British actor Bernard Hillknown for his roles in the films ‘Titanic’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’died this Sunday at the age of 79, according to his representative, Lou Coulson, to the British network ‘BBC’.
Hill played Captain Edward Smith in the Oscar-winning film about the ocean liner tragedy in 1997 and also in king Theoden in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy.
Among other performances, stands out that of Yosser Hughes, a character whose life falls apart in the television program “Boys from the Blackstuff” of the past 80s.
Born in Blackley (northern England) on December 17, 1944, the actor grew up in a Catholic family of miners and from an early age he was inclined towards dramatic art, which led him to study at the Polytechnic School of Drama. from Manchester.
He also played Sergeant Putnam in the 1982 film ‘Gandhi’, directed by filmmaker Richard Attenborough, while he played small roles in several dramatic television programs, such as ‘I, Claudius’ (1976), as the character Gratus. . Among other jobs, he played Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, in the BBC’s six-part adaptation of writer Hilary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall.
Source: Lasexta
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