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.

Patric Knowles

Patric Knowles

Biography

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Chisum

How Green Was My Valley

The Wolf Man

The Way West

The Devil's Brigade

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

The Thief

Another Thin Man

Hit the Ice

Variety Girl

Quebec

The Wolfman

Tarzan's Savage Fury

Of Human Bondage

The Guv'nor

Always a Bridesmaid

The Honeymoon's Over

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Terror in the Wax Museum

Three Came Home

Expensive Husbands

Five Came Back

Forever and a Day

Auntie Mame

Arnold

Isn't It Romantic?

It's Love I'm After

Four's a Crowd

The Man

Chip Off the Old Block

The Big Steal

O.S.S.

Who Done It?

Breakdowns of 1938

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

Storm Over Bengal

Six Gun Law

Kitty

The Bride Wore Boots

Crazy House

Monsieur Beaucaire

The Patient in Room 18

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

World for Ransom

Ivy

Married and in Love

The Sisters

Beauty for the Asking

Anne of Windy Poplars

In Enemy Country

A Bill of Divorcement

This Is the Life

Sin Town

Crown v. Stevens

Band of Angels

No Man's Woman

Irish for Luck

Mutiny

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Lady in a Jam

The Mystery of Marie Roget

The D.A.: Murder One

All by Myself

Women in War

Flame of Calcutta

The Spellbinder

Heart of the North

From the Earth to the Moon

Pardon My Rhythm

Dream Girl

Give Me Your Heart

Abdul the Damned

Jamaica Run

Fair Exchange

Khyber Patrol

The Girl in the Crowd