[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.

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.

[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.