It was Bernard Hill's performance as the jobless labourer and single father Yosser Hughes, in Alan Bleasdale’s BBC series Boys from the Blackstuff , that made him a television star. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty ImagesThe actor Bernard Hill, who has died aged 79, starred in two of the only three films to have won 11 Oscars.
Bleasdale wrote the part of Yosser especially for Hill, which the actor found “a bit worrying” since the character communicates largely through the medium of the head-butt. His target is usually other people: a police officer, a haughty foreman. Sometimes, driven to smash his forehead against a wall or the inside of the confessional , it is himself.
He was educated at St John Bosco primary school and Xaverian college. While training to become a quantity surveyor, he acted in an amateur theatre group, then applied to Rada in London Hill went with the production when it transferred to London, where it ran for a year and won the Evening Standard award for best musical
Other roles included a sergeant in Gandhi , a removal man in the comedy The Chain, the Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa in Tom Stoppard’s TV film Squaring the Circle and a coroner drawn into a murder plot in Peter Greenaway’s art house oddity Drowning By Numbers .
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