1. Patric Knowles made his film debut in 1932, and played either first or second film leads throughout his career.
28 Facts About Patric Knowles
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Patric Knowles appeared in films from the 1930s to the 1970s.
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Patric Knowles made his film debut in Men of Tomorrow, produced by Alexander Korda.
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Patric Knowles later joined the repertory group of the Oxford Playhouse theater and began touring with various companies and was involved in some seasons in regional theater, being featured in 14 British films, including The Poisoned Diamond, directed by W P Kellino; Norah O'Neale, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst; Regal Cavalcade ; and The Girl in the Crowd, directed by Michael Powell.
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Patric Knowles had the male lead in The Student's Romance with Grete Natzler and Honours Easy with Greta Nissen and was in Abdul the Damned, Mister Hobo with George Arliss, Wrath of Jealousy, and Two's Company.
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Patric Knowles had the lead in his final British films, The Brown Wallet, directed by Powell; Fair Exchange, directed by Ralph Ince; and Crown v Stevens, directed by Powell.
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Patric Knowles returned to England to make Irish for Luck, and then supported Bette Davis in It's Love I'm After.
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Patric Knowles was top billed in some B pictures at Warners: Expensive Husbands and The Patient in Room 18.
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Patric Knowles was re-teamed with Flynn and De Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood, playing Will Scarlett, and again with the pair in Four's a Crowd.
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Patric Knowles supported Flynn and Bette Davis in The Sisters.
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Patric Knowles had supporting roles in two more B pictures before leaving the studio: Heart of the North and Torchy Blane in Chinatown.
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Patric Knowles signed a contract at RKO, for whom he made Beauty for the Asking with Lucille Ball; Five Came Back with Ball, directed by John Farrow; and The Spellbinder.
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Patric Knowles went to MGM for Another Thin Man with William Powell and Myrna Loy and 20th Century-Fox for The Honeymoon's Over.
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Patric Knowles was back at RKO for two more films with John Farrow: Married and in Love and a remake of A Bill of Divorcement with Maureen O'Hara and Adolphe Menjou.
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Patric Knowles went to Universal for a support part in The Wolf Man with Lon Chaney Jr.
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Patric Knowles went to Republic for Women in War then was top billed in Universal's The Strange Case of Doctor Rx, and Mystery of Marie Roget with Maria Montez.
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Patric Knowles went to Paramount where he supported Paulette Goddard and Ray Milland in Kitty, Dorothy Lamour in Masquerade in Mexico, Barbara Stanwyck in The Bride Wore Boots, and Alan Ladd in OS.
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Patric Knowles went to Warners for Of Human Bondage and Universal borrowed him to play Joan Fontaine's leading man in the thriller Ivy.
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Patric Knowles went to RKO for The Big Steal with Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and William Bendix, and 20th Century-Fox for Three Came Home, second billed, playing Claudette Colbert's husband.
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Patric Knowles began appearing on TV shows such as The Bigelow Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Lights Out, Hollywood Opening Night, Robert Montgomery Presents, The Revlon Mirror Theater, The United States Steel Hour, The Whistler, Studio 57, The Ford Television Theatre, and Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre.
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Patric Knowles still appeared in features such as Quebec, Mutiny, Tarzan's Savage Fury, Jamaica Run, Flame of Calcutta for Sam Katzman, World for Ransom, Khyber Patrol and No Man's Woman.
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Patric Knowles had a small role in the feature Band of Angels with Clark Gable and Sidney Portier, From the Earth to the Moon and Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell.
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Patric Knowles appeared in three films for director Andrew McLaglen, The Way West with Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum, as Lord Mountbatten in The Devil's Brigade with William Holden and Cliff Robertson, and as John Tunstall in Chisum with John Wayne.
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Patric Knowles was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame under the category Television on February 8,1960.
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Patric Knowles met Gladys Enid Percival when both appeared together at the Playhouse Theater in Oxford, England.
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Sometime after 1936, Patric Knowles became interested in flying, which led him to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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Patric Knowles had hundreds of hours of flying experience, but because an eye ailment prevented him from flying, he became an instructor.
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Patric Knowles died at age 84 from a brain hemorrhage at West Hills Regional Medical Center in West Hills, California on 23 December 1995.