1911-11-11 ( 113 years old ) in 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.
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Movies
Arnold
1973-11-16
Terror in the Wax Museum
1973-05-02
The Man
1972-07-19
Chisum
1970-07-23
The D.A.: Murder One
1969-12-08
In Enemy Country
1968-07-01
The Devil's Brigade
1968-05-15
The Way West
1967-05-24
Six Gun Law
1962-12-01
Auntie Mame
1958-12-04
From the Earth to the Moon
1958-11-26
Band of Angels
1957-08-03
No Man's Woman
1955-10-27
The Thief
1955-01-04
Khyber Patrol
1954-09-04
World for Ransom
1954-01-31
Flame of Calcutta
1953-07-20
Jamaica Run
1953-04-21
Tarzan's Savage Fury
1952-03-14
Mutiny
1952-03-05
Quebec
1951-03-15
Three Came Home
1950-02-20
The Big Steal
1949-07-01
Isn't It Romantic?
1948-10-06
Dream Girl
1948-07-27
Variety Girl
1947-08-29
Ivy
1947-06-26
Monsieur Beaucaire
1946-09-04
Of Human Bondage
1946-07-05
The Bride Wore Boots
1946-06-05
O.S.S.
1946-05-26
Masquerade in Mexico
1945-12-03
Kitty
1945-10-16
This Is the Life
1944-06-01
Pardon My Rhythm
1944-05-01
Chip Off the Old Block
1944-02-01
Crazy House
1943-10-08
Always a Bridesmaid
1943-09-24
All by Myself
1943-06-11
Hit the Ice
1943-06-02
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943-03-05
Forever and a Day
1943-01-21
Who Done It?
1942-10-30
Sin Town
1942-09-25
Lady in a Jam
1942-06-19
The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942-04-23
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
1942-03-27
The Wolf Man
1941-12-12
How Green Was My Valley
1941-10-28
Anne of Windy Poplars
1940-06-28
Women in War
1940-06-05
A Bill of Divorcement
1940-05-31
Married and in Love
1940-01-19
Another Thin Man
1939-11-17
The Spellbinder
1939-07-28
Five Came Back
1939-06-23
Beauty for the Asking
1939-02-24
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939-02-02
Breakdowns of 1938
1938-12-31
Heart of the North
1938-12-10
Storm Over Bengal
1938-11-14
The Sisters
1938-10-14
Four's a Crowd
1938-08-04
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938-05-13
The Patient in Room 18
1938-01-08
Expensive Husbands
1937-11-27
It's Love I'm After
1937-10-08
Two's Company
1936-12-12
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936-10-20
Give Me Your Heart
1936-09-17
Fair Exchange
1936-09-14
Crown v. Stevens
1936-08-03
The Brown Wallet
1936-07-20
The Guv'nor
1935-10-01
Abdul the Damned
1935-08-05
Honours Easy
1935-07-31
The Girl in the Crowd
1935-05-20
The Student's Romance
1935-01-01
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