1911-11-11 Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
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' | Self (archive footage) | 1999-01-01 |
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Arnold | Douglas Whitehead | 1973-11-16 |
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Terror in the Wax Museum | Mr. Southcott | 1973-05-02 |
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The Man | South African Consul | 1972-07-19 |
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Chisum | Henry Tunstall | 1970-07-23 |
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The D.A.: Murder One | Charles Lloyd | 1969-12-08 |
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In Enemy Country | General Lloyd-Griffis | 1968-07-01 |
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The Devil's Brigade | Adm. Lord Mountbatten | 1968-05-15 |
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The Way West | Captain Grant | 1967-05-24 |
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Six Gun Law | 1962-12-01 | |
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Auntie Mame | Lindsay Woolsey | 1958-12-04 |
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From the Earth to the Moon | Josef Cartier | 1958-11-26 |
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Band of Angels | Charles de Marigny | 1957-08-03 |
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No Man's Woman | Wayne Vincent | 1955-10-27 |
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The Thief | Philippe Voyson | 1955-01-04 |
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World for Ransom | Julian March | 1954-01-31 |
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Khyber Patrol | George Kennely | 1954-09-04 |
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Jamaica Run | William Montague | 1953-04-21 |
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Flame of Calcutta | Capt. Keith Lambert | 1953-07-20 |
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Mutiny | Capt. Ben Waldridge | 1952-03-05 |
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Tarzan's Savage Fury | Edwards | 1952-03-14 |
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Quebec | Charles Douglas | 1951-03-15 |
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Three Came Home | Harry Keith | 1950-02-20 |
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The Big Steal | Jim Fiske | 1949-07-01 |
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Isn't It Romantic? | Richard Brannon | 1948-10-06 |
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Dream Girl | Jim Lucas | 1948-07-27 |
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Ivy | Dr. Roger Gretorex | 1947-06-26 |
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Variety Girl | Patric Knowles | 1947-08-29 |
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O.S.S. | Cmdr. Brady | 1946-05-26 |
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Of Human Bondage | Harry Griffiths | 1946-07-05 |
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Monsieur Beaucaire | Duc le Chandre | 1946-09-04 |
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The Bride Wore Boots | Lance Gale | 1946-06-05 |
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Masquerade in Mexico | Thomas Grant | 1945-12-03 |
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Kitty | Brett Harwood Earl of Carstairs | 1945-10-16 |
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Chip Off the Old Block | Commander Judd Corrigan | 1944-02-01 |
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This Is the Life | Maj. Hilary Jarret | 1944-06-01 |
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Pardon My Rhythm | Anthony "Tony" Page | 1944-05-01 |
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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man | Dr. Frank Mannering | 1943-03-05 |
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Crazy House | Edmund 'Mac' MacLean | 1943-10-08 |
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Hit the Ice | Dr. William 'Bill' Burns | 1943-06-02 |
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Forever and a Day | Trimble-Pomfret Son | 1943-01-21 |
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Always a Bridesmaid | Tony Warren | 1943-09-24 |
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All by Myself | Dr. Bill Perry | 1943-06-11 |
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The Mystery of Marie Roget | Dr. Paul Dupin | 1942-04-23 |
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Who Done It? | Jim Turner | 1942-10-30 |
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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx | Private Detective Jerry Church | 1942-03-27 |
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Lady in a Jam | Doctor Enright | 1942-06-19 |
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Sin Town | Wade Crowell | 1942-09-25 |
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The Wolf Man | Frank Andrews | 1941-12-12 |
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How Green Was My Valley | Ivor Morgan | 1941-10-28 |
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Married and in Love | Paul Wilding | 1940-01-19 |
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A Bill of Divorcement | John Storm | 1940-05-31 |
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Anne of Windy Poplars | Gilbert Blythe | 1940-06-28 |
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Women in War | Lt. Larry Hall | 1940-06-05 |
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown | Capt. Condon | 1939-02-02 |
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Five Came Back | Judson Ellis | 1939-06-23 |
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The Spellbinder | Tom Dixon | 1939-07-28 |
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Beauty for the Asking | Denny Williams | 1939-02-24 |
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Another Thin Man | Dudley Horn | 1939-11-17 |
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Four's a Crowd | Patterson 'Pat' Buckley | 1938-08-04 |
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The Patient in Room 18 | Lance O'Leary | 1938-01-08 |
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The Adventures of Robin Hood | Will Scarlett | 1938-05-13 |
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Storm Over Bengal | Captain Jeffrey Allison | 1938-11-14 |
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Heart of the North | Jim Montgomery | 1938-12-10 |
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The Sisters | Norman French | 1938-10-14 |
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Breakdowns of 1938 | Patterson Buckley (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1938-12-31 |
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It's Love I'm After | Henry Grant Jr. | 1937-10-08 |
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Expensive Husbands | Prince Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau | 1937-11-27 |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade | Captain Perry Vickers | 1936-10-20 |
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The Brown Wallet | John Gillespie | 1936-07-20 |
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Two's Company | Lord Jerry Wendower | 1936-12-12 |
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Give Me Your Heart | Robert 'Bob' Melford | 1936-09-17 |
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Crown v. Stevens | Chris Jensen | 1936-08-03 |
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Fair Exchange | Tony Meredith | 1936-09-14 |
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Honours Easy | Harry Markham | 1935-07-31 |
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The Student's Romance | Max Brandt | 1935-01-01 |
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The Girl in the Crowd | Tom Burrows | 1935-05-20 |
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Abdul the Damned | Omar - Hilmi's Attache | 1935-08-05 |
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The Guv'nor | Paul | 1935-10-01 |
