“I go to my fathers. And even in their mighty company I shall not now be ashamed.”
Ride forth, and fear no darkness.
His speech prior to the charge of the Rohirrim at Pelanor Fields is my favorite moment of the movie trilogy.
And his gallop across the front line, sword striking the warriors’ weapons, was his idea. Superb sequence, that.
IIRC improvised by him
Also highly thought of in the UK as a TV actor, particularly the desperate jobless Yosser in Boys from the Black Stuff
I liked his small but pivotal role in I, Claudius.
It was nearly curtains for Claudius for a minute there.
Also in The Bounty
NM Mistake.
His last TV appearance came out the day he died, as the frail but still belligerent father of the central character, a slightly bent copper under desperate strain (Martin Freeman), in The Responder.
Here is a picture Viggo took of him, I presume during the filming of the movies.
