Patric Knowles
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.
Known For
Dr. Frank Mannering
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Will Scarlett
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Capt. Keith Lambert
Flame of Calcutta
Dr. William 'Bill' Burns
Hit the Ice
Frank Andrews
The Wolf Man
Julian March
World for Ransom
Harry Markham
Honours Easy
Edmund 'Mac' MacLean
Crazy House
Dudley Horn
Another Thin Man
Captain Grant
The Way West
Ivor Morgan
How Green Was My Valley
Charles de Marigny
Band of Angels
Captain Perry Vickers
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Dr. Roger Gretorex
Ivy
Josef Cartier
From the Earth to the Moon
Lindsay Woolsey
Auntie Mame
Henry Tunstall
Chisum
Patterson 'Pat' Buckley
Four's a Crowd
Jim Turner
Who Done It?
Judson Ellis
Five Came Back
Jim Fiske
The Big Steal
Wayne Vincent
No Man's Woman
Edwards
Tarzan's Savage Fury
Lance O'Leary
The Patient in Room 18
Private Detective Jerry Church
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Cmdr. Brady
O.S.S.
Harry Keith
Three Came Home
John Storm
A Bill of Divorcement
Wade Crowell
Sin Town
Henry Grant Jr.
It's Love I'm After
Denny Williams
Beauty for the Asking
Brett Harwood Earl of Carstairs
Kitty
Chris Jensen
Crown v. Stevens
Doctor Enright
Lady in a Jam
Patric Knowles
Variety Girl
Gilbert Blythe
Anne of Windy Poplars
Douglas Whitehead
Arnold
Harry Griffiths
Of Human Bondage
Paul Wilding
Married and in Love
Capt. Condon
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Charles Douglas
Quebec
George Kennely
Khyber Patrol
Robert 'Bob' Melford
Give Me Your Heart
Jim Montgomery
Heart of the North
Lance Gale
The Bride Wore Boots
South African Consul
The Man
Jim Lucas
Dream Girl
Capt. Ben Waldridge
Mutiny
Richard Brannon
Isn't It Romantic?
Dr. Paul Dupin
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Lt. Larry Hall
Women in War
Tom Dixon
The Spellbinder
Prince Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau
Expensive Husbands
Commander Judd Corrigan
Chip Off the Old Block
Duc le Chandre
Monsieur Beaucaire
Omar - Hilmi's Attache
Abdul the Damned
William Montague
Jamaica Run
Thomas Grant
Masquerade in Mexico
Charles Lloyd
The D.A.: Murder One
Maj. Hilary Jarret
This Is the Life
Norman French
The Sisters
Dr. Bill Perry
All by Myself
Captain Jeffrey Allison
Storm Over Bengal
Tony Warren
Always a Bridesmaid
Tom Burrows
The Girl in the Crowd
Trimble-Pomfret Son
Forever and a Day
Max Brandt
The Student's Romance
Tony Meredith
Fair Exchange
Paul
The Guv'nor
Mr. Southcott
Terror in the Wax Museum
Philippe Voyson
The Thief
John Gillespie
The Brown Wallet
General Lloyd-Griffis
In Enemy Country
Patterson Buckley (archive footage) (uncredited)
Breakdowns of 1938
Anthony "Tony" Page
Pardon My Rhythm
Six Gun Law
Adm. Lord Mountbatten
The Devil's Brigade
Self (archive footage)
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Lord Jerry Wendower
Two's Company
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
79
Gender
Male
Birthday
1911-11-11
Place of Birth
Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
Reginald Lawrence Knowles