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Acting

Bernard Hill

Career: Active from 1973 to 2024, busiest in 2006 and 2008 with 5 main titles each.

Leading roles: 54
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Wolf Hall
85/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 57 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Bernard Hill Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Showbiz
0.3, average 1.2
Pop Culture
1.4, average 2.2
Physical Comedy
1.6, average 2.4
Coming of Age
2.4, average 3.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 7
Character Study 5
Social Commentary 5
Historical Drama 5
Gritty Realism 4
Political Intrigue 4
Feel-Good 3
Psychological Thriller 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Based on True Events 2
Quirky 2
Poignant 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

139

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

5 titles · average score 53

Forever Young

37

as Oscar Smith

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

56

In Memory Of

The Moor

36

as Thornley

The Responder

84

TV show · as Tom Carson

Remembers…

TV show

2010s

16 titles · average score 61

Interlude: City of a Dead Woman

as Richard

Golden Years

39

as Arthur

Wolf Hall

85

TV show · as Duke of Norfolk

North v South

31

as John Claridge

India's Frontier Railways

TV show · as Narrator - (Voice)

Unforgotten

80

TV show · as Father Robert Greaves

Hope and Wire

TV show · as Len Russell

From There to Here

72

TV show · as Samuel

Outpost 11

40

as Cranleigh

ParaNorman

76

as Judge Hopkins (voice)

Canoe Man

as John Darwin

The Kid

57

as Uncle David

2000s

35 titles · average score 62

Franklyn

56

as Esser

Sunshine

79

TV show · as George Crosby

Ocean Odyssey

as Narrator (voice)

Joy Division

53

as Dennis

A Very Social Secretary

as David Blunkett

Heatwave

as Narrator (voice)

The Grid

66

TV show

Wimbledon

61

as Edward Colt

Gothika

41

as Phil Parsons

The Boys & Girl from County Clare

57

as John Joe

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

91

as Théoden

The Scorpion King

46

as Philos

1990s

32 titles · average score 63

True Crime

62

as Warden Luther Plunkitt

The Titanic Chronicles

as (voice)

The Criminal

55

as Det. Insp. Walker

Titanic

79

as Captain Smith

The Ghost and the Darkness

59

as Dr. David Hawthorne

The Gambling Man

66

TV show · as Frank nickle

Madagascar Skin

63

as Flint

Dirtysomething

as Larry

Once Upon A Time In The North

TV show · as Len Tollit

Shepherd on the Rock

as Tam Ferrier

The Law Lord

as Martin Allport

From Moscow to Pietushki

79

as Readings (voice)

1980s

29 titles · average score 74

Shirley Valentine

67

as Joe Bradshaw

Drowning by Numbers

82

as Henry Madgett

Bellman and True

78

as Hiller

Boy Soldier

as Officer

No Surrender

73

as Bernard

The Bounty

69

as William Cole

The Chain

69

as Nick

Squaring the Circle

as Lech Walesa

Boys from the Blackstuff

81

TV show · as Yosser Hughes

as Vin Fox

The Black Stuff

77

as Yosser Hughes

Fox

TV show · as Vin Fox

1970s

21 titles · average score 74

The Spongers

as Sullivan

Pickersgill People

TV show · as Harry 'Sharky' Finn

Our Flesh and Blood

as Bernard Blincoe

Professional Foul

as Broadbent

BBC2 Play of the Week

TV show · as Carson / Broadbent

TV show · as Tom

Housewives' Choice

as Eric

I, Claudius

92

TV show · as Gratus

Village Hall

TV show · as Policeman

Hard Labour

68

as Edward Thornley

Second City Firsts

TV show · as Billy

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Graham / Sullivan

1960s

1 title · average score 80

Horizon

80

TV show · as Narrator