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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 11, 1911
Died
December 23, 1995
Place of Birth
Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Reginald Lawrence Knowles
- Pat Knowles
Patric Knowles
1.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.9
Self (archive footage)
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999
5.1
Douglas Whitehead
Arnold
1973
5.1
Mr. Southcott
Terror in the Wax Museum
1973
6.3
South African Consul
The Man
1972
🎬
5.0
Getting Together
1971
6.7
Henry Tunstall
Chisum
1970
0.0
Charles Lloyd
The D.A.: Murder One
1969
7.7
General Lloyd-Griffis
In Enemy Country
1968
6.3
Adm. Lord Mountbatten
The Devil's Brigade
1968
7.8
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
Credits
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
as Self (archive footage)
1999
6.9
Arnold
as Douglas Whitehead
1973
5.1
Terror in the Wax Museum
as Mr. Southcott
1973
5.1
The Man
as South African Consul
1972
6.3
🎬
Getting Together
1971
5.0
Chisum
as Henry Tunstall
1970
6.7
The D.A.: Murder One
as Charles Lloyd
1969
0.0
In Enemy Country
as General Lloyd-Griffis
1968
7.7
The Devil's Brigade
as Adm. Lord Mountbatten
1968
6.3
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
7.8
The Way West
as Captain Grant
1967
6.1
Jericho
1966
6.5
Family Affair
1966
6.7
Mona McCluskey
as Trevor Blake
1965
5.0
Mickey
1964
6.0
Six Gun Law
1962
6.7
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Simon Lambert
1960
6.2
Hawaiian Eye
1959
5.2
Tightrope
1959
5.5
Auntie Mame
as Lindsay Woolsey
1958
7.0
From the Earth to the Moon
as Josef Cartier
1958
5.1
77 Sunset Strip
1958
6.7
Peter Gunn
1958
6.4
Maverick
1957
6.9
Maverick
as Paul Carthew
1957
6.9
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
Band of Angels
as Charles de Marigny
1957
6.2
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
1956
5.0
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
No Man's Woman
as Wayne Vincent
1955
4.8
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
5.4
Gunsmoke
as MacIntosh
1955
6.6
The Millionaire
as Martin Scott
1955
5.0
The Thief
as Philippe Voyson
1955
4.0
Khyber Patrol
as George Kennely
1954
7.0
🎬
The Whistler
1954
0.0
World for Ransom
as Julian March
1954
5.0
The United States Steel Hour
as Richard Voyson
1953
6.2
Flame of Calcutta
as Capt. Keith Lambert
1953
0.0
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
0.0
Jamaica Run
as William Montague
1953
5.0
General Electric Theater
as Longridge
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as George Spence
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Manson (uncredited)
1953
6.4
Tarzan's Savage Fury
as Edwards
1952
5.1
Mutiny
as Capt. Ben Waldridge
1952
4.8
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Paul Maynard
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as John Stacey
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Quebec
as Charles Douglas
1951
0.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Corey Hill
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Barclay
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Bert
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Mr. Morley
1950
6.3
Three Came Home
as Harry Keith
1950
6.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Self - Guest Host
1950
5.6
Lights Out
1949
5.8
The Big Steal
as Jim Fiske
1949
6.5
Studio One
as Martin Helm
1948
5.0
Studio One
1948
5.0
Isn't It Romantic?
as Richard Brannon
1948
7.0
Dream Girl
as Jim Lucas
1948
4.4
Variety Girl
as Patric Knowles
1947
6.1
Ivy
as Dr. Roger Gretorex
1947
6.6
Monsieur Beaucaire
as Duc le Chandre
1946
5.4
Of Human Bondage
as Harry Griffiths
1946
6.0
The Bride Wore Boots
as Lance Gale
1946
5.9
O.S.S.
as Cmdr. Brady
1946
6.4
Masquerade in Mexico
as Thomas Grant
1945
5.4
Kitty
as Brett Harwood Earl of Carstairs
1945
5.5
This Is the Life
as Maj. Hilary Jarret
1944
5.0
Pardon My Rhythm
as Anthony "Tony" Page
1944
5.5
Chip Off the Old Block
as Commander Judd Corrigan
1944
4.0
Crazy House
as Edmund 'Mac' MacLean
1943
5.0
Always a Bridesmaid
as Tony Warren
1943
0.0
All by Myself
as Dr. Bill Perry
1943
0.0
Hit the Ice
as Dr. William 'Bill' Burns
1943
5.9
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
as Dr. Frank Mannering
1943
6.2
Forever and a Day
as Trimble-Pomfret Son
1943
7.4
Who Done It?
as Jim Turner
1942
7.0
Sin Town
as Wade Crowell
1942
3.7
Lady in a Jam
as Doctor Enright
1942
5.3
The Mystery of Marie Roget
as Dr. Paul Dupin
1942
5.5
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
as Private Detective Jerry Church
1942
5.1
The Wolf Man
as Frank Andrews
1941
7.0
How Green Was My Valley
as Ivor Morgan
1941
7.3
Anne of Windy Poplars
as Gilbert Blythe
1940
5.8
Women in War
as Lt. Larry Hall
1940
4.8
A Bill of Divorcement
as John Storm
1940
7.0
Married and in Love
as Paul Wilding
1940
5.4
Another Thin Man
as Dudley Horn
1939
7.1
The Spellbinder
as Tom Dixon
1939
6.0
Five Came Back
as Judson Ellis
1939
6.2
Beauty for the Asking
as Denny Williams
1939
5.2
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
as Capt. Condon
1939
6.0
Breakdowns of 1938
as Patterson Buckley (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
4.7
Heart of the North
as Jim Montgomery
1938
3.7
Storm Over Bengal
as Captain Jeffrey Allison
1938
5.3
The Sisters
as Norman French
1938
5.8
Four's a Crowd
as Patterson 'Pat' Buckley
1938
4.8
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Will Scarlett
1938
7.5
The Patient in Room 18
as Lance O'Leary
1938
4.5
Expensive Husbands
as Prince Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau
1937
4.8
It's Love I'm After
as Henry Grant Jr.
1937
7.0
Two's Company
as Lord Jerry Wendower
1936
0.0
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Captain Perry Vickers
1936
6.5
Give Me Your Heart
as Robert 'Bob' Melford
1936
5.3
🎬
Fair Exchange
as Tony Meredith
1936
0.0
Crown v. Stevens
as Chris Jensen
1936
6.3
The Brown Wallet
as John Gillespie
1936
0.0
The Guv'nor
as Paul
1935
7.3
Abdul the Damned
as Omar - Hilmi's Attache
1935
5.3
Honours Easy
as Harry Markham
1935
0.0
🎬
The Girl in the Crowd
as Tom Burrows
1935
0.0
The Student's Romance
as Max Brandt
1935
5.0