British actor Bernard Hillknown for his supporting roles in “Titanic“and the trilogy of”The Lord of the rings“He died on Sunday at the age of 79, his agent announced.
His agent, Lou Coulson, confirmed his death in the early hours of Sunday to the British media.
What movies did Bernard Hill make?
The most prominent role of Bernard Hill It was in the BBC series Boys from the Blackstuffwhere he played Yosser Hughes, a character who struggled – and often failed – to cope with unemployment in Liverpool.
His other roles were in the BBC series I, Claudius (1976), an appearance in Gandhi (1982), The Bounty (1984) with Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson,true crime (1999) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999). The scorpion king in 2002, the Tom Cruise film Valkyrie in 2008.
He played the captain Edward Smith in the film “Titanic”winner of an Oscar in 1997, and played Theodenking of Rohan, in two of the three films of “The Lord of the rings” directed by Peter Jackson.
Hill will appear in the second series of The Respondera BBC drama starring Martin Freeman that begins airing on Sunday.
He lived in Suffolk, a county in England, in the United Kingdom, with its capital in Ipswich, and is survived by his wife, Marianna Hill, and his son, Gabriel.
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