of King Théoden of Rohan in the second and third of Peter Jackson's movies based on Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). When he was due to leave the set of The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson gave Hill two gifts, Théoden's helmet and sword Herugrim. In J. R. R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings, Théoden was the seventeenth King of Rohan, and last of the Second Line. ... For other uses, see Rohan (disambiguation). ... For other persons named Peter Jackson, see Peter Jackson (disambiguation). ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Tolkien redirects here. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the Peter Jackson films. ... The following list of weapons of Middle-earth includes all weaponry directly taken from J. R. R. Tolkiens fantasy legendarium. ...

Before casting him as King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings, director Peter Jackson considered Hill for the part of Gandalf. Hill was also nominated for the award of 'best actor' at the 2006 BAFTA Television Awards for his portrayal of David Blunkett in the one-off satirical drama A Very Social Secretary (2005). However, Mark Rylance won the award for his role in The Government Inspector. In 2004 Hill read famous quotations about religion and atheism in the documentary Atheism: A Brief History of Disbelief, written by Jonathan Miller. For other uses, see Gandalf (disambiguation). ... The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTAs — or, to differentiate them from the BAFTA Film Awards, the BAFTA Television Awards — are the most prestigious awards given in the British television industry, analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States. ... David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mark Rylance (born January 18, 1960) is an internationally well-known actor and theatre director. ... Cover of the first edition The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General (Russian: or Revizor), is a satirical play by the Russian playwright and novelist Nikolai Gogol, published in 1836 and revised for the 1842 edition. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... This article is about the British physician, theatre and opera director, and television presenter; for other people named Jonathan Miller, see Jonathan Miller (disambiguation). ...

Bernard Hill is the only actor who appeared in two of the three most Oscar-awarded movies of all times, Titanic and The Return of the King, both of which were awarded 11 Oscars (the first was Ben-Hur) and the first of two actors to have been in two movies earning more than one billion US dollars at the box office (the other being Orlando Bloom, his Rings co-star). His birthdate coincides with The Return of the King's release date. Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Ben-Hur is a 1959 epic film directed by William Wyler, and is the third version of Lew Wallaces novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880). ... One thousand million (1,000,000,000) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. ... Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom[1] (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor. ...

Bernard Hill was the Leading actor in the film Exodus which was made in Margate. Directed by Penny Woolcock, it will be broadcast on Channel 4 and released in theaters in 2007. Exodus is a 1960 epic war film made by Alpha and Carlyle Productions and distributed by United Artists. ... Margate is a town in Thanet, Kent, England (population about 60,000). ...

External links

• Bernard Hill at the Internet Movie Database