WEB DESK: The British actor Bernard Hill, best known for supporting roles in “Titanic” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, has died, his family announced on Sunday.
The star, Bernard Hill, who played Captain Edward Smith in Titanic and King Théoden in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy died at the age of 79.As confirmed to the media by his agent, the British asset to the industry had his last breaths besides his fiancée Alison and his son Gabriel and died early May 5.
The cause of death hasn’t been revealed.
Hill’s acting career spanned more than five decades, starting in the late ‘70sHill found fame in his home country starring in 1982’s “Boys from the Blackstuff,” a gritty drama about unemployed men that become symbolic of the Thatcher era.But it was in smaller roles, lending quiet dignity to some of the most successful films in cinema history, that he will be most familiar to audiences.
In James Cameron’s 1997 multi-Oscar winning “Titanic”, Hill plays the ship’s Captain Edward Smith as a man haunted by his role in the tragedy and ultimately resigned to his fate.
