British actor Bernard Hill, who played in Titanic and The Lord of the Rings, died at the age of 79 on Sunday, his agent announced.
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Originally from Manchester, the general public knew Bernard Hill best for his role as Titanic captain Edward Smith in the eponymous film by James Cameron released in 1997 and a worldwide success.
The actor died early Sunday morning, his agent Lou told British media.
He also played the king of Rohan Théoden in the trilogy adapted from The Lord of the Rings, released in the early 2000s, and played numerous supporting roles, such as in At the Sources of the Nile, by Rob Rafelson (1990) or Judged Guilty (1999). ), by Clint Eastwood.
Revealed in the early 1980s for his role as an unemployed man in the multi-award winning television series Boys from the Blackstuff, Bernard Hill also had a prolific career on British television.
