Patric Knowles
Acting • Born 1911-11-11 – Died 1995-12-23
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.
Filmography
118 credits
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Movie • 1943
Dr. Frank Mannering
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Movie • 1938
Will Scarlett
Flame of Calcutta
Movie • 1953
Capt. Keith Lambert
Hit the Ice
Movie • 1943
Dr. William 'Bill' Burns
The Wolf Man
Movie • 1941
Frank Andrews
World for Ransom
Movie • 1954
Julian March
Honours Easy
Movie • 1935
Harry Markham
Crazy House
Movie • 1943
Edmund 'Mac' MacLean
Another Thin Man
Movie • 1939
Dudley Horn
The Way West
Movie • 1967
Captain Grant
How Green Was My Valley
Movie • 1941
Ivor Morgan
Band of Angels
Movie • 1957
Charles de Marigny
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Movie • 1936
Captain Perry Vickers
Ivy
Movie • 1947
Dr. Roger Gretorex
From the Earth to the Moon
Movie • 1958
Josef Cartier
Auntie Mame
Movie • 1958
Lindsay Woolsey
Chisum
Movie • 1970
Henry Tunstall
Four's a Crowd
Movie • 1938
Patterson 'Pat' Buckley
Who Done It?
Movie • 1942
Jim Turner
Five Came Back
Movie • 1939
Judson Ellis
The Big Steal
Movie • 1949
Jim Fiske
No Man's Woman
Movie • 1955
Wayne Vincent
Tarzan's Savage Fury
Movie • 1952
Edwards
The Patient in Room 18
Movie • 1938
Lance O'Leary
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Movie • 1942
Private Detective Jerry Church
O.S.S.
Movie • 1946
Cmdr. Brady
Three Came Home
Movie • 1950
Harry Keith
A Bill of Divorcement
Movie • 1940
John Storm
Sin Town
Movie • 1942
Wade Crowell
It's Love I'm After
Movie • 1937
Henry Grant Jr.
Beauty for the Asking
Movie • 1939
Denny Williams
Kitty
Movie • 1945
Brett Harwood Earl of Carstairs
Crown v. Stevens
Movie • 1936
Chris Jensen
Lady in a Jam
Movie • 1942
Doctor Enright
Variety Girl
Movie • 1947
Patric Knowles
Anne of Windy Poplars
Movie • 1940
Gilbert Blythe
Arnold
Movie • 1973
Douglas Whitehead
Of Human Bondage
Movie • 1946
Harry Griffiths
Married and in Love
Movie • 1940
Paul Wilding
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Movie • 1939
Capt. Condon
Quebec
Movie • 1951
Charles Douglas
Khyber Patrol
Movie • 1954
George Kennely
Give Me Your Heart
Movie • 1936
Robert 'Bob' Melford
Heart of the North
Movie • 1938
Jim Montgomery
The Bride Wore Boots
Movie • 1946
Lance Gale
The Man
Movie • 1972
South African Consul
Dream Girl
Movie • 1948
Jim Lucas
Mutiny
Movie • 1952
Capt. Ben Waldridge
Isn't It Romantic?
Movie • 1948
Richard Brannon
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Movie • 1942
Dr. Paul Dupin
Women in War
Movie • 1940
Lt. Larry Hall
The Spellbinder
Movie • 1939
Tom Dixon
Expensive Husbands
Movie • 1937
Prince Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau
Chip Off the Old Block
Movie • 1944
Commander Judd Corrigan
Monsieur Beaucaire
Movie • 1946
Duc le Chandre
Abdul the Damned
Movie • 1935
Omar - Hilmi's Attache
Jamaica Run
Movie • 1953
William Montague
Masquerade in Mexico
Movie • 1945
Thomas Grant
The D.A.: Murder One
Movie • 1969
Charles Lloyd
This Is the Life
Movie • 1944
Maj. Hilary Jarret
The Sisters
Movie • 1938
Norman French
All by Myself
Movie • 1943
Dr. Bill Perry
Storm Over Bengal
Movie • 1938
Captain Jeffrey Allison
Always a Bridesmaid
Movie • 1943
Tony Warren
The Girl in the Crowd
Movie • 1935
Tom Burrows
Forever and a Day
Movie • 1943
Trimble-Pomfret Son
The Student's Romance
Movie • 1935
Max Brandt
Fair Exchange
Movie • 1936
Tony Meredith
The Guv'nor
Movie • 1935
Paul
Terror in the Wax Museum
Movie • 1973
Mr. Southcott
The Thief
Movie • 1955
Philippe Voyson
The Brown Wallet
Movie • 1936
John Gillespie
In Enemy Country
Movie • 1968
General Lloyd-Griffis
Breakdowns of 1938
Movie • 1938
Patterson Buckley (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pardon My Rhythm
Movie • 1944
Anthony "Tony" Page
Six Gun Law
Movie • 1962
The Devil's Brigade
Movie • 1968
Adm. Lord Mountbatten
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)
Two's Company
Movie • 1936
Lord Jerry Wendower
The Wolfman
Movie • 1966
Frank Andrews
The Honeymoon's Over
Movie • 1939
Pat Shields
Irish for Luck
Movie • 1936
Terry O'Ryan
Family Affair
TV • 1966
Garrison's Gorillas
TV • 1967
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Maverick
TV • 1957
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
MacIntosh
Studio One
TV • 1948
Martin Helm
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Longridge
Hawaiian Eye
TV • 1959
Mickey
TV • 1964
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Martin Scott
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Corey Hill
Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Paul Maynard
Getting Together
TV • 1971
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
The Whistler
TV • 1954
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
TV • 1956
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Self - Guest Host
Lights Out
TV • 1949
Tightrope
TV • 1959
Jericho
TV • 1966
The United States Steel Hour
TV • 1953
Richard Voyson
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
Simon Lambert
Maverick
TV • 1957
Paul Carthew
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Barclay
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Bert
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
George Spence
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Manson (uncredited)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
John Stacey
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Mr. Morley
Studio One
TV • 1948
Mona McCluskey
TV • 1965
Trevor Blake
Revlon Mirror Theatre
TV • 1953