Patric Knowles
Age: 84 | From: Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1911-11-11 02:23:51
Death: 1995-12-23 02:23:51
Aliases: Reginald Lawrence Knowles , Pat Knowles
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 50
TV Involvements: 10
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Lux Video Theatre
(1950) Bert
Robert Montgomery Presents
(1950) Self - Guest Host
Gunsmoke
(1955) MacIntosh
The Adventures of Robin Hood
(1938) Will Scarlett
Chisum
(1970) Henry Tunstall
Studio One
(1948) Martin Helm
The Millionaire
(1955) Martin Scott
The United States Steel Hour
(1953) Richard VoysonActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1973 | Douglas Whitehead | |
| Mr. Southcott | ||
| 1972 | South African Consul | |
| 1971 | N/A | |
| 1970 | Henry Tunstall | |
| 1969 | Charles Lloyd | |
| 1968 | General Lloyd-Griffis | |
| Adm. Lord Mountbatten | ||
| 1967 | N/A | |
| Captain Grant | ||
| 1966 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Frank Andrews | ||
| 1964 | N/A | |
| 1962 | N/A | |
| 1960 | Simon Lambert | |
| 1959 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1958 | Lindsay Woolsey | |
| Josef Cartier | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1957 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Charles de Marigny | ||
| 1956 | N/A | |
| 1955 | N/A | |
| Wayne Vincent | ||
| N/A | ||
| MacIntosh | ||
| Martin Scott | ||
| Philippe Voyson | ||
| 1954 | George Kennely | |
| N/A | ||
| Julian March | ||
| 1953 | Richard Voyson | |
| Capt. Keith Lambert | ||
| William Montague | ||
| Longridge | ||
| George Spence | ||
| Manson (uncredited) | ||
| 1952 | Edwards, English Traitor | |
| Capt. Ben Waldridge | ||
| 1951 | Paul Maynard | |
| John Stacey | ||
| N/A | ||
| Charles Douglas | ||
| 1950 | Corey Hill | |
| Mr. Morley | ||
| Barclay | ||
| Bert | ||
| Harry Keith | ||
| Self - Guest Host | ||
| 1949 | Jim Fiske | |
| 1948 | Martin Helm | |
| N/A | ||
| Richard Brannon | ||
| Jim Lucas | ||
| 1947 | Patric Knowles | |
| Roger Gretorex | ||
| 1946 | Duc le Chandre | |
| Harry Griffiths | ||
| N/A | ||
| Lance Gale | ||
| Cmdr. Brady | ||
| 1945 | Thomas Grant | |
| Brett Harwood Earl of Carstairs | ||
| 1944 | Maj. Hilary Jarret | |
| Anthony "Tony" Page | ||
| Commander Judd Corrigan | ||
| 1943 | Edmund 'Mac' MacLean | |
| Tony Warren | ||
| Dr. Bill Perry | ||
| Dr. William 'Bill' Burns | ||
| Dr. Frank Mannering | ||
| Trimble-Pomfret Son | ||
| 1942 | Jim Turner | |
| Wade Crowell | ||
| Doctor Enright | ||
| Dr. Paul Dupin | ||
| Private Detective Jerry Church | ||
| 1941 | Frank Andrews | |
| Ivor Morgan | ||
| 1940 | Gilbert Blythe | |
| Lt. Larry Hall | ||
| John Storm | ||
| Paul Wilding | ||
| 1939 | Dudley Horn | |
| Tom Dixon | ||
| Judson Ellis | ||
| Denny Williams | ||
| Capt. Condon | ||
| 1938 | Patterson Buckley (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Jim Montgomery | ||
| Captain Jeffrey Allison | ||
| Norman French | ||
| Patterson 'Pat' Buckley | ||
| Will Scarlett | ||
| Lance O'Leary | ||
| 1937 | Prince Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau | |
| Henry Grant Jr. | ||
| 1936 | Captain Perry Vickers | |
| Robert 'Bob' Melford | ||
| Chris Jensen | ||
| John Gillespie | ||
| 1935 | Paul | |
| Omar - Hilmi's Attache | ||
| Harry Markham | ||
| Max Brandt | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
