Patrick Allen

ActorCrew Mar 17 (died age 79) Nyasaland [now Malawi] 1954–2023 (69 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Biography

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.

Known For

Film

Dial M for Murder

Detective Pearson

Film

Blackadder

Narrator

Film

Threads

Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

Film

The Eagle Has Landed

Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Film

The Wild Geese

Rushton

Film

The Night of the Generals

Colonel Mannheim

Film

The Devil Rides Out

Rex Van Ryan (voice)

Film

1984

Inner Party Official

Filmography

Acting (119)

Movies (80)

Blackadder: The Lost Pilot

2023

as Pilot Narrator

6.9

The Official Story of the British Army

2006

as Narrator

Heroes of the Second World War

2005

as Narrator

Hitler's War

2005

as Narrator

10.0

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

2005

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Story of the Spitfire

as Narrator

The Hawker Hurricane

as Narrator

The Conquest of Everest 1953

as Narrator

Bullet to Beijing

as Colonel Wilson

Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors

1992

as Maj. Ronald Ferguson

The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police

1991

as Narrator

8.0

D-Day: Assault on Fortress Europe

1990

as Narrator

Naked Down Under

1990

as Opening Narrator (voice)

Roman Holiday

as General

Love After Lunch

as Harold Hagdorff

Threads

1985

as Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

7.6

The Thirteenth Day of Christmas

1985

as Gilbert Smith

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

1984

as King Simonides

7.0

The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace

1983

as Sir James Brooke

Who Dares Wins

1982

as Police Commissioner

Murder Is Easy

as Maj. Horton

Invasion: UFO

as Turner

The Sea Wolves

as Colin Mackenzie

Alien Attack

as Luna Commission Chairman

6.1

The Trial of Lady Chatterley

1980

as Gerald Gardiner QC

Lady Oscar

1979

5.6

Churchill and the Generals

1979

as Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck

The Wild Geese

1978

as Rushton

6.8

The Domino Principle

1977

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

5.9

The Eagle Has Landed

1976

as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Protect and Survive

as Narrator

The Wilby Conspiracy

as District Commissioner

Persecution

as Robert Masters

Sign It Death

as Richard Main

Diamonds on Wheels

as Insp. Cook

Erotic Fantasies

as Psychiatrist (voice)

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

1970

as Kingsor

6.1

The World at Their Feet

1970

as Self - Narrator (voice)

6.8

Puppet on a Chain

1970

as Inspector Van Gelder

5.9

The Body Stealers

1969

as Bob Megan

4.7

What's a Girl Like You?

1969

as Self - Narrator

3.0

Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt

1969

as Commentator

Cream: Farewell Concert

as Narrator (voice)

All My Loving

as Narrator (voice)

Journey Into Darkness

1968

as Luther Ames

The Devil Rides Out

1968

as Rex Van Ryan (voice)

6.5

The Big Switch

1968

as The Storyteller (voice)

4.6

Carry On Up the Khyber

1968

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

6.4

Benjamin Britten and His Festival

1967

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Night of the Generals

1967

as Colonel Mannheim

6.8

Carry On Doctor

1967

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

6.5

Night of the Big Heat

1967

as Jeff Callum

5.3

Don't Lose Your Head

1967

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

6.6

Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond

1967

as Narrator

6.0

Dead Silence

1966

as Chief Insp. Newton

The Big Job

1965

as Narrator

6.7

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1964

as Theseus

As You Like It

1963

as Orlando

Flight from Singapore

1962

as John Scott

Captain Clegg

as Captain Collier

The Traitors

as John Lane

The Sinister Man

as Dr. Nelson Pollard

10.0

Candida

1961

as Rev. James Mavor Morrell

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

as Peter Carter

Jet Storm

as Allan Mulliner

Dunkirk

as Sergeant on Parade Ground

6.8

Tread Softly Stranger

1958

as Paddy Ryan

7.6

High Hell

1958

as Luke Fulgham

I Was Monty's Double

1958

as Col. Mathers

6.9

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

as Jim Kennedy

The Long Haul

as Joe Easy

The Mark of the Hawk

as Gregory

High Tide at Noon

as Charles MacKenzie

1984

as Inner Party Official

6.5

Wicked as They Come

1956

as Willie

4.9

The Baby and the Battleship

as Mate

Confession

as Corey

Cross Channel

as Hugo Platt

Dial M for Murder

as Detective Pearson

World for Ransom

Television (39)

Days That Shook the World

2003

as Sir John French

6.6

Dare To Believe

2002

The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer

Body & Soul

as Walter Street

The Occult History of the Third Reich

as Narrator (voice)

TUGS

Time for Murder

as Gilbert Smith

Sherlock Holmes

as Colonel Sebastian Moran

Blackadder

as Narrator

Blackadder

as The Hawk

Bergerac

as Sir Gervase Ewell

Kidnapped

as Prestongrange

Scorpion Tales

as Cummings

Hard Times

as Thomas Gradgrind

Dangerous Knowledge

as Fane

Churchill's People

as Donald MacAmnay

Thriller

as Richard Main

Van der Valk

as Van Teeseling

The Protectors

as James Leroy Mallory

Brett

UFO

as Turner

Codename

as Morgan

The Champions

as Westerman

Man in a Suitcase

BBC Play of the Month

as Roger Quaife

Gideon's Way

as 'Spender Todd'

The Wednesday Play

Theatre 625

as Julien / Danton

Crane

as Richard Crane

Crane

The Saint

as Miles Hallin

Out of This World

as Major Peters

The Avengers

Sir Francis Drake

as Navarre

No Hiding Place

International Detective

1959

as Lieutenant Larkin

7.0

Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!

1957

as Corporal Brunowski

Armchair Theatre

1956

as Chief Insp. Newton

5.8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

as Self - Actor

7.8

Crew (2)

Television (2)

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