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