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Bruce Allpress is a Actor Néo-Zélandais born on 25 august 1930
Bruce Allpress (born August 25, 1930) is a New Zealand actor. He has been in many television dramas and also presenting 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. His most known role is Aldor, archer of Rohan that shot the first uruk-hai from their army in the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
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Birth name Bruce Robert Allpress
Nationality Nouvelle zelande
Birth 25 august 1930
Death 23 april 2020 (at 89 years)
Nationality Nouvelle zelande
Birth 25 august 1930
Death 23 april 2020 (at 89 years)
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The Water Horse (2007)
, 1h51Directed by Jay Russell
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Films about magic and magicians, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Films about dragons, Children's films
Actors Emily Watson, Alex Etel, David Morrissey, Craig Hall, Ben Chaplin, Brian Cox
Roles Jock McGowan
Rating64%
In present-day Scotland, an American tourist couple go into a bar where they meet an old man who tells them a story about the Loch Ness Monster.
Cave In (2003)
Directed by Rex Piano
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Mimi Rogers, Ted Shackelford, Bruce Allpress
Roles 'Cappy' Shuster
Rating41%
Quand quatre hommes se retrouvent pris au piège au fond d'une mine après que les parois se soient effondrées, Pat Bogan met tout en œuvre pour les en sortir. Si cette mission lui tient particulièrement à cœur, c'est parce que son mari et son fils font partie des victimes.
, 2h59Directed by Peter Jackson
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Middle-earth films, Mise en scène d'une plante
Actors Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett
Roles Aldor
Rating84%
Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee continue their journey to Mordor to destroy the One Ring by throwing it into Mount Doom. They are attacked in the night by Gollum, former owner of the Ring, but they capture him. Sympathising with Gollum for their shared burden, Frodo asks Gollum to lead them safely to Mordor, despite Sam’s objections. Meanwhile, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli pursue the Uruk-hai who kidnapped their friends Merry and Pippin. The Uruk-hai are slaughtered by the Rohirrim army of Rohan, but the two Hobbits escape into Fangorn Forest where they meet the Ent Treebeard. Aragorn’s group later meet the Rohirrim who have been banished by their king Théoden, who is manipulated by Saruman’s servant Grima Wormtongue. Tracking the Hobbits in Fangorn, Aragorn’s group encounter a resurrected Gandalf who perished in Moria, but was revived to help save Middle Earth.
The Piano (1993)
, 2h1Directed by Jane Campion
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Piano, Films about disabilities, Political films, Personne sourde ou muette, Sign-language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Harvey Keitel, Holly Hunter, Anna Paquin, Sam Neill, Kerry Walker, Ian Mune
Roles Blind Piano Tuner
Rating74%
A mute Scotswoman named Ada McGrath is sold by her father into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman named Alisdair Stewart, bringing her young daughter Flora with her. The voice that the audience hears in the opening narration is "not her speaking voice, but her mind's voice". Ada has not spoken a word since she was six years old and no one, including herself, knows why. She expresses herself through her piano playing and through sign language, for which her daughter has served as the interpreter. Flora later dramatically tells two women in New Zealand that her mother has not spoken since the death of her husband who died as a result of being struck by lightning. Ada cares little for the mundane world, occupying herself for hours every day with the piano. Flora, it is later learned, is the product of a relationship with a teacher with whom Ada believed she could communicate through her mind, but who "became frightened and stopped listening," and thus left her.
The Rainbow Warrior (1993)
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sam Neill, Jon Voight, Lucy Lawless, Kerry Fox, Bruno Lawrence, Peter Hambleton
Roles Hec Crene
Rating55%
Film is based on the true story of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, which was bombed in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985, when it was preparing for a Pacific voyage to protest French nuclear testing. The film chronicles the police investigation to discover what happened to the ship and who was responsible.
