Cast
Patric Knowles
Acting
Cast
Patric Knowles
Known for
Acting
Born
1911-11-11
From
Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died
1995-12-23
Also known as Reginald Lawrence Knowles, Pat Knowles
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.
Chisum
as Henry Tunstall
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Will Scarlett
The Wolf Man
as Frank Andrews
Arnold
as Douglas Whitehead
The Way West
as Captain Grant
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
as Dr. Frank Mannering
Kitty
as Brett Harwood Earl of Carstairs
Jamaica Run
as William Montague
Auntie Mame
as Lindsay Woolsey
The Devil's Brigade
as Adm. Lord Mountbatten
How Green Was My Valley
as Ivor Morgan
Quebec
as Charles Douglas
Crazy House
as Edmund 'Mac' MacLean
Variety Girl
as Patric Knowles
The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Dr. Paul Dupin
Five Came Back
as Judson Ellis
Another Thin Man
as Dudley Horn
Mutiny
as Capt. Ben Waldridge
Band of Angels
as Charles de Marigny
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Captain Perry Vickers
It's Love I'm After
as Henry Grant Jr.
Ivy
as Dr. Roger Gretorex
The Sisters
as Norman French
Who Done It?
as Jim Turner
From the Earth to the Moon
as Josef Cartier
Hit the Ice
as Dr. William 'Bill' Burns
O.S.S.
as Cmdr. Brady
Breakdowns of 1938
as Patterson Buckley (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
as Private Detective Jerry Church
Terror in the Wax Museum
as Mr. Southcott
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
as Self (archive footage)
The Patient in Room 18
as Lance O'Leary
Tarzan's Savage Fury
as Edwards
The Spellbinder
as Tom Dixon
Lady in a Jam
as Doctor Enright
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
as Capt. Condon
Forever and a Day
as Trimble-Pomfret Son
Heart of the North
as Jim Montgomery
World for Ransom
as Julian March
The Man
as South African Consul
In Enemy Country
as General Lloyd-Griffis
The Big Steal
as Jim Fiske
The Thief
as Philippe Voyson
Four's a Crowd
as Patterson 'Pat' Buckley
Three Came Home
as Harry Keith
Sin Town
as Wade Crowell
Six Gun Law
Women in War
as Lt. Larry Hall
The Bride Wore Boots
as Lance Gale
The D.A.: Murder One
as Charles Lloyd
Monsieur Beaucaire
as Duc le Chandre
Anne of Windy Poplars
as Gilbert Blythe
Of Human Bondage
as Harry Griffiths
Fair Exchange
as Tony Meredith
Crown v. Stevens
as Chris Jensen
Storm Over Bengal
as Captain Jeffrey Allison
Beauty for the Asking
as Denny Williams
Dream Girl
as Jim Lucas
Flame of Calcutta
as Capt. Keith Lambert
A Bill of Divorcement
as John Storm
This Is the Life
as Maj. Hilary Jarret
The Brown Wallet
as John Gillespie
Chip Off the Old Block
as Commander Judd Corrigan
Always a Bridesmaid
as Tony Warren
All by Myself
as Dr. Bill Perry
No Man's Woman
as Wayne Vincent
Masquerade in Mexico
as Thomas Grant
Abdul the Damned
as Omar - Hilmi's Attache
Khyber Patrol
as George Kennely
Married and in Love
as Paul Wilding
The Student's Romance
as Max Brandt
The Girl in the Crowd
as Tom Burrows
The Wolfman
as Frank Andrews
Isn't It Romantic?
as Richard Brannon
Give Me Your Heart
as Robert 'Bob' Melford
Expensive Husbands
as Prince Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau
The Honeymoon's Over
as Pat Shields
The Guv'nor
as Paul
Two's Company
as Lord Jerry Wendower
Pardon My Rhythm
as Anthony "Tony" Page
Honours Easy
as Harry Markham
Irish for Luck
as Terry O'Ryan