Brian Aherne

Brian Aherne

Nascimento : 1902-05-02, King's Norton, Worcestershire, England, UK

Morte : 1986-02-10

História

English born Brian Aherne (born William Brian de Lacy Aherne) was a stage, screen, and television actor successful in America.

Perfil

Brian Aherne
Brian Aherne

Filmes

Rosie!
Oliver Stevenson
An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.
The Cavern
General Braithwaite
Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?
The Waltz King
Johann Strauss (Vater)
A look at the life of Johann Strauss, Jr., beginning when, as a boy, he earns his famous father’s displeasure when he tries his hand at composing. But he eventually proves to his father and the world that he is a fine musician.
Lancelot, o Cavaleiro de Ferro
King Arthur
In and around the castle Camelot, brave Cornel Wilde (as Lancelot) and virtuous Brian Aherne (as King Arthur) vie for the affections of lovely Jean Wallace (as Guinevere).
O Erro de Susan Slade
Stanton Corbett
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own.
Sob o Signo do Sexo
Fred Shalimar
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
O Cisne
Father Carl Hyacinth
Europa Central, 1910. Os dias de realeza da princesa Beatrice (Jessie Roce Landis) estão com os dias contados, a menos que sua única filha, a princesa Alexandra (Grace Kelly), cause uma boa impressão em um primo distante, Albert (Alec Guinness), um príncipe herdeiro que há 23 anos Beatrice não vê e que resolveu chegar repentinamente. Albert tem procurado uma noiva por toda a Europa. Ele está entediado em ter de rotineiramente namorar princesas e se mostra mais interessado no meio de ordenhar vacas, que existe na propriedade onde Alexandra mora, do que no jardim de rosas dela. Porém ele começa a sentir ciúmes de Nicholas Agi (Louis Jourdan), o tutor de Alexandra, pois sente claramente que ela está muito atraída por Nicholas e é correspondida.
A Bullet Is Waiting
David Canham
A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a struggle, only to be taken in hand by the female manager of a remote sheep ranch.
Prince Valiant
King Arthur
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
Náufragos do Titanic
Capt. Edward John Smith
1912. Julia Sturges (Barbara Stanwyck), uma socialite, embarca no Titanic acompanhada pelos filhos, Annette (Audrey Dalton) e Norman (Harper Carter), e deixa para trás o marido, Richard Ward Sturges (Clifton Webb). Julia está cansada do estilo sofisticado do seu esposo e planeja viver nos Estados Unidos com os filhos. Richard arruma um jeito de embarcar no último minuto e descobre que Julia quer se divorciar dele. Eles acabam discutindo e coisas duras são ditas, mas quando o Titanic bate num iceberg e começa a afundar todos os problemas deles se tornam bem pequenos.
A Tortura do Silêncio
Willy Robertson
Em A Tortura do Silêncio, o padre Michael Logan (Montgomery Clift), aparentemente um modelo da piedade religiosa, ouve a confissão de um assassino. Testemunhar o ocorrido a partir do ponto de vista do matador e as normas da igreja impedem Logan de falar - mesmo que seja em sua própria defesa - quando evidências circunstanciais apontam o padre como o principal suspeito!
Angel on the Amazon
Anthony Ridgeway
An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.
Smart Woman
Robert Larrimore
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
Angústia
Dr. Harry Blair
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
What a Woman
Henry Pepper
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
First Comes Courage
Capt. Allan Lowell
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
Forever and a Day
Jim Trimble
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
A Night to Remember
Jeff Troy / Jeff Yort
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
Solteiras às Soltas
Robert Baker
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.
Skylark
Jim Blake
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something a bit more serious.
Smilin' Through
Sir John Carteret
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt. Kathleen meets and falls in love with a mysterious stranger from America, Kenneth Wayne. When John hears of this he is furious, and we learn that it was Kenneth's father, Jeremy, who had killed Moonyean years before. John carries his grudge against Jeremy to the new generation, and threatens to ruin his niece's happiness, but he softens in the end.
The Man Who Lost Himself
John Evans / Malcolm Scott
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
Hired Wife
Stephen Dexter
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
Protegida de Papai
Andre Morestan
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
My Son, My Son!
William Essex
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
Vigil in the Night
Dr. Robert S. Prescott
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
Juarez
Emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
Captain Fury
Captain Michael Fury
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
Sua Excelência, O Chofer
E. Wade Rawlins
A maluca matrona da sociedade Emily Kilbourne tem o hábito de contratar ex-presidiários e vagabundos como criados. Sua última descoberta é um belo 'vagabundo' que aparece na sua porta e logo acaba em um uniforme de motorista. Ele também chama a atenção da linda Geraldine. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
O Grande Garrick
David Garrick
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
Beloved Enemy
Dennis Riordan
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
Vivendo em Dúvida
Michael Fane
When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.
Só Assim Quero Viver
Terence 'Terry' O'Neill
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
What Every Woman Knows
John Shand
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
The Fountain
Lewis Allison
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.
The Constant Nymph
Lewis Dodd
Second of three versions of Margaret Kennedy’s novel about a sickly, sensitive Belgian schoolgirl, Tessa (Victoria Hopper), in love with world-famous composer Lewis Dodd (Brian Aherne), who marries her wealthy cousin Florence (Leonora Corbett). Undermining the already delicate Tessa’s health, the composer realises that life without Tessa is unbearable and leaves his unloving wife – but sadly too late.
O Cântico dos Cânticos
Richard Waldow
After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she sneaks across the street to model for Richard, a sculptor with whom she falls in love. A patron of Richard's, Baron von Merzbach, develops an interest in Lily that may not be with the best of intentions.
Madame Guillotine
Louis Dubois
During the French Revolution, a revolutionary falls in love with and marries an aristocratic woman.
The W Plan
Col. Duncan Grant
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
Underground
Bill
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men - gentle Bill and brash Bert - meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn't the type to take rejection lightly...
Shooting Stars
Julian Gordon
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.
King of the Castle
Colin O'Farrell
'A widowed lady, forced into marriage, grows to love her husband when he saves a child from the cliff.' (BFI Filmography)
The Eleventh Commandment
Norman Barchester
An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise. Based on the play The Pillory by Brandon Fleming.