RIP Bernard Hill

Actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and Lord of the Rings, has died aged 79.

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In The Black Stuff (1980) as Yosser Hughes, he was brilliant.

Sad. And it’s crazy cause just yesterday I was watching him in my rewatch of The Two Towers…

And I have fond memories of watching Titanic when I was young and I really like(d) him in that one too.

Strange, him dying a few weeks after Vincent Freill, both starred as father and son in Restless Natives (1985).

I just saw him tonight in the UK starring in The Responder (2024), Series 2.

Can't imagine anybody else playing King Theoden in the LOTR movies. He was great in The Ghost and the Darkness as the doctor. Godspeed, Bernard.

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Loved, loved, loved, loved, loved him him in Titanic...I think he and Billy Zane were both worthy of supporting actor nominations.

Will watch Gandhi this week out of respect.

He became Theoden in LOTR. He did a great job of making King Theoden be real.

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There’s a season 2?

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I really liked him there. He does have the right British gravitas and a sense of propriety.