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Patrick Allen is a Actor British born on 17 march 1927 at Malawi

Patrick Allen

Patrick Allen
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Birth name John Keith Patrick Allen
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 17 march 1927 at Malawi
Death 28 july 2006 (at 79 years) at London (United-kingdom)

John Keith Patrick Allen (17 March 1927 – 28 July 2006) was an English film, television and voice actor.

Biography

Il est né le 17 mars 1927 au Nyasaland, l'actuel Malawi où son père, Edward Allen, d'origine irlandaise était producteur de tabac, mais ses parents divorcent lorsqu'il est enfant. Sa mère le ramène en Angleterre mais il est évacué vers le Canada au début de la seconde guerre mondiale et y fait toute sa scolarité. Il entame des études de médecine à l'université McGill de Montréal, mais s'investit dans la radio universitaire puis travaille à Radio-Canada (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) puis a l'occasion d'avoir de petits rôles au cinéma (à Hollywood) et à la télévision (à Chicago).

Rentré au Royaume-Uni en 1953, il rejoint la Royal Shakespeare Company, où il joue avec Vanessa Redgrave dans As You Like It et The Winter's Tale, avec Peter O'Toole dans The Merchant of Venice. Il fait aussi ses débuts au cinéma en 1954 dans Dial M for Murder.

Il épouse en 1960 l'actrice Sarah Lawson, qu'il a rencontrée sur les planches en 1955. Elle lui donne deux enfants, Stephen et Stuart. Il meurt à Londres, le 28 juillet 2006.

Usually with

Patrick Holt
Patrick Holt
(6 films)
Ken Hughes
Ken Hughes
(3 films)
Sid James
Sid James
(6 films)
Roy Ashton
Roy Ashton
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Patrick Allen (49 films)

