
Patrick Allen
Acting
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Acting Credits
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
Filmography

Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
2023
as Pilot Narrator

The War File: Hitler's War
2008
as Narrator
The Video Encyclopedia of World War Two
2008
as Self - Narrator

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
Unsolved Mysteries Of The Second World War - The Enigma Of Swastika / The Eagle And The Swastika
2005
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Days That Shook the World
2003
as Sir John French

The War File: Tank Battles: El Alamein to the Volga
2002
as Narrator

The War File: Great Sea Battles of World War Two
2002
as Narrator

The War File: Battleships at War
2002
as Narrator
Dare To Believe
2002

Story of the Spitfire
2001
as Narrator

The Hawker Hurricane
2001
as Narrator

The Conquest of Everest 1953
1997
as Narrator

Bullet to Beijing
1995
as Colonel Wilson

The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
1993

Body & Soul
1993
as Walter Street

Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors
1992
as Maj. Ronald Ferguson

The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police
1991
as Narrator
Naked Down Under
1990
as Opening Narrator (voice)

D-Day: Assault on Fortress Europe
1990
as Narrator

The Occult History of the Third Reich
1990
as Narrator (voice)

TUGS
1989
as Captain Star / Narrator (voice)

Roman Holiday
1987
as General

Love After Lunch
1987
as Harold Hagdorff

The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1986
as Colonel Sebastian Moran
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
1985
as Gilbert Smith

Time for Murder
1985
as Gilbert Smith

Threads
1984
as Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1984
as King Simonides

Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Colonel Sebastian Moran

The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
1983
as Sir James Brooke

Blackadder
1983
as Narrator

Blackadder
1983
as The Hawk

The Winds of War
1983
as Dowding

Murder Is Easy
1982
as Maj. Horton

Who Dares Wins
1982
as Police Commissioner

Bergerac
1981
as Sir Gervase Ewell
A Spy at Evening
1981
as Mansfield

Alien Attack
1980
as Luna Commission Chairman

The Sea Wolves
1980
as Colin Mackenzie

The Trial of Lady Chatterley
1980
as Gerald Gardiner QC

Invasion: UFO
1980
as Turner

Lady Oscar
1979

Churchill and the Generals
1979
as Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck

Kidnapped
1979
as Prestongrange

The Wild Geese
1978
as Rushton

Aerial Ambassador
1978

Scorpion Tales
1978
as Cummings

The Domino Principle
1977
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Hard Times
1977
as Thomas Gradgrind

The Eagle Has Landed
1976
as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Protect and Survive
1976
as Narrator

Dangerous Knowledge
1976
as Fane

The Wilby Conspiracy
1975
as District Commissioner

Persecution
1974
as Robert Masters

Sign It Death
1974
as Richard Main

Churchill's People
1974
as Donald MacAmnay

Diamonds on Wheels
1973
as Insp. Cook

Thriller
1973
as Richard Main

The Protectors
1972
as James Leroy Mallory

Van der Valk
1972
as Van Teeseling
Erotic Fantasies
1971
as Psychiatrist (voice)
Brett
1971

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
1970
as Kingsor

Puppet on a Chain
1970
as Inspector Van Gelder

The World at Their Feet
1970
as Self - Narrator (voice)

UFO
1970
as Turner
Codename
1970
as Morgan

Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
1969
as Commentator

The Body Stealers
1969
as Bob Megan

Cream: Farewell Concert
1969
as Narrator (voice)

What's a Girl Like You?
1969
as Self - Narrator

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Chertkov

All My Loving
1968
as Narrator (voice)

The Devil Rides Out
1968
as Rex Van Ryan (voice)

Journey Into Darkness
1968
as Luther Ames

Carry On Up the Khyber
1968
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

The Big Switch
1968
as The Storyteller (voice)

The Champions
1968
as Westerman

Journey to the Unknown
1968
as Luther Ames

Night of the Big Heat
1967
as Jeff Callum

Benjamin Britten and His Festival
1967
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Night of the Generals
1967
as Colonel Mannheim

Carry On Doctor
1967
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond
1967
as Narrator

Don't Lose Your Head
1967
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Man in a Suitcase
1967
Dead Silence
1966
as Chief Insp. Newton

The Big Job
1965
as Narrator

Gideon's Way
1965
as 'Spender Todd'

BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Roger Quaife

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Peter Roke

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1964
as Theseus

Theatre 625
1964
as Julien / Danton

The Wednesday Play
1964
as Don Giovanni

The Wednesday Play
1964
as The Man
As You Like It
1963
as Orlando
Crane
1963
Crane
1963
as Richard Crane

Captain Clegg
1962
as Captain Collier

The Traitors
1962
as John Lane
Flight from Singapore
1962
as John Scott

The Saint
1962
as Miles Hallin

Out of This World
1962
as Major Peters

The Sinister Man
1961
as Dr. Nelson Pollard
Candida
1961
as Rev. James Mavor Morrell

The Avengers
1961

Sir Francis Drake
1961
as Navarre

Survival
1961

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
1960
as Peter Carter
Sunday-Night Play
1960
as Capt. Sasha Studzinsky

Jet Storm
1959
as Allan Mulliner

No Hiding Place
1959
International Detective
1959
as Lieutenant Larkin

Tread Softly Stranger
1958
as Paddy Ryan

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1958
as Jim Kennedy

High Hell
1958
as Luke Fulgham

I Was Monty's Double
1958
as Col. Mathers

Dunkirk
1958
as Sergeant on Parade Ground

The Mark of the Hawk
1957
as Gregory

The Long Haul
1957
as Joe Easy

High Tide at Noon
1957
as Charles MacKenzie
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
1957
as Corporal Brunowski

Wicked as They Come
1956
as Willie

1984
1956
as Inner Party Official

The Baby and the Battleship
1956
as Mate

Armchair Theatre
1956
as Chief Insp. Newton

Confession
1955
as Corey

Cross Channel
1955
as Hugo Platt

Dial M for Murder
1954
as Detective Pearson

World for Ransom
1954

Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Eddie Kirkley

Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Captain Coombe

Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Major Coombe