The movie group has misplaced a beloved star.
Bernard Hill, who performed Captain Edward Smith in Titanic and King Théoden within the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, has died. He was 79.
The British actor handed away early Might 5, his agent confirmed to the BBC, including that the star’s fiancée Alison and his son Gabriel have been with him on the time. The reason for his demise was not launched.
Hill, initially from Manchester, England, started his onscreen appearing profession in his native U.Ok. within the late ’70s, showing totally on British TV exhibits resembling Crown Courtroom. He acquired solid in additional movies within the ’80s and ’90s, with roles in motion pictures resembling Gandhi and The Ghost and the Darkness, which additionally stars Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas, earlier than starring with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in James Cameron‘s Oscar-winning movie Titanic, launched in 1997.
In 2002, he joined Dwayne Johnson within the film The Scorpion King, taking part in Philos, and made his debut as King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the second movie in Peter Jackson‘s trilogy, based mostly on the books by the late J. R. R. Tolkien.