Bernard Hill

Funkfingers

Bernard Hill, actor, 79.

Probably best known for film roles in Titanic and Lord Of The Rings. To me, he will always be Yosser Hughes in The Black Stuff and The Boys From The Blackstuff.

Kittyfrisk

Yes, very sad. Shame that he only relatively recently started getting the quality roles that he deserved.
"Gizza job. Go on, Gizza job."
TV at it's hardest hitting, social commentating best. RIP Bernard/Yosser.

steveledzep

RIP   "Giz us a job.....I can do that"   Loved that series.

equalsql

steveledzep said:

RIP   "Giz us a job.....I can do that"   Loved that series.

He was brilliant in that. Comedic and absolutely heartbreaking at the same time.
RIP you legend. 

theatreanchor

This is sad news. Iconic actor. He will be remembered. 

sev112

equalsql said:

steveledzep said:

RIP   "Giz us a job.....I can do that"   Loved that series.

He was brilliant in that. Comedic and absolutely heartbreaking at the same time.
RIP you legend. 

Heartbreaking,   I wonder how many people actually watched rather than just knowing the phrase.  His situation was heartbreaking, he couldn’t do the jobs, but had kids/family to feed, but was at and past his wits end.  But very few appreciated that.  

I found it the most harrowing aspects of a play/series which was full of similar feelings

richh

I'm desperate... I'm desperate Dan!

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

Sad news. The Horn Of Helm Hammerhand will sound in the Deep no more....

RIP

littlegreenman

Definitely met a few real life Yossers, and Shake Hands in my time. Scary in a way that these were not charicatures, but just representations of real life in deprived Liverpool back then! And he absolutely nailed it.

RIP Bernard

Devil#20

equalsql said:

steveledzep said:

RIP   "Giz us a job.....I can do that"   Loved that series.

He was brilliant in that. Comedic and absolutely heartbreaking at the same time.
RIP you legend. 

It may have been a drama but he acted it so well it was heartbreaking to watch his mental deterioration. Yosser was probably my favourite ever characters on screen along with the other psychotic headcase Begbie (Robert Carlyle). 

Bellycaster

I remember watching Boys From the Black Stuff when it was first broadcast in 1982. I was 10 and I recall it being quite uncomfortable viewing and weird. I was probably too young to appreciate it's political relevance at the time.

For about 30 years after, I never realised BFTBS was a follow up of the same characters from a 1980 TV play called Black Stuff. I watched that on YouTube and can recommend it if you haven't seen it.

R.I.P.

ZenOvertone

Great actor RIP, he was also in "Fox" with loads of other great actors before Boys from the Blackstuff (Larry Lamb, Peter Vaughan and more...)

57Deluxe

...he always looked in bad health to me... But forever the iconic T Shirt motif

RIP

DavidRees

Bellman and True is worth a watch, a very disturbing performance ... 

darthed1981

As long as people are watching movies, this will be a classic scene... RIP Bernard...

Jfingers

RIP Yosser. Watched you crumble as I was leaving school in Thatcher's Britain. I'll never forget that performance.

maw4neu

Genius . . . ! !   

sev112

Still think that people get hung up on “Giz a job”, when the most powerful line is the one after “I can do that; I can lay bricks, I can build walls”.  That’s how we met him and he would do anything whether he could or not,  that was where he had got to and past his wits end.