Patricia Medina
Acting • Born 1919-07-19 – Died 2012-04-28
Biography
Patricia Paz María Medina(19 July 1919-April 28, 2012) was an English actress, born in Liverpool, England to a Spanish father (Ramón Medina Nebot from Canary Islands) and English mother. She began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s. She worked her way up to leading roles in the mid-1940s, where upon she left for Hollywood. In 1950's Fortunes of Captain Blood, she teamed with British actor Louis Hayward. They subsequently appeared together in 1951's The Lady and the Bandit, Lady in the Iron Mask, and Captain Pirate from 1952. Medina was often typecast in period melodramas such as The Black Knight. Two of her films were William Witney's Stranger at My Door and Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin, based on episodes of the radio series The Adventures of Harry Lime, itself derived from The Third Man film. Medina married British actor Richard Greene on 24 December 1941, in St. James's Church, Spanish Place, London; they divorced in 1951. Medina married Joseph Cotten on 20 October 1960, in Beverly Hills at the home of David O. Selznick and Jennifer Jones. Cotten and she bought an historic 1935 home in the Mesa neighborhood of Palm Springs, California, where they lived from 1985 to 1992. No children were born from either marriage. Medina died at age 92 on 28 April 2012, from natural causes at the Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles, California. She was interred at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia, beside the remains of her husband, Cotten.
Filmography
83 credits
Snow White and the Three Stooges
Movie • 1961
Witch
Children of Chance
Movie • 1949
Agostina
The Black Knight
Movie • 1954
Linet
Miami Exposé
Movie • 1956
Lila Hodges
Captain Pirate
Movie • 1952
Dona Isabella
Francis
Movie • 1950
Maureen Gelder
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Movie • 1954
Jeanette
Mr. Arkadin
Movie • 1955
Mily
Moss Rose
Movie • 1947
Audrey Ashton
Latitude Zero
Movie • 1969
Lucretia
The Killing of Sister George
Movie • 1968
Betty Thaxter
They Met in the Dark
Movie • 1943
Mary, Manicurist (as Pat Medina)
Plunder of the Sun
Movie • 1953
Anna Luz
The Buckskin Lady
Movie • 1957
Angela Medley
The Magic Carpet
Movie • 1951
Lida
Fortunes of Captain Blood
Movie • 1950
Isabelita Sotomayor
Desperate Search
Movie • 1952
Nora Stead
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Movie • 1956
Sarita
Drums of Tahiti
Movie • 1954
Wanda Spence
Stranger at My Door
Movie • 1956
Peg Jarret
Siren of Bagdad
Movie • 1953
Princess Zendi
Duel on the Mississippi
Movie • 1955
Lili Scarlet
Sangaree
Movie • 1953
Martha Darby
Botany Bay
Movie • 1952
Sally Munroe
Pirates of Tripoli
Movie • 1955
Princess Karjan
The Lady and the Bandit
Movie • 1951
Joyce Greene
The Foxes of Harrow
Movie • 1947
Desiree
Uranium Boom
Movie • 1956
Jean Williams
Don't Take It to Heart
Movie • 1944
Lady Mary
The Secret Heart
Movie • 1946
Kay Burns
Valentino
Movie • 1951
Lila Reyes
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 1948
Kitty
Count Your Blessings
Movie • 1959
Albertine
Waltz Time
Movie • 1945
Cenci Prohaska
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Movie • 1945
Joan Dodd
The Fighting O'Flynn
Movie • 1949
Fancy Free
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
Movie • 1999
Self
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Movie • 1950
Nicole Dupre
The Day Will Dawn
Movie • 1942
Ingrid
Battle of the V-1
Movie • 1958
Zofia
Double or Quits
Movie • 1938
Caroline
Simply Terrific
Movie • 1938
Heather Carfax
Crook's Tour
Movie • 1940
Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
Hotel Reserve
Movie • 1944
Odette Roux
Lady in the Iron Mask
Movie • 1952
Princess Anne / Princess Louise
Aladdin and His Lamp
Movie • 1952
Princess Jasmine
The Jackpot
Movie • 1950
Hilda Jones
The Red Cloak
Movie • 1955
Laura Lanfranchi
Timber Tramps
Movie • 1975
Miami Lills
Mr. Satan
Movie • 1938
A Girl
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Serena Diablo
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Jenny Stapleton
Mannix
TV • 1967
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Harriet Balfour
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Marie-Claire
Zorro
TV • 1957
To Rome with Love
TV • 1969
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Ruthanne Harper
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Thriller
TV • 1960
Nadja
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Millicent
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Lisa de Beck
Climax!
TV • 1954
Laura
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Mme. Celeste Soulange
Grindl
TV • 1963
Black Saddle
TV • 1959
Carla Doyle
Branded
TV • 1965
Lock-Up
TV • 1959
The Rebel
TV • 1959
Cynthia Kenyon
Riverboat
TV • 1959
Eileen Mason
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
TV • 1956
Tightrope
TV • 1959
Coronado 9
TV • 1960
The Third Man
TV • 1959
Kraft Mystery Theatre
TV • 1961
The Rogues
TV • 1964
Countess Marissa Maricelli
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Lucia Belmont
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Bathsheba
Thriller
TV • 1960
Victorine Lafourcade
The Rebel
TV • 1959
Lupe
Climax!
TV • 1954
Liz Burdock
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Wife
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Isabella Maria Ynez Y Castra De La Cuesta / Rosita Morales