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  • BIRTH 11/11/1911
  • DEATH 23/12/1995
  • Country United Kingdom
  • SHOWS 2
  • MOVIES 24

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.

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Patric Knowles

Shows (2)

Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
MacIntosh
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
George Spence / Longridge / Manson (uncredited)

Movies (24)

The Wolf Man
The Wolf Man
Frank Andrews
Chisum
Chisum
Henry Tunstall
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Will Scarlett
The Way West
The Way West
Captain Grant
Band of Angels
Band of Angels
Charles de Marigny
How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley
Ivor Morgan
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon
Josef Cartier
A Bill of Divorcement
A Bill of Divorcement
John Storm
Forever and a Day
Forever and a Day
Trimble-Pomfret Son
Auntie Mame
Auntie Mame
Lindsay Woolsey
It's Love I'm After
It's Love I'm After
Henry Grant Jr.
The Big Steal
The Big Steal
Jim Fiske
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Dr. Frank Mannering
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Private Detective Jerry Church
The Devil's Brigade
The Devil's Brigade
Adm. Lord Mountbatten
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Captain Perry Vickers
Quebec
Quebec
Charles Douglas
Another Thin Man
Another Thin Man
Dudley Horn
Ivy
Ivy
Dr. Roger Gretorex
Hit the Ice
Hit the Ice
Dr. William 'Bill' Burns
The Mystery of Marie Roget
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Dr. Paul Dupin
Tarzan's Savage Fury
Tarzan's Savage Fury
Edwards, English Traitor
Who Done It?
Who Done It?
Jim Turner
The Thief
The Thief
Philippe Voyson