Person
Patrick Allen
Born 17 March 1927 Died 28 July 2006, aged 79 Nyasaland [now Malawi] TMDB ↗
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.
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22age in their first credit on record (1950)
73years on screen and counting
7credits in 1968, their busiest year
112dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 96 Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
2023as Pilot Narrator
Age: 68 Bullet to Beijing
1995as Colonel Wilson
Age: 65 Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors
1992as Maj. Ronald Ferguson
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Age: 62 Naked Down Under
1990as Opening Narrator (voice)
Age: 60 Roman Holiday
1987as General
Age: 60 Love After Lunch
1987as Harold Hagdorff
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Age: 58 The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
1985as Gilbert Smith
Age: 58 Threads
1985as Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Age: 57 Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1984as King Simonides
Age: 55 The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
1983as Sir James Brooke
Age: 55 Who Dares Wins
1982as Police Commissioner
Age: 54 Murder Is Easy
1982as Maj. Horton
Age: 53 The Trial of Lady Chatterley
1980as Gerald Gardiner QC
Age: 53 Alien Attack
1980as Luna Commission Chairman
Age: 53 The Sea Wolves
1980as Colin Mackenzie
Age: 52 Invasion: UFO
1980as Turner
Age: 52 Churchill and the Generals
1979as Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck
Age: 51 Lady Oscar
1979
Age: 51 The Wild Geese
1978as Rushton
Age: 50 Aerial Ambassador
1978
Age: 50 The Domino Principle
1977as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Age: 49 The Eagle Has Landed
1976as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Age: 47 The Wilby Conspiracy
1975as District Commissioner
Age: 47 Persecution
1974as Robert Masters
Age: 46 Sign It Death
1974as Richard Main
Age: 46 Diamonds on Wheels
1973as Insp. Cook
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Age: 43 Erotic Fantasies
1971as Psychiatrist (voice)
Age: 43 When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
1970as Kingsor
Age: 43 Puppet on a Chain
1970as Inspector Van Gelder
Age: 42 The Body Stealers
1969as Bob Megan
Age: 41 Cream: Farewell Concert
1969as Narrator (voice)
Age: 41 Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
1969as Commentator
Age: 41 All My Loving
1968as Narrator (voice)
Age: 41 The Devil Rides Out
1968as Rex Van Ryan (voice)
Age: 41 The Big Switch
1968as The Storyteller (voice)
Age: 40 Carry On Up the Khyber
1968as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Age: 40 Journey Into Darkness
1968as Luther Ames
Age: 40 Carry On Doctor
1967as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Age: 40 Night of the Big Heat
1967as Jeff Callum
Age: 39 Don't Lose Your Head
1967as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Age: 39 The Night of the Generals
1967as Colonel Mannheim
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Age: 39 Dead Silence
1966as Chief Insp. Newton
Age: 37 A Midsummer Night's Dream
1964as Theseus
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Age: 36 As You Like It
1963as Orlando
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Age: 35 Flight from Singapore
1962as John Scott
Age: 35 Captain Clegg
1962as Captain Collier
Age: 35 The Traitors
1962as John Lane
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Age: 34 Candida
1961as Rev. James Mavor Morrell
Age: 34 The Sinister Man
1961as Dr. Nelson Pollard
Age: 32 Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
1960as Peter Carter
Age: 32 Jet Storm
1959as Allan Mulliner
Age: 31 I Was Monty's Double
1958as Col. Mathers
Age: 31 Tread Softly Stranger
1958as Paddy Ryan
Age: 31 Dunkirk
1958as Sergeant on Parade Ground
Age: 30 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1958as Jim Kennedy
Age: 30 High Hell
1958as Luke Fulgham
Age: 30 The Mark of the Hawk
1957as Gregory
Age: 30 The Long Haul
1957as Joe Easy
Age: 30 High Tide at Noon
1957as Charles MacKenzie
Age: 29 The Baby and the Battleship
1956as Mate
Age: 29 Wicked as They Come
1956as Willie
Age: 28 1984
1956as Inner Party Official
Age: 28 Cross Channel
1955as Hugo Platt
Age: 28 Confession
1955as Corey
Age: 27 Dial M for Murder
1954as Detective Pearson
Age: 26 World for Ransom
1954 FR·03
TV credits
Age: 76 Days That Shook the World
2003as Sir John French
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Age: 75 Dare To Believe
2002
Age: 66 The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
1993
Age: 66 Body & Soul
1993as Walter Street
Age: 63 The Occult History of the Third Reich
1990as Narrator (voice)
Age: 62 TUGS
1989
Age: 59 The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1986as Colonel Sebastian Moran
Age: 58 Time for Murder
1985as Gilbert Smith
Age: 57 Sherlock Holmes
1984as Colonel Sebastian Moran
Age: 56 Blackadder
1983as The Hawk
Age: 55 The Winds of War
1983as Dowding
Age: 54 Bergerac
1981as Sir Gervase Ewell
Age: 52 Kidnapped
1979as Prestongrange
Age: 51 Scorpion Tales
1978as Cummings
Age: 50 Hard Times
1977as Thomas Gradgrind
Age: 49 Dangerous Knowledge
1976as Fane
Age: 47 Churchill's People
1974as Donald MacAmnay
Age: 46 Thriller
1973as Richard Main
Age: 45 The Protectors
1972as James Leroy Mallory
Age: 45 Van der Valk
1972as Van Teeseling
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Age: 44 Brett
1971
Age: 43 UFO
1970as Turner
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Age: 43 Codename
1970as Morgan
Age: 41 ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969as Chertkov
Age: 41 Journey to the Unknown
1968as Luther Ames
Age: 41 The Champions
1968as Westerman
Age: 40 Man in a Suitcase
1967
Age: 38 BBC Play of the Month
1965as Roger Quaife
Age: 38 Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965as Peter Roke
Age: 38 Gideon's Way
1965as 'Spender Todd'
Age: 37 The Wednesday Play
1964as Don Giovanni
Age: 37 The Wednesday Play
1964as The Man
Age: 37 Theatre 625
1964as Julien / Danton
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Age: 36 Crane
1963as Richard Crane
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Age: 36 Crane
1963
Age: 35 The Saint
1962as Miles Hallin
Age: 35 Out of This World
1962as Major Peters
Age: 34 Sir Francis Drake
1961as Navarre
Age: 33 Survival
1961
Age: 33 The Avengers
1961No poster
Age: 33 Sunday-Night Play
1960as Capt. Sasha Studzinsky
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Age: 32 International Detective
1959as Lieutenant Larkin
Age: 32 No Hiding Place
1959No poster
Age: 30 Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
1957as Corporal Brunowski
Age: 29 Armchair Theatre
1956as Chief Insp. Newton
Age: 22 Sunday Night Theatre
1950as Eddie Kirkley