The renowned British actor Bernard Hill He died this Sunday, May 5, at the age of 79, as confirmed by his agent. Lou Coulson, to the BBC.
Hill began his acting career in 1973, acting in ‘Play for Today’, however, he gained greater worldwide recognition for his roles in ‘Titanic’ and ‘The Lord of the rings’.
In the first of these films he played the role of Captain Edward Smith, sharing the screen with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winsletin one of the highest-grossing films in all of history.
For his part, director Peter Jackson gave him the opportunity to play the king Theodon in the trilogy inspired by the books of JRR Tolkien.
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Precisely, with the ‘Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ He won the award for best supporting actor from the Screen Actors Guild.
Born in Blackley, northern England, on December 17, 1944, the actor grew up in a Catholic family of miners and from an early age he was inclined towards dramatic art, which led him to study at the Polytechnic School of Drama. from Manchester.
He also played Sergeant Putnam in the film ‘Gandhi’from 1982, directed by the filmmaker Richard Attenboroughwhile he played small roles in several drama shows on television, such as ‘I, Claudius’ (1976), as the character Gratus.
Among other jobs, he played Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, in the six-part BBC adaptation of writer Hilary Mantel’s novels, ‘Wolf Hall’.
With information from EFE