The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990)
, 1h27Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Cheech Marin, Emma Samms, Vernon Wells, Bruce Spence, Carole Davis, Terence Cooper
Roles Mr. Ridley
Rating56%
Australian heiress Alexandra Hobart's (Emma Samms) father has disapproved of every boyfriend she has brought home to meet him, including her burly, life-of-the-party fiance, Bruce (Vernon Wells). After a disastrous birthday party, Alexandra decides to challenge her father (Terence Cooper) with the worst boyfriend she can find. She hires a down-on-his luck waiter from a Mexican restaurant in Sydney, Australia named Carlos (Cheech Marin) to masquerade as her new boyfriend to persuade her father into allowing her to marry Bruce. Needing the money to save the failing restaurant, Carlos agrees to the ruse; acting loud, belligerent and obnoxious, shocking everyone in the Hobart household and their high-society friends at a party with his crude behavior, warranting unwanted attention from Alex's eccentric cousin, Maggie (Jeanette Cronin) in the process. After a while however Alex discovers that in spite of his rather crass and unrefined ways Carlos is actually a very caring and sensitive person and she even finds herself falling for him. Alex's father, however, doesn't buy the act, and hires a detective to photograph Bruce and Alex's best friend, Dominique (Carole Davis) in a compromising position. Carlos gets wind of the infidelity and attepting to save Alexandra from being hurt ends up assaulted by Bruce. Alex outs Bruce and Dominique at a party before racing to the airport to mend fences with Carlos. Hoping she's not too late, Alex has the plane called back to the airport by her father. Realizing how noble Carlos is, Mr Hobart invests in Carlos' restaurant thereby saving it from closing.
Came a Hot Friday (1985)
, 1h41Directed by Ian Mune
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Billy T James, Marshall Napier, Don Selwyn, Bruce Allpress, Roy Billing, Prince Tui Teka
Rating64%
In rural New Zealand in 1949, Wes Pennington (Peter Bland) and his partner Cyril (Philip Gordon) are out to run a horse-racing scam for as long as they can. They are inveterate gamblers who have joined forces to trick local bookies, by taking advantage of delayed broadcasts of horse races. After arriving in small town Tainuia Junction, Wes and Cyril get involved in a bootlegging ring, arson and murder. Among a group of local eccentrics, they also meet the Tainuia Kid (Billy T. James), a Maori who believes himself to be a Mexican bandito. He becomes a kind of protector for the duo.
Nate and Hayes (1983)
, 1h39Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe, Jenny Seagrove, Max Phipps, Grant Tilly, Bruce Allpress
Roles Mr. Blake
Rating61%
The film tells the story of missionary Nathaniel "Nate" Williamsen (O'Keefe), taken to an island mission with his fiancee Sophie (Seagrove). Their ship, the Rona, is captained by the roguish Bully Hayes (Jones), who also takes a liking to Sophie. When Sophie is kidnapped by slave trader Ben Pease (Max Phipps), "Nate" teams with Hayes in order to find her. The plot is essentially a set-up for a rousing series of Indiana Jones style action set pieces, including a sequence on a suspension bridge which greatly resembles the climax of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, though Nate and Hayes was released a year earlier.
Bad Blood (1982)
, 1h45Directed by Mike Newell
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jack Thompson, Carol Burns, Denis Lill, Marshall Napier, Bruce Allpress, John Bach
Roles Inspector Calwell
Rating64%
In October 1941, Stan Graham, a Westland smallholder, develops a persecution complex and starts to threaten his neighbours. They put up with it for a while but things become intolerable. One day a party of four policemen arrive to confiscate his firearms. This causes a flashpoint for him - he loves his guns and is not going to hand them over. He shoots all the cops and, in the ensuing altercations, three more locals before heading to the hills. A manhunt composed of police, army and homeguard is organised and delivers Graham's come-uppance. Based upon a true event that happened around the present community of Kowhitirangi, out of Hokitika.
The Scarecrow (1982)
, 1h28Directed by Sam Pillsbury
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors John Carradine, Bruce Allpress, Jonathan Hardy, Martyn Sanderson, Greer Robson-Kirk, Roy Billing
Roles Uncle Athol
Rating57%
One night a girl is slain in the woods of a small town, two teenagers, Sam and Les, inadvertently cross the killer's path while robbing the hens of Victor the school bully. According to Sam Edwards the film is not as bleak as the novel. Small-town New Zealand in the 1950s is puritanical on the surface but depraved to its depths.
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1980)
, 2h9Directed by John Laing
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Documentary films about law, Films about capital punishment
Actors David Hemmings, John Hargreaves, Tony Barry, Martyn Sanderson, Mark Hadlow, Grant Tilly
Roles Detective Sam Keith
Rating63%