(5 May 2024)
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London – 27 March 2012
1. STILL IMAGE: Actor Bernard Hill arrives at the ‘Titanic 3D’ UK film premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, West London,. The re-launch of the Titanic 3D version comes 15 years after the film was a huge box office hit. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
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New York – 6 December 2002
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bernard Hill/actor:
"I’m taking my 7-year old and I’m taking my mother, who’s 82, so that’s not a bad spread really, and I know they’ll both enjoy it for their own reasons."
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London – 11 December 2002
3. Wide of Bernard Hill with wife and son
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bernard Hill/actor:
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Wellington New Zealand – 1 December 2003
5. Close of Bernard Hill talking to reporter
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New York, 13 January 2004
6. Setup shot Bernard Hill
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Bernard Hill, Actor (Cast Award for Lord of the Rings)
"I think we kind of raised the standard in a way, we certainly raised the standard in terms of how you can put together a major movie project and make it feel like a small budget movie, with the way people are treated. Pete ran a very egalitarian society as it were on the set, everybody felt that they had an equal privilege place as much as anybody else. There was no kind of hierarchy there at all."
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Los Angeles – 22 February 2004
8. STILL IMAGE: Cast members from "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," from left, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Liv Tyler, Billy Boyd, John Noble, Andy Serkis and Sean Astin, hold their awards they won for outstanding ensemble cast for a motion picture at the 10th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic – 7 July 2004
9. Various of Bernard Hill signing an autograph and getting into a car to go to the opening ceremony of the Karlovy Vary festival
STORYLINE:
Actor Bernard Hill, who delivered a rousing cry before leading his people into battle in “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" and went down with the ship as the captain in “Titanic,” has died.
Hill, 79, passed away Sunday morning, agent Lou Coulson said.
Hill joined “The Lord Of The Rings” franchise in the second film of the trilogy, 2002’s “The Two Towers,” as Théoden, King of Rohan. The following year, he reprised the role in “Return of the King,” a movie that won 11 Oscars.
In one of the film’s most memorable scenes, Hill’s character fires up his overmatched forces by delivering a battle cry on horseback that sends his troops thundering downhill toward the enemy and his own imminent death.
“Arise, arise, riders of Théoden!” Hill hollers. “Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin and the world’s ending! Death! Death! Death!”
In “Titanic," Hill played Captain Edward Smith, one of the only characters based on a real person in the 1997 tragic romance starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The film also won 11 Academy Awards.
As the doomed ship takes on water, Hill’s character silently retreats to the wheelhouse. As the cabin groans under the pressure of the waves, he takes a final breath and grabs the wheel as water bursts through the windows.
Hill first made a name for himself as Yosser Hughes in “Boys From the Blackstuff,” a 1982 British TV miniseries about five unemployed men.
He was nominated for an award in 1983 from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for the role, and the show won the BAFTA for best drama series.
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