‘Titanic’, ‘Lord of the Rings’ actor Bernard Hill dies
Entertainment Desk
Actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in “Titanic” and “Lord of the Rings”, has died aged 79.
He died early on Sunday morning, his agent Lou Coulson confirmed.
Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd, the actors who played the hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, paid tribute to their co-star at Comic Con in Liverpool.
Hill played Captain Edward Smith in the 1997 Oscar-winning film and King Théoden in the Lord of the Rings.
His breakout role was in 1982 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, who was from Manchester and lived in Suffolk, was due to return to TV screens in series two of The Responder, a BBC drama starring Martin Freeman, which begins airing on Sunday.
