A versatile character player, the Manchester-born Bernard Hill has been delivering fine performances on stage, on TV and in films since his stage debut in Willy Russell's "John, Paul, George, Ringo . . . and Bert" in 1974. The actor earned widespread attention in his homeland for his portrayal of a road worker in the black comedy "Boys from the Black Stuff" (BBC, 1982).
International audiences and movie buffs may recall Hill as the reticent, reluctant computer systems analyst and hero of "Bellman & True" (1987), the coroner investigating the deaths of three men in "Drowning By Numbers" (1988; released in the USA in 1991), the boorish husband of "Shirley Valentine" (1989) and Dr. Livingston in "Mountains of the Moon" (1990). More recently, he dazzled as the eccentric Flint in "Madagascar Skin" (1995) and anchored "The Mill on the Floss" (PBS, 1997) as the father whose pride leads to tragedy. In "Titanic" (1997), Hill was almost unrecognizable behind snow white hair and beard as the doomed ship's captain. He found subsequent high-profile roles in films the fantasy genre, playing wizened rulers in "The Scorpion King" (2002) and two films in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "The Two Towers" (2002) and "Return of the King" (2003).
Vigilantes beat, kick suspected enticerThe Republican - MassLive.com, MABy STEPHANIE BARRY and GEORGE GRAHAM Residents of Marion Street - a tired but tight-knit pocket of the city's Hill-McKnight neighborhood - took a page from 1980s subway vigilante Bernard Goetz last Friday when they spotted a man allegedly trying to
Auburn addressing athletic department vacanciesal.com, ALAlthough Auburn advertised for Starks' position externally, Jacobs said the academic role will be filled internally by associate AD Bernard Hill, one of Auburn's compliance supervisors. Richard's duties will be split among three current administrators.
Engineering News-Record Names Bernard Amadei, Founder of Engineers PR Newswire (press release), NYNEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Engineering News-Record (ENR), McGraw-Hill Construction's prestigious publication and website and part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) , today presented its Award of Excellence to Bernard Amadei,
West End Production of A View From the Bridge to Tour After London RunPlaybill.com, NYIt was last seen in the West End in 1995 in a production at the Strand Theatre (now the Novello), in a production that featured Bernard Hill. Prior to that, it was revived at the National with Michael Gambon in 1987. This new production is directed by
Happy families: freelance family businessTelegraph.co.uk, United KingdomThough he lacks Bernard Hill’s manic desperation, he does share his ill-fated tendency to set himself challenges he isn’t quite up to, in this case cleaning all the windows in the house before Top Gear. So he does the car instead, with rather cursory
Misunderstood Masterpieces 03.10.09: Titanic411mania.com, TXAnyway, while Molly Brown sasses at everyone around her because she's an impetuous bourgeois American, Captain Theoden (Bernard Hill) surveys the ocean and puts the ship in high gear. As the wind whips over the deck of the Titanic thanks to its
Franklyn ReviewContactmusic.com, UKHaving said all this, the ambition and strangeness of the film is laudable and there are uniformly decent performances from the ensemble cast, with Bernard Hill perhaps being the pick of the bunch. Sam Riley and Eva Green are two of our more
Burnley councillors condemned for poor attendanceLancashire Telegraph, UKAnd Daneshouse and Stoneyholme councillor Zahir Ahmed and Coun Bernard Hill, who represents Rosegrove with Lowerhouse, have a 33 per cent turnout rate. Coun Allen Harris, a Lib-Dem in Brunshaw, who has a 40 per cent attendance rate, blamed his absences
The Rock Action 3-Pack – Blu-ray ReviewMonsters and Critics.comHe is joined by Michael Clarke Duncan, Steven Brand, Kelly Hu, and Bernard Hill. The film was directed by Chuck Russell and written by Jonathan Hales, Stephen Sommers, William Osborne, David Hayter. The PG-13 friendly plot sees Mathayus tackling his
From The Sunday TimesTimes Online, UKIn present-day London, a depressed art student (Eva Green) videos her suicide attempts, a lovelorn bloke (Sam Riley) yearns for his childhood sweetheart and a church warden (Bernard Hill) searches for his missing son. In the midst of all this is
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