Bernard Hill passes away (1944 - 2024) (1) (UK) - UK News - 5/May/2024

Actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and Lord of the Rings, has died aged 79. (His birthday was last 17th December 2023).
(Tributes the next morning (2) here: • Bernard Hill passes aw...
He 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.
He died early on Sunday morning, his agent Lou Coulson confirmed.
His fiancé Alison and his son Gabriel were with him at the time.
Alan Bleasdale, who wrote Boys from the Blackstuff, said Hill's death was "a great loss and also a great surprise".
"It was an astonishing, mesmeric performance - Bernard gave everything to that and you can see it in all the scenes. He became Yosser Hughes."
He added: "I was desperate to work with him. Everything he did - his whole procedure for working, the manner in which he worked and his performance was everything that you could ever wish for.
"You always felt that Bernard would live forever. He had a great strength, physically and of personality."
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He will probably will be remembered the most today for the role of Théoden in Lord of the Rings, but there was much more. So many good characters and acting along with the story and cinematography into this trilogy, I had to wait more than 23 years from the original part ab animation film of LOTR 1978 (first book and a half) to see the impressive trilogy after 2001 onwards. And like the interaction of Théoden and Éowyn and the stellar cast and story and as said before the cinematography. Wish I had seen more of his work over the years, but glad to have seen him his acting and portrayals in what I have seen.
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Wikipedia:
Bernard Hill was an English actor. He is known for playing Théoden, King of Rohan, in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Captain Edward Smith in Titanic, and Luther Plunkitt, the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film True Crime.

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Only the BBC would give boys of the Black Stuff preference over that of Lord of the Rings, and Titanic,still that's the licence snatcher for you!