Acting
Patrick Allen
Mar 17, 1927 (died Jul 28, 2006, aged 79) 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 actor.
Known for
8.0
Dial M for Murder
Detective Pearson
8.0
Blackadder
Narrator
8.2
Sherlock Holmes
Colonel Sebastian Moran
7.8
The Avengers
1961 · TV
7.4
The Saint
Miles Hallin
6.6
The Eagle Has Landed
Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
7.6
Threads
Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
7.7
UFO
Turner
6.8
The Wild Geese
Rushton
6.8
The Night of the Generals
Colonel Mannheim
7.0
Bergerac
Sir Gervase Ewell
6.5
The Devil Rides Out
Rex Van Ryan (voice)
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
Roger Quaife
6.5
The Champions
Westerman
7.3
The Winds of War
Dowding
Filmography
7.1
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
2023 · Pilot Narrator
10.0
Hitler's War
2005 · Narrator
7.0
Days That Shook the World
2003 · Sir John French
8.0
Story of the Spitfire
2001 · Narrator
5.5
The Conquest of Everest 1953
1997 · Narrator
5.2
Bullet to Beijing
1995 · Colonel Wilson
7.7
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
1993
5.8
Body & Soul
1993 · Walter Street
9.0
Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors
1992 · Maj. Ronald Ferguson
7.7
The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police
1991 · Narrator
6.2
The Occult History of the Third Reich
1990 · Narrator (voice)
8.3
TUGS
1989 · Captain Star / Narrator (voice)
4.7
Roman Holiday
1987 · General
7.9
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1986 · Colonel Sebastian Moran
4.0
Time for Murder
1985 · Gilbert Smith
8.2
Sherlock Holmes
1984 · Colonel Sebastian Moran
7.6
Threads
1984 · Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
7.5
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1984 · King Simonides
8.0
Blackadder
1983 · Narrator
7.3
The Winds of War
1983 · Dowding
6.3
Who Dares Wins
1982 · Police Commissioner
6.6
Murder Is Easy
1982 · Maj. Horton
7.0
Bergerac
1981 · Sir Gervase Ewell
5.9
The Sea Wolves
1980 · Colin Mackenzie
5.7
Invasion: UFO
1980 · Turner
6.5
Alien Attack
1980 · Luna Commission Chairman
5.7
Lady Oscar
1979
7.1
Kidnapped
1979 · Prestongrange
9.0
Churchill and the Generals
1979 · Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck
6.8
The Wild Geese
1978 · Rushton