Patrick Allen

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Patrick Allen

Acting March 17, 1927

Nyasaland [now Malawi]

John Keith Patrick Allen was a British actor. Allen's distinctive, authoritative voice was familiar across the United Kingdom, even amongst those who did not recognise him as an a…

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Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder

8.0 1954 Movie
Blackadder

Blackadder

8.0 1983 TV Show
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

8.2 1984 TV Show
The Avengers

The Avengers

7.8 1961 TV Show
Threads

Threads

7.6 1984 Movie
The Eagle Has Landed

The Eagle Has Landed

6.7 1976 Movie
The Saint

The Saint

7.4 1962 TV Show
BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month

5.2 1965 TV Show
The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese

6.8 1978 Movie
Bergerac

Bergerac

7.0 1981 TV Show
Theatre 625

Theatre 625

7.2 1964 TV Show
The Wednesday Play

The Wednesday Play

5.2 1964 TV Show

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John Keith Patrick Allen was a British actor. Allen's distinctive, authoritative voice was familiar across the United Kingdom, even amongst those who did not recognise him as an actor.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2023
    Blackadder: The Lost Pilot

    Movie Pilot Narrator

  2. 2008
    The Video Encyclopedia of World War Two

    TV show Self - Narrator

  3. 2008
    The War File: Hitler's War

    Movie Narrator

  4. 2006
    The Official Story of the British Army

    Movie Narrator

  5. 2005
    Hitler's War

    Movie Narrator

  6. 2005
    Heroes of the Second World War

    Movie Narrator

  7. 2005
    Unsolved Mysteries Of The Second World War - The Enigma Of Swastika / The Eagle And The Swastika

    Movie Self - Narrator (voice)

  8. 2003
    Days That Shook the World

    TV show Sir John French

  9. 2002
    The War File: Tank Battles: El Alamein to the Volga

    Movie Narrator

  10. 2002
    The War File: Battleships at War

    Movie Narrator

  11. 2002
    The War File: Great Sea Battles of World War Two

    Movie Narrator

  12. 2002
    Dare To Believe

    TV show

  13. 2001
    Story of the Spitfire

    Movie Narrator

  14. 2001
    The Hawker Hurricane

    Movie Narrator

  15. 1997
    The Conquest of Everest 1953

    Movie Narrator

  16. 1995
    Bullet to Beijing

    Movie Colonel Wilson

More credits
  1. 1993
    The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer

    TV show

  2. 1993
    Body & Soul

    TV show Walter Street

  3. 1992
    Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors

    Movie Maj. Ronald Ferguson

  4. 1991
    The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police

    Movie Narrator

  5. 1990
    The Occult History of the Third Reich

    TV show Narrator (voice)

  6. 1990
    Naked Down Under

    Movie Opening Narrator (voice)

  7. 1990
    D-Day: Assault on Fortress Europe

    Movie Narrator

  8. 1989
    TUGS

    TV show Captain Star / Narrator (voice)

  9. 1987
    Roman Holiday

    Movie General

  10. 1987
    Love After Lunch

    Movie Harold Hagdorff

  11. 1986
    The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    TV show Colonel Sebastian Moran

  12. 1985
    The Thirteenth Day of Christmas

    Movie Gilbert Smith

  13. 1985
    Time for Murder

    TV show Gilbert Smith

  14. 1984
    Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    Movie King Simonides

  15. 1984
    Threads

    Movie Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

  16. 1984
    Sherlock Holmes

    TV show Colonel Sebastian Moran

  17. 1983
    Blackadder

    TV show Narrator

  18. 1983
    The Winds of War

    TV show Dowding

  19. 1983
    The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace

    Movie Sir James Brooke

  20. 1982
    Who Dares Wins

    Movie Police Commissioner

  21. 1982
    Murder Is Easy

    Movie Maj. Horton

  22. 1981
    Bergerac

    TV show Sir Gervase Ewell

  23. 1981
    A Spy at Evening

    TV show Mansfield

  24. 1980
    The Trial of Lady Chatterley

    Movie Gerald Gardiner QC