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Patric Knowles

Patric Knowles

Birthday: 1911-11-11 | Place of Birth: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patric Knowles, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1973
Arnold

as    Douglas Whitehead

1973
Terror in the Wax Museum

as    Mr. Southcott

1970
Chisum

as    Henry Tunstall

1968
In Enemy Country

as    General Lloyd-Griffis

1958
From the Earth to the Moon

as    Josef Cartier

1958
Auntie Mame

as    Lindsay Woolsey

1957
Band of Angels

as    Charles de Marigny

1955
No Man's Woman

as    Wayne Vincent

1954
World for Ransom

as    Julian March

1952
Mutiny

as    Capt. Ben Waldridge

1952
Tarzan's Savage Fury

as    Edwards, English Traitor

1951
Quebec

as    Charles Douglas

1950
Three Came Home

as    Harry Keith

1949
The Big Steal

as    Jim Fiske

1947
Ivy

as    Dr. Roger Gretorex

1946
O.S.S.

as    Cmdr. Brady

1946
Monsieur Beaucaire

as    Duc le Chandre

1946
Of Human Bondage

as    Harry Griffiths

1946
The Bride Wore Boots

as    Lance Gale

1945
Kitty

as    Brett Harwood Earl of Carstairs

1944
Chip Off the Old Block

as    Commander Judd Corrigan

1943
All by Myself

as    Dr. Bill Perry

1943
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

as    Dr. Frank Mannering

1943
Hit the Ice

as    Dr. William 'Bill' Burns

1942
Lady in a Jam

as    Doctor Enright

1942
The Mystery of Marie Roget

as    Dr. Paul Dupin

1942
Who Done It?

as    Jim Turner

1942
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

as    Private Detective Jerry Church

1941
The Wolf Man

as    Frank Andrews

1941
How Green Was My Valley

as    Ivor Morgan