Patrick Allen gained experience as a local radio broadcaster and appeared on television in plays and documentaries, before returning to Britain.
16 Facts About Patrick Allen
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Patrick Allen subsequently appeared in character roles in many films, including Captain Clegg, The Wild Geese, The Sea Wolves, Puppet on a Chain, and Who Dares Wins.
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Patrick Allen was the lead actor in the Associated Rediffusion adventure series Crane and in the BBC-1 series Brett.
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Patrick Allen played Moriarty's deputy Colonel Sebastian Moran in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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Patrick Allen made regular appearances in ITC television series during the 1960s and early 1970s, including The Power Game, The Baron, The Champions, The Avengers, Gideon's Way and UFO, although he never had an ongoing role in any of these series.
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Patrick Allen made one episode of The Saint alongside Roger Moore in "The Man Who Could Not Die" broadcast July 1965 in the UK.
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Patrick Allen worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in a number of stage roles, along with many BBC productions, notably appearing as Mr Gradgrind in a television production of Dickens' Hard Times in 1977.
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Patrick Allen dubbed Leon Greene, who played Rex, in the 1968 Hammer film The Devil Rides Out.
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Patrick Allen narrated the British Government's Protect and Survive series of public information films in the 1970s; some of his lines in that production were re-recorded and sampled into the single "Two Tribes" by the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
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Patrick Allen was the voiceover artist for Vic and Bob's comedy series Vic Reeves Big Night Out, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer and Shooting Stars, and appeared in and voiced numerous commercials for house builder Barratt Homes and car manufacturers Ford and British Leyland among many others.
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Patrick Allen's voice was heard at the beginning of videocassettes distributed in the UK by Video Network in the 1980s, welcoming viewers and reading an anti-copying warning.
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Patrick Allen provided the narration for the 1989 children's series TUGS.
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Patrick Allen was the voice of the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on XFM, the late show on 103.2 Power FM, Hirsty's Daily Dose on Galaxy Yorkshire and briefly Virgin Radio.
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Patrick Allen married actress Sarah Lawson in 1960, together the couple had two sons, Stephen and Stuart.
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Patrick Allen died on the morning of 28 July 2006 at age 79.
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Patrick Allen is survived by his wife and two sons.