Cast & creator
Patric Knowles
Best known for Maverick, Maverick, Have Gun, Will Travel
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.
Also known as: Reginald Lawrence Knowles, Pat Knowles
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1935–1999 · acting roles
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Maverick
1957Maverick
Paul Carthew
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Matinee Theater
1955
Robert Montgomery Presents
Self - Guest Host
1950
Studio One
Martin Helm
1948Studio One
1948
Gunsmoke
MacIntosh
1955
Hawaiian Eye
1959
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Peter Gunn
1958
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Family Affair
1966
The Millionaire
Martin Scott
1955
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Simon Lambert
1960
Lights Out
1949
The United States Steel Hour
Richard Voyson
1953Lux Video Theatre
Corey Hill
1950Lux Video Theatre
Barclay
1950Lux Video Theatre
Bert
1950Lux Video Theatre
Mr. Morley
1950
Tightrope
1959
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
The Whistler
1954
Jericho
1966
The Wolf Man
Frank Andrews
1941
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
1956
Mona McCluskey
Trevor Blake
1965
General Electric Theater
Longridge
1953General Electric Theater
George Spence
1953General Electric Theater
Manson (uncredited)
1953
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Will Scarlett
1938Getting Together
1971
Chisum
Henry Tunstall
1970
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Paul Maynard
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
John Stacey
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Mickey
1964
How Green Was My Valley
Ivor Morgan
1941
The Devil's Brigade
Adm. Lord Mountbatten
1968
The Way West
Captain Grant
1967
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Dr. Frank Mannering
1943
The Thief
Philippe Voyson
1955
Auntie Mame
Lindsay Woolsey
1958
Forever and a Day
Trimble-Pomfret Son
1943
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Captain Perry Vickers
1936
Another Thin Man
Dudley Horn
1939
It's Love I'm After
Henry Grant Jr.
1937
Band of Angels
Charles de Marigny
1957
The D.A.: Murder One
Charles Lloyd
1969
Lady in a Jam
Doctor Enright
1942
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Private Detective Jerry Church
1942
Terror in the Wax Museum
Mr. Southcott
1973
From the Earth to the Moon
Josef Cartier
1958
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Self (archive footage)
1999
Give Me Your Heart
Robert 'Bob' Melford
1936
Mutiny
Capt. Ben Waldridge
1952
Four's a Crowd
Patterson 'Pat' Buckley
1938
Isn't It Romantic?
Richard Brannon
1948
The Sisters
Norman French
1938
Tarzan's Savage Fury
Edwards
1952
Heart of the North
Jim Montgomery
1938
Hit the Ice
Dr. William 'Bill' Burns
1943
Breakdowns of 1938
Patterson Buckley (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
The Bride Wore Boots
Lance Gale
1946
Ivy
Dr. Roger Gretorex
1947
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Dr. Paul Dupin
1942
Who Done It?
Jim Turner
1942
In Enemy Country
General Lloyd-Griffis
1968
Variety Girl
Patric Knowles
1947
Jamaica Run
William Montague
1953
The Patient in Room 18
Lance O'Leary
1938
Quebec
Charles Douglas
1951
The Big Steal
Jim Fiske
1949
No Man's Woman
Wayne Vincent
1955
Married and in Love
Paul Wilding
1940
Chip Off the Old Block
Commander Judd Corrigan
1944
This Is the Life
Hilary Jarret
1944
Three Came Home
Harry Keith
1950
The Honeymoon's Over
Pat Shields
1939
Monsieur Beaucaire
Duc le Chandre
1946
Five Came Back
Judson Ellis
1939
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Capt. Condon
1939
Beauty for the Asking
Denny Williams
1939
Expensive Husbands
Prince Rupert Heinrich Franz Von Rentzau
1937
World for Ransom
Julian March
1954
The Student's Romance
Max Brandt
1935
A Bill of Divorcement
John Storm
1940
Arnold
Douglas Whitehead
1973
Anne of Windy Poplars
Gilbert Blythe
1940
O.S.S.
Cmdr. Brady
1946
Of Human Bondage
Harry Griffiths
1946
Crazy House
Edmund 'Mac' MacLean
1943
Kitty
Brett Harwood Earl of Carstairs
1945
The Guv'nor
Paul
1935
The Man
South African Consul
1972
All by Myself
Dr. Bill Perry
1943
Always a Bridesmaid
Tony Warren
1943
Women in War
Lt. Larry Hall
1940
The Spellbinder
Tom Dixon
1939
Six Gun Law
1962
Storm Over Bengal
Captain Jeffrey Allison
1938The Girl in the Crowd
Tom Burrows
1935
Abdul the Damned
Omar - Hilmi's Attache
1935
Flame of Calcutta
Capt. Keith Lambert
1953
Crown v. Stevens
Chris Jensen
1936
Dream Girl
Jim Lucas
1948
Pardon My Rhythm
Anthony "Tony" Page
1944
Masquerade in Mexico
Thomas Grant
1945
Irish for Luck
Terry O'Ryan
1936
Two's Company
Lord Jerry Wendower
1936
The Brown Wallet
John Gillespie
1936
Khyber Patrol
George Kennely
1954
Honours Easy
Harry Markham
1935
Sin Town
Wade Crowell
1942Fair Exchange
Tony Meredith
1936