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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patric Knowles, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	0.6263
Birthday	1911-11-11
Place of Birth	Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As	Reginald Lawrence Knowles, Pat Knowles,

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Flame of Calcutta

Hit the Ice

The Wolf Man

World for Ransom

Honours Easy

Crazy House

Another Thin Man

The Way West

How Green Was My Valley

Band of Angels

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Ivy

From the Earth to the Moon

Auntie Mame

Chisum

Four's a Crowd

Who Done It?

Five Came Back

The Big Steal

No Man's Woman

Tarzan's Savage Fury

The Patient in Room 18

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

O.S.S.

Three Came Home

A Bill of Divorcement

Sin Town

It's Love I'm After

Beauty for the Asking

Kitty

Crown v. Stevens

Lady in a Jam

Variety Girl

Anne of Windy Poplars

Arnold

Of Human Bondage

Married and in Love

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Quebec

Khyber Patrol

Give Me Your Heart

Heart of the North

The Bride Wore Boots

The Man

Dream Girl

Mutiny

Isn't It Romantic?

The Mystery of Marie Roget

Women in War

The Spellbinder

Expensive Husbands

Chip Off the Old Block

Monsieur Beaucaire

Abdul the Damned

Jamaica Run

Masquerade in Mexico

The D.A.: Murder One

This Is the Life

The Sisters

All by Myself

Storm Over Bengal

Always a Bridesmaid

The Girl in the Crowd

Forever and a Day

The Student's Romance

Fair Exchange

The Guv'nor

Terror in the Wax Museum

The Thief

The Brown Wallet

In Enemy Country

Breakdowns of 1938

Pardon My Rhythm

Six Gun Law

The Devil's Brigade

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

Two's Company

The Wolfman