Acting

Patrick Allen

Born 1927-03-17 · Nyasaland [now Malawi]

Died 2006-07-28

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.

Credits

Newest first

Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
as Pilot Narrator
2023
The Video Encyclopedia of World War Two
as Self - Narrator
2008
The War File: Hitler's War
as Narrator
2008
The Official Story of the British Army
as Narrator
2006
Hitler's War
as Narrator
2005
Heroes of the Second World War
as Narrator
2005
Unsolved Mysteries Of The Second World War - The Enigma Of Swastika / The Eagle And The Swastika
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2005
Days That Shook the World
as Sir John French
2003
The War File: Tank Battles: El Alamein to the Volga
as Narrator
2002
The War File: Great Sea Battles of World War Two
as Narrator
2002
The War File: Battleships at War
as Narrator
2002
Dare To Believe
2002
The Hawker Hurricane
as Narrator
2001
Story of the Spitfire
as Narrator
2001
The Conquest of Everest 1953
as Narrator
1997
Bullet to Beijing
as Colonel Wilson
1995
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
1993
Body & Soul
as Walter Street
1993
Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors
as Maj. Ronald Ferguson
1992
The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police
as Narrator
1991
The Occult History of the Third Reich
as Narrator (voice)
1990
Naked Down Under
as Opening Narrator (voice)
1990
D-Day: Assault on Fortress Europe
as Narrator
1990
TUGS
as Captain Star / Narrator (voice)
1989
Roman Holiday
as General
1987
Love After Lunch
as Harold Hagdorff
1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Colonel Sebastian Moran
1986
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
as Gilbert Smith
1985
Time for Murder
as Gilbert Smith
1985
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
as King Simonides
1984
Threads
as Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
1984
Sherlock Holmes
as Colonel Sebastian Moran
1984
Blackadder
as Narrator
1983
Blackadder
as The Hawk
1983
The Winds of War
as Dowding
1983
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
as Sir James Brooke
1983
Who Dares Wins
as Police Commissioner
1982
Murder Is Easy
as Maj. Horton
1982
Bergerac
as Sir Gervase Ewell
1981
A Spy at Evening
as Mansfield
1981
The Trial of Lady Chatterley
as Gerald Gardiner QC
1980
Alien Attack
as Luna Commission Chairman
1980
The Sea Wolves
as Colin Mackenzie
1980
Invasion: UFO
as Turner
1980
Churchill and the Generals
as Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck
1979
Kidnapped
as Prestongrange
1979
Lady Oscar
1979
The Wild Geese
as Rushton
1978
Scorpion Tales
as Cummings
1978
Aerial Ambassador
1978
Hard Times
as Thomas Gradgrind
1977
The Domino Principle
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977
The Eagle Has Landed
as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1976
Dangerous Knowledge
as Fane
1976
Protect and Survive
as Narrator
1976
The Wilby Conspiracy
as District Commissioner
1975
Churchill's People
as Donald MacAmnay
1974
Persecution
as Robert Masters
1974
Sign It Death
as Richard Main
1974
Diamonds on Wheels
as Insp. Cook
1973
Thriller
as Richard Main
1973
The Protectors
as James Leroy Mallory
1972
Van der Valk
as Van Teeseling
1972
Brett
1971
Erotic Fantasies
as Psychiatrist (voice)
1971
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
as Kingsor
1970
UFO
as Turner
1970
Puppet on a Chain
as Inspector Van Gelder
1970
The World at Their Feet
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1970
Codename
as Morgan
1970
The Body Stealers
as Bob Megan
1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
as Chertkov
1969
Cream: Farewell Concert
as Narrator (voice)
1969
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
as Commentator
1969
What's a Girl Like You?
as Self - Narrator
1969
All My Loving
as Narrator (voice)
1968
Journey to the Unknown
as Luther Ames
1968
The Champions
as Westerman
1968
The Devil Rides Out
as Rex Van Ryan (voice)
1968
The Big Switch
as The Storyteller (voice)
1968