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Brian Aherne is a Actor British born on 2 may 1902 at Worcestershire (Luxembourg)

Brian Aherne

Brian Aherne
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Birth name William Brian de Lacy Aherne
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 2 may 1902 at Worcestershire (Luxembourg)
Death 10 february 1986 (at 83 years) at Venice (USA)

Brian Aherne (2 May 1902 – 10 February 1986) was an English actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood.

Biography

Il est né William Brian de Lacy Aherne à King's Norton dans le Worcestershire, fils de William de Lacy Aherne et son épouse Louise née Thomas.

Sur les planches en amateur dès l'âge de 3 ans, le britannique Brian Aherne a étudié à l'école Italia Conti avant de faire ses débuts professionnels à 8 ans. Il a dit plus tard qu'il était resté acteur (malgré une tentative pour devenir architecte) pour pouvoir dormir jusqu'à dix heures du matin.

Après des succès sur la scène et sur l'écran en Angleterre, Aherne est venu en Amerique en 1931 pour jouer à Broadway dans la première version des Barretts de Wimpole Street. Son premier film à Hollywood a été Le Cantique des cantiques en 1933 avec Marlene Dietrich. Tout au long des années 1930, il conserve un personnage de gentleman anglais désireux de défendre son honneur (ou celui de quelqu'un d'autre) avec les poings si nécessaire. Il a joué beaucoup de seconds rôles, mais aussi le rôle titre de Le Grand Garrick en 1937 ainsi que dans plusieurs productions de Hal Roach en 1938 et 1939 (sans aimer spécialement l'improvisation qui régnait chez Roach, il appréciait ses rôles). Il a été nommé à l'Oscar pour son interprétation sensible du malheureux empereur Maximilien dans Juarez (1939).

À la fin des années 1950 il a abandonné le cinéma et la télévision pour reprendre au théâtre le rôle d'Henry Higgins dans My Fair Lady. Aherne publia son autobiographie A Proper Job en 1969, ainsi que A Dreadful Man en 1979, une biographie de son ami George Sanders.

Entre 1939 et 1945 il fut marié à l'actrice Joan Fontaine. Après leur divorce, il épouse Eleanor de Liagre Labrot.

Brian Aherne est mort d'une attaque cardiaque à Venice en Floride à l'âge de 83 ans.

Une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Hollywood Walk of Fame, au 1752 Vine Street.

Usually with

Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp
(6 films)
Charles Vidor
Charles Vidor
(4 films)
Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Brian Aherne (46 films)

