Patric Knowles
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| Born |
Reginald Lawrence Knowles 11 November 1911 Horsforth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 23 December 1995 (aged 84) Woodland Hills, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1932–1973 |
| Spouse(s) | Enid Percival (1935–1995; his death) 2 children |
Reginald Lawrence Knowles (11 November 1911 – 23 December 1995) was an English film actor who renamed himself Patric Knowles. Born in Horsforth, West Riding of Yorkshire, he made his film debut in 1933, and played either first or second film leads throughout his career. He appeared in films from the 1930s to the 1970s.
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, whom he closely resembled and whose acquaintance he had made in England when both were under contract to Warner Bros. at Teddington Studios. 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 accused Flynn of having been a fascist sympathizer and Nazi spy. Knowles, who had served in World War II as a flying instructor in the Royal Canadian Air Force, 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) .
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