Bruce Robert Allpress (25 August 1930 – 23 April 2020) was a New Zealand actor.
Biography Allpress grew up in Dunedin, the second son of William and Gladys Allpress. He began performing in the 1960s in a vaudeville minstrel show called the Cheeseman Singer Series. He began working in television drama with a role in the series Hunter's Gold, then spent several years as a regular character on the late 1970s soap opera Close to Home.
He appeared in many television dramas and also presented on television and radio productions. In the mid-1980s, he was a regular on The Billy T. James Show, as well as featuring alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the pirate adventure film Nate and Hayes. He also played the role of a blind piano tuner in The Piano (1993) directed by Jane Campion. His most known role is Aldor, archer of Rohan that accidentally shot the first Uruk-hai from their army in the 2002 film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
Allpress died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 89 on 23 April 2020.
Awards In 1981 and 1983, Allpress was awarded the Feltex Television Award for Best Actor in the series Jocko.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1981 Beyond Reasonable Doubt Detective Sam Keith 1981 Bad Blood Inspector Calwell 1982 The Scarecrow Uncle Athol 1983 Nate and Hayes Mr. Blake 1985 Came a Hot Friday Don's Dad 1985 Should I Be Good? Neville Oswald 1987 Erebus: The Aftermath Peter Grundy TV miniseries1990 The Shrimp on the Barbie Mr. Ridley 1993 The Piano Blind Piano Tuner 2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Aldor 2006 Ozzie Charles "Charlie" Foster 2007 The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep Jock McGowan 2008Power Rangers Jungle FuryMaster Phant2011 No Rest for the Wicked Mr. Maxwell
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