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Bernard Hill (born December 17 , 1944 in Manchester , England ) is an English Actor . Hill came to prominence in the Role of the unemployed Yosser Hughes , a working-class man ultimately driven to the edge by an uncaring system, in Alan Bleasdale 's BBC '' Play For Today '' '' The Black Stuff '' ( 1979 ) and its more famous series sequel (also by Bleasdale), '' Boys From The Blackstuff '' ( 1982 ). His character's much-repeated phrase "giz a job" became popular with protesters against Margaret Thatcher 's government, because of the high unemployment of the time. He also played the coroner Madgett in Peter Greenaway 's '' Drowning By Numbers '' ( 1988 ). In addition to TV roles Hill appeared on stage in both 'The Cherry Orchard' (Aldwych Theatre) and in the title role in 'Macbeth' (Leicester Haymarket Theatre, 1986). In James Cameron 's 1997 movie Blockbuster '' Titanic '' he plays the RMS ''Titanic'' 's Captain Edward J. Smith . Hill was cast in the role of King '' ( 2003 ). This makes him the only actor who can make the claim of having appeared in two of the three most Oscar-awarded movies of all times (''Titanic'' and ''Return of the King'', both of which were awarded 11 Oscars ) and the only two movies ever to earn more than one Billion US dollars at the box office. Interestingly, his birthdate coincides with ''Return of the King'''s release date. EXTERNAL LINK |
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