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Actor

Rosie!
Rosie! (1967)
, 1h38
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Rosalind Russell, Sandra Dee, Brian Aherne, Audrey Meadows, James Farentino, Vanessa Brown
Roles Oliver Stevenson
Rating66% 3.339683.339683.339683.339683.33968
Rosie Lord (Russell) is a widowed millionaire who, much to the dismay of her daughters Mildred (Meadows) and Edith (Brown), spends her money generously. When she announces to buy a $2.5 million closed theater in a run-down part of Los Angeles, because it's the location where her late husband proposed to her and it's now threatened to be turned into a parking lot, her daughters decide that they have had enough. Edith and her husband Cabot (Nielsen) complain that they are only granted $100.000 a year, and work together with cold-hearted and recently divorced Mildred to discourage Rosie from making the buy. They are unable to convince her and her legal advisor Oliver (Aherne) to let them take care of their money, and thus decide to try to declare her incompetent, thereby hoping to put her in an insane asylum. Edith and Cabot's young daughter Daphne (Dee) is appalled to overhear the scheme, and vows to help her grandmother.
Lancelot and Guinevere, 1h56
Directed by Cornel Wilde
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde, Brian Aherne, George Baker, Adrienne Corri, Reginald Beckwith
Roles King Arthur
Rating56% 2.848792.848792.848792.848792.84879
Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls for Guinevere (Wallace), bride of Arthur (Brian Aherne, who had essayed this character previously in 1954's Prince Valiant), and she for him.
Susan Slade, 1h56
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Connie Stevens, Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Lloyd Nolan, Brian Aherne, Grant Williams
Roles Stanton Corbett
Rating62% 3.1461253.1461253.1461253.1461253.146125
The plot revolves around a naive 17-year-old girl, Susan Slade (Connie Stevens), who becomes pregnant during a shipboard romance with Conn White, a mountain climber (Grant Williams). Her parents decide that it is best for Susan to allow them to pass the baby off as theirs to protect her reputation. Feeling helpless, Susan reluctantly agrees to pretend to be the baby's older sister. Later, two suitors, Hoyt Brecker (Troy Donahue) and Wells Corbett (Bert Convy) court Susan, not knowing that she is a mother. Susan increasingly struggles with the lie she is living with and finds it difficult to keep up the charade especially with the new love in her life.
The Best of Everything, 2h1
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Joan Crawford, Robert Evans, Stephen Boyd
Roles Fred Shalimar
Rating65% 3.29693.29693.29693.29693.2969
Caroline Bender (Lange) is an ambitious young secretary in a publishing firm who, when jilted, finds consolation in the arms of editor Mike Rice (Boyd). Gregg Adams (Parker) is a typist and an aspiring actress romantically involved with stage director David Savage (Jourdan). When the director dumps her, she is devastated, falls from a fire escape while lurking outside his apartment, and dies.
The Swan
The Swan (1956)
, 1h44
Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Jessie Royce Landis, Estelle Winwood, Brian Aherne
Roles Father Carl Hyacinth
Rating64% 3.201433.201433.201433.201433.20143
The film, set in 1910, deals with the story of the daughter of a minor branch of a European royal house who is being considered as a wife for her cousin, the heir to the throne.
Prince Valiant, 1h40
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Gerd Oswald, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films set in the Viking Age, Children's films
Actors James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Sterling Hayden, Victor McLaglen
Roles King Arthur
Rating61% 3.096533.096533.096533.096533.09653
The story begins with the recounting of the forced exile which has befallen the Christian royal family of the Viking kingdom of Scandia - King Aguar (Donald Crisp), his wife, and his son Prince Valiant (Robert Wagner) - by the Viking rebels led by the usurper Sligon (Primo Carnera), a worshipper of the old Norse god pantheon. Aguar has since come under the protection of King Arthur (Brian Aherne), and once Valiant has grown to a man, he is sent to Camelot to undergo training as a knight under the tutelage of Aguar's family friend, the noble knight of the Round Table, Sir Gawain (Sterling Hayden).
A Bullet Is Waiting, 1h30
Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Rory Calhoun, Jean Simmons, Brian Aherne, Stephen McNally
Roles David Canham
Rating55% 2.7608352.7608352.7608352.7608352.760835
A plane crash results in a policeman and his prisoner being stranded in the wilderness.
A Bullet Is Waiting, 1h25
Directed by John Farrow, William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Rory Calhoun, Glenn Ford, Jean Simmons, Brian Aherne, Abbe Lane, Frank Lovejoy
Roles David Canham
Rating56% 2.808132.808132.808132.808132.80813
Texas rancher Sam Dent (Glenn Ford) takes a small herd of three Brahman bulls to Brazil, where he has sold them for a small fortune. There, he finds himself in the middle of a range war, as well as in love. He must find out who are his friends and who are his enemies.
I Confess
I Confess (1953)
, 1h35
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Don Alvarado
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne, O. E. Hasse, Dolly Haas
Roles Willy Robertson
Rating71% 3.5985253.5985253.5985253.5985253.598525
Father Michael Logan (Clift) is a devout Catholic priest in Ste. Marie's Church in Quebec City. He employs German immigrants Otto Keller (O. E. Hasse) and his wife Alma (Dolly Haas) as caretaker and housekeeper. Otto also works part-time as a gardener for a shady lawyer called Villette.
Titanic
Titanic (1953)
, 1h38
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, RMS Titanic in fiction, Children's films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Harper Carter, Thelma Ritter
Roles Capt. Edward John Smith
Rating69% 3.495893.495893.495893.495893.49589
At the last minute, a wealthy American expatriate in Europe, Richard Sturges (Clifton Webb), buys a steerage-class ticket for the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic from a Basque immigrant. Once aboard he seeks out his runaway wife, Julia (Barbara Stanwyck). He discovers she is trying to take their two unsuspecting children, 18-year-old Annette (Audrey Dalton) and ten-year-old Norman (Harper Carter), to her hometown of Mackinac, Michigan, to raise as down-to-earth Americans rather than rootless elitists like Richard himself.
Smart Woman, 1h33
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Brian Aherne, Michael O'Shea, Constance Bennett, James Gleason, Barry Sullivan, Otto Kruger
Roles Robert Larrimore
Rating61% 3.0953853.0953853.0953853.0953853.095385
When a grand jury becomes dissatisfied with the efforts of District Attorney Bradley Wayne (Otto Kruger), it requests a special prosecutor, Robert Larrimore (Brian Aherne).
Angel on the Amazon, 1h26
Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance
Actors George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Fortunio Bonanova, Alfonso Bedoya
Roles Anthony Ridgeway
Rating55% 2.768752.768752.768752.768752.76875
After a plane crashes in the Amazonian jungle, its passengers are rescued by a mysterious young woman.
The Locket
The Locket (1946)
, 1h25
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, Gene Raymond, Sharyn Moffett, Ricardo Cortez
Roles Dr. Harry Blair
Rating70% 3.54363.54363.54363.54363.5436
A story told in a number of flashbacks from different points of view, this psychological drama tells the story of a bride-to-be (Day) who, as a child, was falsely accused of theft. She grows up to become a kleptomaniac, inveterate liar, and eventually a murderess.
First Comes Courage, 1h28
Directed by Dorothy Arzner, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond, Isobel Elsom, Fritz Leiber, Erville Alderson
Roles Capt. Allan Lowell
Rating64% 3.239283.239283.239283.239283.23928
Nicole Larsen (Merle Oberon) is a member of the Norwegian resistance in a small town, about to be married to the Nazi commandant (Carl Esmond). When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him - an assassin who happens to be her former lover, Capt. Allan Lowe (Brian Aherne).