Bruce Allpress
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25 August 1930
Bruce Allpress | |
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 As Aldor at Helm's Deep, 2000 | |
| Born | Bruce Robert Allpress 25 August 1930 Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Died | 23 April 2020 (aged 89) Auckland, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Actor |
Bruce Robert Allpress (25 August 1930 – 23 April 2020) was a New Zealand actor.
Allpress grew up in Dunedin, the second son of William and Gladys Allpress.[1][2] He began performing in the 1960s in a vaudeville minstrel show called the Cheeseman Singer Series.[1] 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.[3]
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,[1] as well as featuring alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the pirate adventure film Nate and Hayes.[4] He also played the role of a blind piano tuner in The Piano (1993) directed by Jane Campion.[5] 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.[3]
Allpress died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 89 on 23 April 2020.[6]
Awards
In 1981 and 1983, Allpress was awarded the Feltex Television Award for Best Actor in the series Jocko.[3]
