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