<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Marianne Hill </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Bernard Hill (born 17 December 1944) is an English film, stage and television actor . He is known for playing Yosser Hughes, the troubled' hard man' whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale's groundbreaking 1980s TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff and, more recently, as the Duke of Norfolk in the BBC adaptation of Dame Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall . He is also known for roles in blockbuster films, including Captain Edward Smith in Titanic, King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and Luther Plunkitt, the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime . </P> <P> Hill was born in Blackley, Manchester . He was brought up in a Catholic family of miners . Hill attended Xaverian College, and then Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama at the same time as Richard Griffiths . He graduated with a diploma in theatre in 1970 . </P>

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