Patric Knowles

About

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...

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Matinee TheaterSeries • 1955Have Gun, Will TravelSeries • 1957MaverickSeries • 1957Studio OneSeries • 1948Peter GunnSeries • 1958GunsmokeSeries • 195577 Sunset StripSeries • 1958Hawaiian EyeSeries • 1959Family AffairSeries • 1966Lights OutSeries • 1949The 20th Century Fox HourSeries • 1955The MillionaireSeries • 1955The United States Steel HourSeries • 1953The Barbara Stanwyck ShowSeries • 1960Lux Video TheatreSeries • 1950The Adventures of Robin HoodMovie • 1938TightropeSeries • 1959Garrison's GorillasSeries • 1967The Wolf ManMovie • 1941JerichoSeries • 1966The Devil's BrigadeMovie • 1968ChisumMovie • 1970How Green Was My ValleyMovie • 1941Frankenstein Meets the Wolf ManMovie • 1943