Bernard Hill died early on Sunday morning, his agent Lou Coulson confirmed. No cause has been given. He played Captain Edward Smith in the 1997 Oscar-winning film Titanic, and King Théoden in the Lord of the Rings.
His breakout role was in BBC TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff, where he portrayed Yosser Hughes, a character who struggled – and often failed – to cope with unemployment in Liverpool.
Hill will be seen in series two of The Responder, a BBC drama starring Martin Freeman, which begins airing on Sunday. Other roles included the 1976 BBC TV series I, Claudius, an appearance in 1982’s Gandhi, True Crime (1999), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999).
The Scorpion King in 2002 and the 2008 Tom Cruise film Valkyrie. The Manchester native was born into a family of coal miners.
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