Highest rated movie: Barry Lyndon (1975)
Lowest rated movie: The Baroness and the Pig (2002)
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Movies starring Bernard Hepton have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.
Barry Lyndon - released in 1975 - is Bernard Hepton's highest rated movie, with a score of 85% based on 797 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Bernard Hepton is The Baroness and the Pig - released in 2002 - with a score of 38% based on 4 reviews.
Bernard Hepton (born 19 October 1925 - 27th July, 2018) was a British actor of stage, film and television.
Hepton was known as a particularly versatile character actor. He trained at Bradford Civic Theatre school under Esme Church along with actors such as Robert Stephens. He had extensive stage experience as an actor, under Sir Barry Jackson in addition to a spell as Artistic Director of Birmingham Rep and Liverpool Playhouse.
On television, he played Toby Esterhase in the BBC Television adaptations of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People, and George Smiley in the radio adaptations. He also played the Kommandant in Colditz (1972–74), and later appeared for the same production team as Albert Foiret in three seasons of Secret Army (1977–79). Before that he had made a guest appearance in an episode of the first series of Catweazle in 1970 where he played a naturalist. Other notable performances included Thomas Cranmer in both The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) and Elizabeth R (1971).
He played Sam Toovey in the 1989 television adaptation of Susan Hill's ghost story The Woman in Black.
On radio Hepton played the role of Albert, in Stranger In The Home by Alan Dapre, also the role of The Old Man in the Corner, the Baroness Orczy amateur, and mostly sedentary, sleuth in the BBC dramatizations called The Teahouse Detective (1998–2000).
His appearances in feature film were less frequent. He made a brief appearance as Thorpey, a gangster in the classic British film Get Carter (1971), and had another small role, as Milton Goldsmith, in Voyage of the Damned (1976).
He was a fan of the Rugby League team Hunslet Hawks and also played stand-off for them in the 1952/53 season, winning a Yorkshire Cup Medal.
Bernard Hepton has acted in films with Denholm Elliott, Philip Stone, Michael Hordern and Leonard Rossiter.
Bernard Hepton has worked with these film directors: Stanley Kubrick, Richard Attenborough, Mike Hodges and Stuart Rosenberg.
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