Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill ( born December 17, 1944 in Manchester ) is a British film, television and theater actor.
Life
Bernard Hill began his acting career in an amateur theater in Salford, near Manchester. His first television role came in 1973 in Mike Leigh TV film Hard Labour. In 1974, his theater debut in London's West End in Willy Russell's Beatles musical John, Paul, George, Ringo ... & Bert, in which he played John Lennon.
Since then, Bernard Hill is a busy actor in film, television and theater in the UK and in the U.S., who has worked with renowned directors such as Richard Attenborough, James Cameron, Peter Greenaway and Peter Jackson. One of his first major roles he played in 1976 in the multi-award -winning British miniseries I, Claudius, Emperor and God. After numerous roles in British television productions, including the Shakespeare film adaptations of the BBC, he experienced his real breakthrough in 1982 with the five-part series Boys from the Black Stuff. For his portrayal of the unemployed worker Liverpool Yosser Hughes Hill in 1983 was awarded the Press Guild Award for Achievement of the Decade and a BAFTA nomination for Best TV actor.
Since the mid- 80s, Hill focuses almost entirely on the film work and is rarely seen in television productions. Among his best known films include Peter Greenaway's conspiracy of women, Shirley Valentine - Good-bye, my dear husband, The Bounty and The Ghost and the Darkness. He gained final international fame through his roles as Captain Smith in Titanic film version of James Cameron and as King Théoden in the second and third part of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: the return of the King. For this film, he received the 2004 together with his fellow actors the Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble performance. Hill has so in two of the three films only actor ( Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ) played, who each won eleven Oscars.
Bernard Hill lives in Suffolk. He is married and has a son.