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

The Avengers
1961
BBC Play of the Month
1966
The Saint
1965
The Wednesday Play
1966
Sherlock Holmes
1986
Theatre 625
1965
Bergerac
1984
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1967
No Hiding Place
1964
Blackadder
1983
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1972
The Champions
1969

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
136
Crew
1
2023
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot
as Pilot Narrator
2008
The War File: Hitler's War
as Narrator
2008
The Video Encyclopedia of World War Two
as Self - Narrator
2006
The Official Story of the British Army
as Narrator
2005
Heroes of the Second World War
as Narrator
2005
Hitler's War
as Narrator
2005
Unsolved Mysteries Of The Second World War - The Enigma Of Swastika / The Eagle And The Swastika
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2004
Days That Shook the World
as Sir John French
2002
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
2001
The Hawker Hurricane
as Narrator
2001
Story of the Spitfire
as Narrator
2001
Survival
1997
The Conquest of Everest 1953
as Narrator
1995
Bullet to Beijing
as Colonel Wilson
1993
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
1993
Body & Soul
as Walter Street
1992
Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors
as Maj. Ronald Ferguson
1991
The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police
as Narrator
1990
Naked Down Under
as Opening Narrator (voice)
1990
D-Day: Assault on Fortress Europe
as Narrator
1990
The Occult History of the Third Reich
as Narrator (voice)
1989
TUGS
as Captain Star / Narrator (voice)
1987
Roman Holiday
as General
1987
Love After Lunch
as Harold Hagdorff
1986
Sherlock Holmes
as Colonel Sebastian Moran
1986
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Colonel Sebastian Moran
1985
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
as Gilbert Smith
1985
Time for Murder
as Gilbert Smith
1984
Threads
as Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
1984
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
as King Simonides
1984
Bergerac
as Sir Gervase Ewell
1983
The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace
as Sir James Brooke
1983
Blackadder
as Narrator
1983
Blackadder
as The Hawk
1983
The Winds of War
as Dowding
1982
Murder Is Easy
as Maj. Horton
1982
Who Dares Wins
as Police Commissioner
1981
A Spy at Evening
as Mansfield
1980
Alien Attack
as Luna Commission Chairman
1980
The Sea Wolves
as Colin Mackenzie
1980
The Trial of Lady Chatterley
as Gerald Gardiner QC
1980
Invasion: UFO
as Turner
1979
Lady Oscar
1979
Churchill and the Generals
as Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck
1979
Kidnapped
as Prestongrange
1978
The Wild Geese
as Rushton
1978
Aerial Ambassador
1978
Scorpion Tales
as Cummings
1977
The Domino Principle
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977
Hard Times
as Thomas Gradgrind
1976
The Eagle Has Landed
as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1976
Protect and Survive
as Narrator
1976
Dangerous Knowledge
as Fane
1975
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
Thriller
as Richard Main
1973
Diamonds on Wheels
as Insp. Cook
1973
The Protectors
as James Leroy Mallory
1973
Van der Valk
as Van Teeseling
1972
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
as Chertkov
1971
Erotic Fantasies
as Psychiatrist (voice)
1971
UFO
as Turner
1971
Brett
1970
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
as Kingsor
1970
Puppet on a Chain
as Inspector Van Gelder
1970
The World at Their Feet
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1970
Codename
as Morgan
1969
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
as Commentator
1969
The Body Stealers
as Bob Megan
1969
Cream: Farewell Concert
as Narrator (voice)
1969
What's a Girl Like You?
as Self - Narrator
1969
The Champions
as Westerman
1968
All My Loving
as Narrator (voice)
1968
The Devil Rides Out
as Rex Van Ryan (voice)
1968
Journey Into Darkness
as Luther Ames
1968
Carry On Up the Khyber
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1968
The Big Switch
as The Storyteller (voice)
1968
Man in a Suitcase
1968
Journey to the Unknown
as Luther Ames
1968
The Wednesday Play
as The Man
1967
Night of the Big Heat
as Jeff Callum
1967
Benjamin Britten and His Festival
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1967
The Night of the Generals
as Colonel Mannheim
1967
Carry On Doctor
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1967
Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond
as Narrator
1967
Don't Lose Your Head
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1967
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Peter Roke
1966
Dead Silence
as Chief Insp. Newton
1966
Gideon's Way
as 'Spender Todd'
1966
BBC Play of the Month
as Roger Quaife
1966
Armchair Theatre
as Chief Insp. Newton
1966
The Wednesday Play
as Don Giovanni
1965
The Big Job
as Narrator
1965
The Saint
as Miles Hallin
1965
Theatre 625
as Julien / Danton
1964
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Theseus
1964
No Hiding Place
1963
As You Like It
as Orlando
1963
Crane
1963
Crane
as Richard Crane
1962
Captain Clegg
as Captain Collier
1962
The Traitors
as John Lane
1962
Flight from Singapore
as John Scott
1962
Sir Francis Drake
as Navarre
1962
Out of This World
as Major Peters
1961
The Sinister Man
as Dr. Nelson Pollard
1961
Candida
as Rev. James Mavor Morrell
1961
The Avengers
1960
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
as Peter Carter
1960
International Detective
as Lieutenant Larkin
1960
Sunday-Night Play
as Capt. Sasha Studzinsky
1959
Jet Storm
as Allan Mulliner
1959
Sunday Night Theatre
as Eddie Kirkley
1958
Tread Softly Stranger
as Paddy Ryan
1958
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
as Jim Kennedy
1958
High Hell
as Luke Fulgham
1958
I Was Monty's Double
as Col. Mathers
1958
Dunkirk
as Sergeant on Parade Ground
1957
The Mark of the Hawk
as Gregory
1957
The Long Haul
as Joe Easy
1957
High Tide at Noon
as Charles MacKenzie
1957
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
as Corporal Brunowski
1956
Wicked as They Come
as Willie
1956
1984
as Inner Party Official
1956
The Baby and the Battleship
as Mate
1955
Confession
as Corey
1955
Cross Channel
as Hugo Platt
1954
Dial M for Murder
as Detective Pearson
1954
World for Ransom
1954
Sunday Night Theatre
as Captain Coombe
1954
Sunday Night Theatre
as Major Coombe