On May 5, he died Bernard Hill. The English actor began his career with a play related to the Beatles and appeared for the first time on the big screen in Gandhi. This film, available in Spain on Movistar Plus+, in which a young Daniel Day Lewis also made his debut, won eight Oscars, and was three statuettes short (music, with the Indian master Ravi Shankar, and two technicians) from the plenary session. For Bernard Hill, presenting himself to the world with 11 Oscars out of a possible 11 would have been a very coherent way to launch his filmography.
So far, only three films have won 11 statuettes: Ben-Hur, Titanic and The Lord of the rings: The return of the King. Bernard Hill was in two of them. In Titanic, Hill was the captain willing to go down with his ship (despite his appearance as a veteran sailor, he was only 53 years old). In The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingBernard Hill gave life to the consumed Théoden, king of Rohan. No actor had ever appeared in two such award-winning films. and, unless there is a project of equal ambition on the near horizon, none will equal Hill’s record.
Where have we seen Bernard Hill?
Like every self-respecting English actor, Bernard Hill cut his teeth in BBC studios. When he was ready, he made the leap to Hollywood with the help of another pupil of the British network, Richard Attenborough (his brother, the totemic naturalist David, still works there). After GandhiBernard Hill shared the screen with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in the latest version of Mutiny on board.
In his filmography, Bernard Hill has rarely taken center stage. Titanic and The return of the King They are examples of a long-distance race in which Hill has had to hide behind the protagonists to have a chance. As exceptions to this rule, it is worth highlighting The boys & girls from County Clare either the Spanish The heart of the earthtoabout a mining revolt in the Huelva town of Río Tinto.
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