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Patric Knowles
🎂 Nov 11, 1911 — 🕯️ Dec 23, 1995 (84 years)
Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
Reginald Lawrence Knowles (11 November 1911 – 23 December 1995) was an English film actor who renamed himself Patric Knowles, a name which reflects his Irish descent. He appeared in films of the 1930s through the 1970s.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
The Way West
1967
The Wolf Man
1941
Auntie Mame
1958
Chisum
1970
Another Thin Man
1939
The Devil's Brigade
1968
How Green Was My Valley
1941
The Big Steal
1949
Band of Angels
1957
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943
The Man
1972
O.S.S.
1946
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936
Lady in a Jam
1942
Crazy House
1943
Forever and a Day
1943
Ivy
1947
Hit the Ice
1943
Kitty
1945
In Enemy Country
1968
Sin Town
1942
Five Came Back
1939
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
1942
The Guv'nor
1935
The Sisters
1938
Expensive Husbands
1937
Arnold
1973
Monsieur Beaucaire
1946
Terror in the Wax Museum
1973
Jamaica Run
1953
Mutiny
1952
Anne of Windy Poplars
1940
Heart of the North
1938
Three Came Home
1950
Women in War
1940
Married and in Love
1940
Masquerade in Mexico
1945
From the Earth to the Moon
1958
World for Ransom
1954
It's Love I'm After
1937
The Patient in Room 18
1938
Four's a Crowd
1938
Dream Girl
1948
Abdul the Damned
1935
Storm Over Bengal
1938
Of Human Bondage
1946
Who Done It?
1942
The Bride Wore Boots
1946
The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942
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1911-11-11 · Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
Reginald Lawrence Knowles (11 November 1911 – 23 December 1995) was an English film actor who renamed himself Patric Knowles, a name which reflects his Irish descent. He appeared in films of the 1930s through the 1970s. He made his film debut in 1933, and played either first or second film leads throughout his career.
In his first American film, Give Me Your Heart (1936), released in Great Britain as Sweet Aloes, Knowles was cast as a titled Englishman of means.
While making The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) at Lone Pine, California, he befriended Errol Flynn, whose acquaintance he had made when both were under contract to Warner Bros. in England. Since that film, in which Knowles played the part of Capt. Perry Vickers, the brother of Flynn's Maj. Geoffrey Vickers, he was cast more frequently as straitlaced characters alongside Flynn's flamboyant ones, notably as Will Scarlet in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Both actors starred as well in Four's A Crowd, also in 1938.
More than two decades after Flynn's death, biographer Charles Higham sullied Flynn's memory by accusing him of having been a fascist sympathizer and Nazi spy. Knowles, who had served in World War II as a flying instructor in the RCAF, came to Flynn's defense, writing Rebuttal for a Friend as an epilogue to Tony Thomas' Errol Flynn: The Spy Who Never Was (Citadel Press, 1990) ISBN 080651180X.
Knowles was a freelance film actor from 1939 until his last film appearance in 1973. In the 1940s, he was known for playing protagonists in a number of horror films, including The Wolf Man (1941) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943).
Knowles was also cast as comic foils in a number of comedies such as Abbott and Costello's Who Done It? (1942) and Hit The Ice (1943). He also appeared opposite Jack Kelly in a 1957 episode of the television series Maverick called "The Wrecker", which was based on a Robert Louis Stevenson adventure and co-starred James Garner.
Knowles was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame and wrote a novel called Even Steven (Vantage Press, 1960) ASIN B0006RMC2G. He was cremated. His ashes were either given to a friend or family.Patric Knowles, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.