As per our current Database, Bernard Hepton has been died on 27 July, 2018 at Dover, Kent, England, UK.
When Bernard Hepton die, Bernard Hepton was 93 years old.
| Popular As | Bernard Hepton |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 93 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Libra |
| Born | October 19, 1925 (Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK) |
| Birthday | October 19 |
| Town/City | Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Nationality | UK |
Bernard Hepton’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
Bernard Hepton was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.
Tall, dignified-looking Bernard Hepton enjoyed a six decade-long career on both stage and screen during which he particularly excelled at subtle, self-effacing or introspective roles. An electrician's son, Hepton grew up in the West Yorkshire city of Bradford.
Due to poor eyesight, he missed out on wartime service and instead trained as an aircraft engineer and draughtsman. A teenage 'fire watcher' during the war, he found his boredom relieved by a chance introduction to one act amateur plays.
Immediately fascinated by theatre, he joined the Bradford Civic Playhouse where he became a protégé of the director Esme Church. He then acted on stage in York for two years (in his own words tackling "anything from Agatha Christie to Shakespeare"), subsequently graduating to artistic director at the prestigious Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Liverpool Playhouse.
In 1964, Hepton joined the fledgling BBC2 hoping to produce and direct. Before long, however, he ended up in front of the cameras. Specialising in the classics (especially period drama) his many diverse faces over the years have included those of kindly clerk Wemmick in Great Expectations (1967), Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), Pallas in I, Claudius (1976) , Hungarian émigré Toby Esterhase, head of the 'Circus' surveillance section, in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) and Smiley's People (1982), Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls (1982) (whose author, J.
B. Priestley, incidentally grew up in the same street as Hepton), Sir Thomas Bertram in Mansfield Park (1983), rag and bone man Krook (who spontaneously combusts) in Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House (1985) and Mr.
Woodhouse in Jane Austen's Emma (1996). In addition to numerous one-off guest spots, Hepton also had two notable leading roles in the 70s: as the humane German Kommandant in Colditz (1972) and (on the other side of the wartime divide) as the Belgian cafe owner and resistance fighter Albert Foriet, aiding the escape of downed Allied airmen from occupied territory in Secret Army (1977).
