Patric Knowles

Reginald Lawrence Knowles (11 November 1911 – 23 Desember 1995) adalah seorang aktor film Inggris yang mengganti namanya menjadi Patric Knowles, nama yang mencerminkan keturunan Irlandia-nya. Ia muncul dalam film-film tahun 1930an hingga 1970an. Dia membuat debut filmnya pada tahun 1933, dan memainkan peran utama film pertama atau kedua sepanjang karirnya. Dalam film Amerika pertamanya, Give Me Your Heart (1936), yang dirilis di Inggris dengan judul Sweet Aloes, Knowles berperan sebagai orang Inggris yang berarti. Saat membuat The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) di Lone Pine, California, dia berteman dengan Errol Flynn, yang dia kenal ketika keduanya terikat kontrak dengan Warner Bros. Sejak film tersebut, di mana Knowles berperan sebagai Kapten Perry Vickers, saudara dari Mayor Geoffrey Vickers dari Flynn, dia lebih sering berperan sebagai karakter yang kaku di samping karakter Flynn yang flamboyan, terutama sebagai Will Scarlet dalam The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Kedua aktor tersebut juga membintangi Four's A Crowd, juga pada tahun 1938. Lebih dari dua dekade setelah kematian Flynn, penulis biografi Charles Higham menodai ingatan Flynn dengan menuduhnya sebagai simpatisan fasis dan mata-mata Nazi. Knowles, yang pernah bertugas di Perang Dunia II sebagai instruktur terbang di RCAF, membela Flynn, menulis Rebuttal for a Friend sebagai epilog dari Errol Flynn: The Spy Who Never Was karya Tony Thomas (Citadel Press, 1990) ISBN 080651180X. Knowles adalah aktor film lepas dari tahun 1939 hingga penampilan film terakhirnya pada tahun 1973. Pada tahun 1940-an, ia dikenal karena memerankan tokoh protagonis di sejumlah film horor, termasuk The Wolf Man (1941) dan Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943). Knowles juga berperan sebagai tokoh komik di sejumlah komedi seperti Abbott dan Costello's Who Done It? (1942) dan Pukul Es (1943). Dia juga tampil sebagai lawan main Jack Kelly dalam episode serial televisi Maverick tahun 1957 berjudul "The Wrecker", yang didasarkan pada petualangan Robert Louis Stevenson dan dibintangi oleh James Garner. Knowles dilantik ke dalam Hollywood Walk of Fame dan menulis novel berjudul Even Steven (Vantage Press, 1960) ASIN B0006RMC2G. Dia dikremasi. Abunya diberikan kepada teman atau keluarga. Deskripsi di atas dari artikel Wikipedia Patric Knowles, berlisensi CC-BY-SA, daftar lengkap kontributor di Wikipedia.

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.