
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.

The Wolfman

Garrison's Gorillas

In Enemy Country

ロビンフッドの冒険

Forever and a Day

わが谷は緑なりき

The Guv'nor

Have Gun, Will Travel

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Another Thin Man

It's Love I'm After

狼男

A Bill of Divorcement

Khyber Patrol

Isn't It Romantic?

Auntie Mame

Who Done It?

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

77 Sunset Strip

Maverick

チザム

Six Gun Law

Gunsmoke

Family Affair

O.S.S.

Ivy

Three Came Home

The Big Steal

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Jericho

Peter Gunn

General Electric Theater

コマンド戦略

Crown v. Stevens

The Man

Band of Angels

Five Came Back

The United States Steel Hour

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

フランケンシュタインと狼男

Variety Girl

The Way West

Of Human Bondage

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

The Spellbinder

Mickey

Hit the Ice

The Bride Wore Boots

Anne of Windy Poplars

Lights Out

The Sisters

Robert Montgomery Presents

Kitty

The Mystery of Marie Roget

Pardon My Rhythm

Tightrope

Married and in Love

Monsieur Beaucaire

Masquerade in Mexico

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Lady in a Jam

Give Me Your Heart

Abdul the Damned

Storm Over Bengal

Beauty for the Asking

Hawaiian Eye

From the Earth to the Moon

Tarzan's Savage Fury

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

Arnold

Terror in the Wax Museum

World for Ransom

Crazy House

Jamaica Run

This Is the Life

The Student's Romance

Studio One

The Millionaire

Matinee Theater

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

Mona McCluskey

Mutiny

No Man's Woman

Four's a Crowd

Expensive Husbands

Women in War

Breakdowns of 1938

The Patient in Room 18

Dream Girl

Heart of the North

Chip Off the Old Block

The Thief

Sin Town

Flame of Calcutta

Honours Easy

Quebec

The D.A.: Murder One

All by Myself

Always a Bridesmaid

The Brown Wallet

Two's Company

The Honeymoon's Over

Irish for Luck

Revlon Mirror Theatre