
Known for
Acting
Born
November 11, 1911
Birthplace
Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died
December 23, 1995 (aged 84)
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 pla...
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as Self (archive footage)
1973
as Douglas Whitehead
1973
as Mr. Southcott
1972
as South African Consul
1971
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as Henry Tunstall
1969
as Charles Lloyd
1968
as General Lloyd-Griffis
1968
as Adm. Lord Mountbatten
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as Captain Grant
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as Lindsay Woolsey
1958
as Josef Cartier
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