Patrick Aherne

Patrick Aherne

Born: January 6, 1901
Died: September 30, 1970
in King's Norton, Worcestershire, England, UK

Movies for Patrick Aherne...

Witness for the Prosecution
Title: Witness for the Prosecution
Character: Court Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1957
Type: Movie
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits—but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Character: Handyman (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1956
Type: Movie
A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.
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The Court Jester
Title: The Court Jester
Character: Sir Pertwee
Released: December 24, 1955
Type: Movie
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
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Title: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: TV
Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful dog Yukon King, battling both the elements and criminals.
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Title: The Whistler
Released: July 13, 1954
Type: TV
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Knock on Wood
Title: Knock on Wood
Character: Reporter
Released: April 6, 1954
Type: Movie
Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's dollmaker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen the secret plans for the top-secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, he decides to hide the secret plan in the heads of the dolls.
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The Desert Rats
Title: The Desert Rats
Character: English Officer (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1953
Type: Movie
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
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Rogue's March
Title: Rogue's March
Character: Maj. Wensley
Released: February 13, 1953
Type: Movie
After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Murray
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Title: The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Character: Tenement Landlord (Uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
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Rocketship X-M
Title: Rocketship X-M
Character: Reporter #1
Released: June 2, 1950
Type: Movie
Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determined that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: Jerome Roberts
Released: April 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold.
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A Woman's Vengeance
Title: A Woman's Vengeance
Character: Warder (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1948
Type: Movie
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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Singapore
Title: Singapore
Character: British Officer (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
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Green Dolphin Street
Title: Green Dolphin Street
Character: Kapua-Manga
Released: January 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.
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Dead of Night
Title: Dead of Night
Character: Doctor at Psychiatric Hospital (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
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Warn That Man
Title: Warn That Man
Character: Mellows
Released: July 13, 1943
Type: Movie
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
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Thursday's Child
Title: Thursday's Child
Character: Lance Sheridan (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
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Ask a Policeman
Title: Ask a Policeman
Character: Motorist
Released: April 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
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Q Planes
Title: Q Planes
Character: Officer
Released: February 21, 1939
Type: Movie
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
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The Outcast
Title: The Outcast
Character: Burke
Released: October 29, 1934
Type: Movie
A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
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My Old Duchess
Title: My Old Duchess
Character: Gaston
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
An actor impersonates a duchess – with truly astonishing results for him and his company!
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The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Title: The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Character: Jerry Seymour
Released: April 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
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The Pride of the Force
Title: The Pride of the Force
Character: Max Heinrich
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
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Come Into My Parlour
Title: Come Into My Parlour
Character: Gerry
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A British crime film directed by John Longden
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The City of Play
Title: The City of Play
Character: Richard von Rolf
Released: July 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A British drama film directed by Denison Clift
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Auld Lang Syne
Title: Auld Lang Syne
Character: Angus McTavish
Released: March 31, 1929
Type: Movie
A British musical film directed by George Pearson
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The Silver Lining
Title: The Silver Lining
Character: Thomas Hurst
Released: February 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mother and guilt ridden arranges for a band of gypsies to shoot him.
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Carry On!
Title: Carry On!
Character: Bob Halliday
Released: December 2, 1927
Type: Movie
'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Huntingtower
Title: Huntingtower
Character: Captain John Heritage
Released: December 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a castle. Aided by a gang of Gorbals Die-Hards and a young Englishman, he rescues her from her captors and proves a hero, in spite of his qualms.
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The Cost of Beauty
Title: The Cost of Beauty
Released: July 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A rich woman refuses to bear her husband a child, but adopts a son by his mistress after his death.