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.

Filmography

• 2023Blackadder: The Lost Pilot — Pilot Narrator
• 2008The War File: Hitler's War — Narrator
• 2006The Official Story of the British Army — Narrator
• 2005Heroes of the Second World War — Narrator
• 2005Hitler's War — Narrator
• Days That Shook the World — Sir John French
• Dare To Believe
• 2002The War File: Battleships at War — Narrator
• 2002The War File: Great Sea Battles of World War Two — Narrator
• 2002The War File: Tank Battles: El Alamein to the Volga — Narrator
• 2001Story of the Spitfire — Narrator
• 2001The Hawker Hurricane — Narrator
• 1997The Conquest of Everest 1953 — Narrator
• 1995Bullet to Beijing — Colonel Wilson
• Body & Soul — Walter Street
• The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
• 1992Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors — Maj. Ronald Ferguson
• 1991The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police — Narrator
• 1990D-Day: Assault on Fortress Europe — Narrator
• 1990Naked Down Under — Opening Narrator (voice)
• The Occult History of the Third Reich — Narrator (voice)
• TUGS — Captain Star / Narrator (voice)
• 1987Love After Lunch — Harold Hagdorff
• 1987Roman Holiday — General
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Colonel Sebastian Moran
• 1985The Thirteenth Day of Christmas — Gilbert Smith
• Time for Murder — Gilbert Smith
• 1984Pericles, Prince of Tyre — King Simonides
• Sherlock Holmes — Colonel Sebastian Moran
• 1984Threads — Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
• Blackadder — Narrator, The Hawk
• 1983The Forgotten Voyage: The Story of Alfred Russel Wallace — Sir James Brooke
• The Winds of War — Dowding
• 1982Murder Is Easy — Maj. Horton
• 1982Who Dares Wins — Police Commissioner
• A Spy at Evening — Mansfield
• Bergerac — Sir Gervase Ewell
• 1980Alien Attack — Luna Commission Chairman
• 1980Invasion: UFO — Turner
• 1980The Sea Wolves — Colin Mackenzie
• 1980The Trial of Lady Chatterley — Gerald Gardiner QC
• 1979Churchill and the Generals — Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck
• Kidnapped — Prestongrange
• 1979Lady Oscar
• 1978Aerial Ambassador
• Scorpion Tales — Cummings
• 1978The Wild Geese — Rushton
• Hard Times — Thomas Gradgrind
• 1977The Domino Principle — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• Dangerous Knowledge — Fane
• 1976Protect and Survive — Narrator
• 1976The Eagle Has Landed — Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• 1975The Wilby Conspiracy — District Commissioner
• Churchill's People — Donald MacAmnay
• 1974Persecution — Robert Masters
• 1974Sign It Death — Richard Main
• 1973Diamonds on Wheels — Insp. Cook
• Thriller — Richard Main
• The Protectors — James Leroy Mallory
• Van der Valk — Van Teeseling
• Brett
• 1971Erotic Fantasies — Psychiatrist (voice)
• Codename — Morgan
• 1970Puppet on a Chain — Inspector Van Gelder
• UFO — Turner
• 1970When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth — Kingsor
• 1969Cream: Farewell Concert — Narrator (voice)
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Chertkov
• 1969Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt — Commentator
• 1969The Body Stealers — Bob Megan
• 1968All My Loving — Narrator (voice)
• 1968Carry On Up the Khyber — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• 1968Journey Into Darkness — Luther Ames
• Journey to the Unknown — Luther Ames
• 1968The Big Switch — The Storyteller (voice)
• The Champions — Westerman
• 1968The Devil Rides Out — Rex Van Ryan (voice)
• 1967Carry On Doctor — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• 1967Don't Lose Your Head — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• Man in a Suitcase
• 1967Night of the Big Heat — Jeff Callum
• 1967The Night of the Generals — Colonel Mannheim
• 1967Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond — Narrator
• 1966Dead Silence — Chief Insp. Newton
• BBC Play of the Month — Roger Quaife
• Gideon's Way — 'Spender Todd'
• 1965The Big Job — Narrator
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Peter Roke
• 1964A Midsummer Night's Dream — Theseus
• The Wednesday Play — Don Giovanni, The Man
• Theatre 625 — Julien / Danton
• 1963As You Like It — Orlando
• Crane
• Crane — Richard Crane
• 1962Captain Clegg — Captain Collier
• 1962Flight from Singapore — John Scott
• Out of This World — Major Peters
• The Saint — Miles Hallin
• 1962The Traitors — John Lane
• 1961Candida — Rev. James Mavor Morrell
• Sir Francis Drake — Navarre
• Survival
• The Avengers
• 1961The Sinister Man — Dr. Nelson Pollard
• 1960Never Take Sweets from a Stranger — Peter Carter
• Sunday-Night Play — Capt. Sasha Studzinsky
• International Detective — Lieutenant Larkin
• 1959Jet Storm — Allan Mulliner
• No Hiding Place
• 1958Dunkirk — Sergeant on Parade Ground
• 1958High Hell — Luke Fulgham
• 1958I Was Monty's Double — Col. Mathers
• 1958The Man Who Wouldn't Talk — Jim Kennedy
• 1958Tread Softly Stranger — Paddy Ryan
• 1957High Tide at Noon — Charles MacKenzie
• Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! — Corporal Brunowski
• 1957The Long Haul — Joe Easy
• 1957The Mark of the Hawk — Gregory
• 19561984 — Inner Party Official
• Armchair Theatre — Chief Insp. Newton
• 1956The Baby and the Battleship — Mate
• 1956Wicked as They Come — Willie
• 1955Confession — Corey
• 1955Cross Channel — Hugo Platt
• 1954Dial M for Murder — Detective Pearson
• 1954World for Ransom
• Sunday Night Theatre — Eddie Kirkley, Captain Coombe, Major Coombe
• The Video Encyclopedia of World War Two 2008 — Presenter

Appearances as themselves (5)

• The Video Encyclopedia of World War Two — Self - Narrator
• 2005Unsolved Mysteries Of The Second World War - The Enigma Of Swastika / The Eagle And The Swastika — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1970The World at Their Feet — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1969What's a Girl Like You? — Self - Narrator
• 1967Benjamin Britten and His Festival — Self - Narrator (voice)