Bernard Hill, who starred in Titanic and Lord of the （犯罪の）一味s, has died at the age of 79.
The actor, who played Captain Edward Smith in the 1997 Oscar-winning film, died in the 早期に hours of this morning, his スパイ／執行官 has said.
A father-of-one, he became known to a 世代 for his 描写 of the 戦闘の準備を整えた King Theoden in the Lord of the （犯罪の）一味s trilogy.
In the 過程 he starred in two films - Titanic and Lord of the （犯罪の）一味s: Return of the King - which won 11 Oscars?and crossed $1billion at the box office.
Hill had first become familiar to many in the UK for his emotive and bold 業績／成果 as?Yosser Hughes in the 1980s 演劇 Boys from the Blackstuff, a 役割 that also brought him to the attention of Hollywood.
His passing comes hours before he was 予定 to return to TV in ツバメ Freeman?演劇 The Responder, which 空気／公表するs on BBC One tonight.
尊敬の印s have been paid to the thespian, with 賞賛する for his 'incredible talent' and a career that saw him '炎 a rail across the 審査する'.?
Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC 演劇, said: 'Bernard Hill 炎d a 追跡する across the 審査する, and his long-継続している career filled with iconic and remarkable 役割s is a testament to his incredible talent.
'From Boys from the Blackstuff, to Wolf Hall, The Responder, and many more, we feel truly honoured to have worked w ith Bernard at the BBC. Our thoughts are with his loved ones at this sad time.'
Bernard Hill, pictured here in Lord of the （犯罪の）一味s: The Two Towers, played King Theoden in the epic fantasy trilogy
The thespian is 始める，決める to return to our 審査するs tonight in the ツバメ Freeman 演劇 The Responder. Pictured: Hill (left) on 始める，決める with Freeman (権利) during filming for the BBC programme
Bernard Hill rose to fame for his 業績／成果 as Yosser Hughes in the 1982 BBC 演劇 Boys from the Blackstuff
The actor also portrayed?Captain Edward Smith in the 1997 Oscar-winning film Titanic (pictured)
Bernard Hill had a 変化させるd 審査する career, coming to prominence 事実上の／代理 in small 負かす／撃墜する to earth 演劇s before going on to 星／主役にする in films that made billions 世界的な. Pictured: Hill at the 首相 of 'Gods Own Country' in Edinburgh in June 2017
Actress and musician Barbara Dickson, who starred with him in a musical based on the Beatles, was の中で those 支払う／賃金ing 尊敬の印, 述べるing him as a 'marvellous actor'.
と一緒に a photo of them together, she wrote: 'It's with 広大な／多数の／重要な sadness that I 公式文書，認める the death of Bernard Hill.
'We worked together in John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert, (by) Willy Russell marvellous show 1974-1975.
'A really marvellous actor. It was a 特権 to have crossed paths with him. RIP Benny x.'?
The Manchester native had a 変化させるd on-審査する career, coming to prominence 事実上の／代理 in small 現実主義の 演劇s, before going on to 星／主役にする in films that made billions 世界的な.
Born in Blackley into a family of coal 鉱夫s, he would …に出席する 事実上の／代理 school with Richard Griffiths, before moving into television.
After bit 役割s in Hard 労働 and the 貧しく received but now acclaimed I, Claudius, he?got his first major break in the 早期に 1980s.
The actor was cast as Yosser Hughes, a working class Liverpudlian in The 黒人／ボイコット Stuff and its sequel, Boys from the Blackstuff, in 1982.
His character was a man left struggling to do the 権利 thing after becoming 失業した and coined the phrase 'gizza 職業' - meaning 'give us a 職業' - became a ありふれた 差し控える の中で 抗議する人s in Thatcherite Britain.
The sequel won a Bafta for best 演劇 series in 1983 and was 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d as the seventh best TV show ever made on a British Film 学校／設ける 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） in 2000.?
The same year he took the 役割 of Sergeant Putnam in Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning biopic Gandhi, before starring in the BBC's 1983 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play Henry VI, in which he played the Duke of York.
The actor, pictured as King Theoden, won plaudits for his 描写 of the ageing 君主 trying to 保護する his people from t he 軍隊s of evil?
The actor also portrayed the Duke of Norfolk in the 2015 adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. Pictured: Bernard Hill on the Wolf Hall 始める，決める in Gloucester in 2014
Hill also won plaudits for his 描写 of Captain Edward Smith in 1997 演劇 Titanic. Pictured: The actor on 始める，決める as Captain Smith
The actor pictured with Steven MacKintosh in From There to Here, a 2013 series about the アイルランド共和国軍 Manchester 爆破?
Bernar d Hill pictured with his wife Marianna Hill at the 首相 of the Lord of the （犯罪の）一味s: The Two Towers in 2002
Hill played Praetorian Guard Gratus in the British television 演劇 I, Claudius about the 統治する of the Roman emperor Claudius
The Manchester na tive will 星／主役にする opposite ツバメ Freeman in the second 一連の The Responder, which 空気／公表するs on the BBC tonight
He would later be cast as Captain Edward Smith in James Cameron's gargantuan film, Titanic.?
The 1997 movie saw him play the captain of the 悪名高い 大型船 on what would be its maiden and only voyage across the 大西洋, before going 負かす／撃墜する with the ship after it 攻撃する，衝突する an iceberg.
It 示すd the start of a late career renaissance for Hill, who was then chosen by Peter Jackson in the 役割 of King Theoden in the Lord of the （犯罪の）一味s trilogy.
The actor was 賞賛するd for his 描写 of the 戦闘の準備を整えた King of Rohan who valiantly fights to save his people from the 軍隊s of evil.
Hollywood kept calling, with Hill making 外見s in Dwayne Johnson 乗り物 The Scorpion King, Halle Berry horror film Gothika and the tennis-主題d romantic comedy Wimbledon.
He continued to make 正規の／正選手 外見s on British television, before 存在 cast in the 2015 BBC 演劇 Wolf Hall.?
An adaptation of Hilary Mantel's historical fiction about the rise of Thomas Cromwell, Hill portrayed the Duke of Norfolk in the first 一連の the show, before 存在 取って代わるd by Timothy Spall in the second.
He had been 予定 to return to our 審査するs once more tonight, with a 役割 in ツバメ Freeman's BBC show The Responder.
The thespian lived in Suffolk and is 生き残るd by his wife Marianna Hill and their son Gabriel.
