Bernard Hill, who played King Theoden in the LoTR movies, has died aged 79. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68962192 Better known to Brits of a certain age as Yosser Hughes from gritty 1982 BBC drama Boys from the Blackstuff, about the struggles of working class Brits in Liverpool under the Thatcher government. Yosser was perpetually looking for work, with his signature lines of "Gizza job!" and "I can do that!"
Great actor. He accused American Brad Dourif of putting on a terrible American accent on LoTR after Dourif has spent the whole shoot doing a British one.
