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