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Actor

Bullet to Beijing, 1h41
Directed by George Mihalka
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Mia Sara, Michael Gambon, Lev Prygunov, Burt Kwouk
Roles Colonel Wilson
Rating53% 2.6996552.6996552.6996552.6996552.699655
Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) is forced into early retirement from MI5. He receives a telephone call offering a mysterious job opportunity.
Threads
Threads (1984)
, 1h50
Directed by Mick Jackson
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Documentary, Horror
Themes Politique, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Documentary films about nuclear technology, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Jane Hazlegrove, Steve Halliwell, Brian Grellis, Victoria O'Keefe
Roles Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Rating79% 3.9963453.9963453.9963453.9963453.996345
Young Sheffield residents Ruth Beckett (Karen Meagher) and Jimmy Kemp (Reece Dinsdale) decide to marry due to an unplanned pregnancy. Meanwhile, as tensions between the US and the Soviet Union over Iran escalate, the Home Office directs Sheffield City Council to assemble an emergency operations team, which establishes itself in a makeshift bomb shelter in the basement of the Town Hall. After an ignored US ultimatum to the Soviets results in a brief tactical nuclear skirmish, Britain is gripped by fear, with looting and rioting erupting. "Known subversives" (including peace activists and some trade unionists) are arrested and interned under the Emergency Powers Act.
Murder Is Easy, 1h30
Directed by Claude Whatham
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Bill Bixby, Lesley-Anne Down, Helen Hayes, Olivia de Havilland, Timothy West, Patrick Allen
Roles Maj. Horton
Rating60% 3.049943.049943.049943.049943.04994
Adaptation du roman d'Agatha Christie, Un meutre est-il facile?
Who Dares Wins, 2h5
Directed by Ian Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark, Edward Woodward, Robert Webber, John Duttine
Roles Police Commissioner
Rating63% 3.1976353.1976353.1976353.1976353.197635
A demonstration by unilateral nuclear disarmament protesters (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) in London is interrupted when one of the protesters is violently killed. British security forces learn that a militant group attached to CND has been planning a significant act of terrorism for the near future. The person killed during the protest demonstration was an undercover intelligence officer who had infiltrated the terrorists. The Commanding Officer of the Special Air Service, Colonel Hadley, suggests a new line of inquiry for the investigation.
The Sea Wolves, 2h
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Barbara Kellerman, Patrick Macnee
Roles Colin Mackenzie
Rating62% 3.146783.146783.146783.146783.14678
During World War II, German submarines are sinking thousands of tons of British merchant shipping. British intelligence, based in India, believes that information is being passed to the U-Boats by a radio transmitter hidden on board one of three German merchant ships interned in Portuguese Goa. Since Portugal is neutral, the ships cannot be attacked by conventional forces.
Alien Attack, 1h44
Directed by Lee H. Katzin, Charles Crichton, Bill Lenny
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Dans l'espace, Space opera
Actors Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Nick Tate, Roy Dotrice, Isla Blair
Roles Luna Commission Chairman
Rating61% 3.0961053.0961053.0961053.0961053.096105
Des chercheurs installés sur la Lune doivent effectuer une mission vers une planète considérée comme habitable. Cependant, la mort inexpliquée de plusieurs astronautes compromettent fortement leur voyage.
Caligula
Caligula (1979)
, 1h42
Directed by Tinto Brass
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Erotic, Historical, Peplum, Romance, Pornographic
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy, Paolo Bonacelli
Rating53% 2.657342.657342.657342.657342.65734
Caligula is the young heir to the throne of the syphilis-ridden, half-mad Emperor Tiberius. One morning, a blackbird flies into his room; Caligula considers this a bad omen. Shortly afterward, the head of the Praetorian Guard Macro tells Caligula that Tiberus, his great uncle, demands his immediate presence at Capri, where the Emperor lives with his close friend Nerva, a dim-witted relative Claudius, and Caligula's younger stepbrother Gemellus. Fearing assassination, Caligula is afraid to leave but his sister and lover Drusilla persuades him to go.
Lady Oscar
Lady Oscar (1979)
, 2h4
Directed by Jacques Demy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, LGBT-related films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Catriona MacColl, Barry Stokes, Patsy Kensit, Christine Böhm, Georges Wilson, Jonas Bergström
Rating57% 2.8953052.8953052.8953052.8953052.895305
Oscar Françoise de Jarjayes (Catriona MacColl) is a young woman whose father, a career military man, wanted a boy. After she was born her father took to dressing Oscar in boy's clothes and raising her as a man. Privately Oscar acknowledges her feminine side, she dresses as a man and gains an honored position as a guard of Marie Antoinette (Christina Bohm). In her youth, Oscar is in love with Andre (Barry Stokes), the son of the family's housekeeper. Years later, when the French Revolution begins, Oscar and Andre's paths cross for the first time in years. With the assault on the Bastille, Oscar and Andre find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the revolution.
The Wild Geese, 2h10
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, John Glen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Monde imaginaire, Films about racism
Actors Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger, Stewart Granger, Frank Finlay
Roles Rushton
Rating67% 3.3999453.3999453.3999453.3999453.399945
Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton), a British mercenary and former army colonel, arrives in London to meet the rich and ruthless merchant banker Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger). The latter proposes a risky operation to rescue Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona), the imprisoned leader of a central African nation who is due to be executed by General Ndofa, the man who deposed him. Limbani is currently being held in a remote prison in Zembala, guarded by a unit of Ndofa's personal troops known as the "Simbas".
Force 10 from Navarone, 1h58
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Edward Fox, Barbara Bach, Carl Weathers, Franco Nero
Roles Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1984953.1984953.1984953.1984953.198495
In 1943, after their successful mission on the Greek island of Navarone, Major Keith Mallory (Robert Shaw) and Sergeant Miller (Edward Fox) are sent to find and kill Nicolai. Originally thought to be a traitor who informed the Germans about Miller and Mallory during the Navarone mission, Nicolai is now known to be Colonel von Ingorslebon, a dedicated German spy believed to have infiltrated the Yugoslav Partisans as "Captain Lescovar" (Franco Nero).
The Domino Principle, 1h37
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney, Richard Widmark, Edward Albert, Eli Wallach
Roles Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Rating57% 2.852622.852622.852622.852622.85262
Roy Tucker (Gene Hackman), serving time for the murder of his wife's first husband, is approached in prison by a man named Tagge (Richard Widmark) on behalf of a mysterious organization with an offer: in exchange for helping him escape and start a new life, Tucker must work for the organization for a few weeks. Following his escape with cellmate Spiventa (Mickey Rooney)—whom the organization immediately kills—Tucker flies to Puntarenas, Costa Rica where he is reunited with his wife Ellie (Candice Bergen). After a few idyllic days, the organization's Tagge, Pine (Edward Albert) and General Reser (Eli Wallach) return them to Los Angeles. There the details of his mission slowly unfold. He realizes he is expected to assassinate someone and refuses. The organization retaliates by kidnapping his wife.
The Eagle Has Landed, 2h15
Directed by John Sturges
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle
Roles Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.4479753.4479753.4479753.4479753.447975
The film begins with captured Second World War film footage of the rescue from Italy of Mussolini by German paratroopers.
The Wilby Conspiracy, 1h45
Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee, Rutger Hauer, Saeed Jaffrey
Roles District Commissioner
Rating63% 3.199293.199293.199293.199293.19929
In apartheid-era South Africa, Shack Twala (played by Sidney Poitier), a black revolutionary who had served time on Robben Island, is freed by Rina van Niekerk (Prunella Gee), his Afrikaner defence attorney, because he would be a victim of retroactive legislation. Rina, estranged from her husband Blane (Rutger Hauer), is having a relationship with an English mining engineer, Jim Keogh (Michael Caine), who has attended Shack's trial. Surprised by the verdict, Rina, Jim and Shack go off to celebrate at her house. They are stopped by the South African Police who are conducting identity document checks and arresting everyone who does not have their papers on them. As Shack has only just been released from prison he will not receive his papers until the next day. The police Constable and Shack antagonise each other leading to Shack being handcuffed and arrested. When Rina attempts to pull the Constable off Shack, the policeman hits her, knocking her to the ground. Jim assaults and knocks out the Constable making all three fugitives.
Persecution, 1h35
Directed by Don Chaffey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Lana Turner, Trevor Howard, Ralph Bates, Olga Georges-Picot, Suzan Farmer, Patrick Allen
Roles Robert Masters
Rating45% 2.274592.274592.274592.274592.27459
Carrie Masters (Lana Turner) is a crippled, wealthy, bitter woman who takes pleasure in tormenting her young son David (Mark Weavers). She blames him for her crippled leg and, in bizarre and horrifying ways, extracts her revenge by dominating him.