Bernard Hill

Bernard Hill (17 December 1944 – 5 May 2024) was an English actor. Among his many roles, he played Captain Edward Smith in ''Titanic'' (1997), Prison Warden Luther Plunkitt in Clint Eastwood's ''True Crime'' (1999), and Théoden, King of Rohan, in ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy (2002-2003). Hill also played roles in television dramas, including Yosser Hughes, the troubled "hard man" whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale's ''Boys from the Blackstuff'' in the 1980s, and more recently, as the Duke of Norfolk in the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's ''Wolf Hall''. Provided by Wikipedia