- Born
- Died
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Bernard Hill was an English actor. He was well recognized for playing King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Captain Edward Smith in Titanic, and Luther Plunkitt, the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime. Hill was also known for playing roles in television dramas, including Yosser Hughes, the troubled "hard man" whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale's groundbreaking Boys from the Blackstuff in the 1980s, and more recently, as the Duke of Norfolk in the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- SpouseMarianna Hill (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenGabriel Hill
- Believed while filming The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) that castmate Brad Dourif was actually English as Dourif never stopped using the accent. When Dourif finally began using his American accent Hill thought it was fake and accused Dourif of the worst fake accent he had ever heard.
- Is the only actor to star in two billion dollar films that have both won 11 Oscars (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and Titanic (1997)).
- In his commentary on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Extended Edition DVD, he admits that during the course of shooting he first broke his sternum, then had his ear slashed open by a sword.
- Is currently a purple belt in karate
- Before being cast as King Theoden in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, director Peter Jackson considered Hill for the role of the wizard Gandalf, which went to Sir Ian McKellen.
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