Patrick Aherne

Birth : 1901-01-06, King's Norton, Worcestershire, England, UK

Death : 1970-09-30

Movies

Witness for the Prosecution
Court Officer (uncredited)
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.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Handyman (uncredited)
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.
The Court Jester
Sir Pertwee
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.
Knock On Wood
Reporter (uncredited)
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.
The Desert Rats
English Officer (uncredited)
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.
Rogue's March
Maj. Wensley
After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Tenement Landlord (Uncredited)
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.
Rocketship X-M
Reporter #1
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.
The Challenge
Jerome Roberts
Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold.
A Woman's Vengeance
Warder (uncredited)
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
Green Dolphin Street
Kapua-Manga
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.
Dead of Night
Doctor at Psychiatric Hospital (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
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.
Warn That Man
Mellows
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.
Thursday's Child
Lance Sheridan (uncredited)
A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
Ask a Policeman
Motorist
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.
Q Planes
Officer
An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.
The Outcast
Burke
A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
My Old Duchess
Gaston
An actor impersonates a duchess – with truly astonishing results for him and his company!
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Jerry Seymour
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
The Pride of the Force
Max Heinrich
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!
Come Into My Parlour
Gerry
A British crime film directed by John Longden
The City of Play
Richard von Rolf
A British drama film directed by Denison Clift
Auld Lang Syne
Angus McTavish
A British musical film directed by George Pearson
The Silver Lining
Thomas Hurst
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.
The Cost of Beauty
A rich woman refuses to bear her husband a child, but adopts a son by his mistress after his death.