Bernard Hepton is a British actor and director of stage, film and television
Background
Hepton was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. On television, he played Caiaphas in the 1969 Dennis Potter play Son of Manitoba, Toby Esterhase in the British Broadcasting Corporation Television adaptations of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley"s People, and George Smiley in the radio adaptations.
Career
He trained at Bradford Civic Theatre school under Esme Church along with actors such as Robert Stephens. He has extensive stage experience as an actor, under Sir Barry Jackson in addition to a spell as Artistic Director of Birmingham Representative and Liverpool Playhouse. He also played the Kommandant in Colditz (1972-1974), and later appeared for the same production team as Albert Foiret in three seasons of Secret Army (1977-1979) as well as appearing as Pallas in I Claudius.
Before that he 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 and He played Sam Toovey in the 1989 television adaptation of Susan Hill"s ghost story The Woman in Black.
Before that he had played Inspector Goole in a 1982 adaptation of J. B. Priestley"s play An Inspector Calls) and Sir Thomas Bertram in. On radio Hepton played the role of Albert, in Stranger in the Home by Alan Dapre, also the role of The Old Manitoba in the Corner, the Baroness Orczy amateur, and mostly sedentary, sleuth in the British Broadcasting Corporation dramatisations called The Teahouse Detective (1998–2000).
His appearances in feature film have been less frequent.
He made a brief appearance as Thorpey, a gangster in the classic British film, and another small role, as Milton Goldsmith, in.