Patricia Medina
Acting
Patricia Paz María Medina(19 July 1919-April 28, 2012) was an English actress, born in Liverpool, England to a Spanish father (Ramón Medina Nebot from Canary Islands) and English mother. She began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s. She worked her way up to leading roles in the mid-1940s, where upon she left for Hollywood. In 1950's Fortunes of Captain Blood, she teamed with British actor Louis Hayward. They subsequently appeared together in 1951's The Lady and the Bandit, Lady in the Iron Mask, and Captain Pirate from 1952. Medina was often typecast in period melodramas such as The Black Knight. Two of her films were William Witney's Stranger at My Door and Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin, based on episodes of the radio series The Adventures of Harry Lime, itself derived from The Third Man film. Medina married British actor Richard Greene on 24 December 1941, in St. James's Church, Spanish Place, London; they divorced in 1951. Medina married Joseph Cotten on 20 October 1960, in Beverly Hills at the home of David O. Selznick and Jennifer Jones. Cotten and she bought an historic 1935 home in the Mesa neighborhood of Palm Springs, California, where they lived from 1985 to 1992. No children were born from either marriage. Medina died at age 92 on 28 April 2012, from natural causes at the Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles, California. She was interred at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia, beside the remains of her husband, Cotten.
Known for
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movieTimber Tramps
1975
Miami Lills
movieLatitude Zero
1969
Lucretia
movieThe Killing of Sister George
1968
Betty Thaxter
tvThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Lucia Belmont
tvThe Rogues
1964
Countess Marissa Maricelli
tvBurke's Law
1963
Serena Diablo
tvCain's Hundred
1961
Jenny Stapleton
tvThriller
1960
Nadja / Victorine Lafourcade
tvStartime
1959
Gentlewoman
tvAdventures in Paradise
1959
Mme. Celeste Soulange
tvThe Rebel
1959
Cynthia Kenyon / Lupe
tvRiverboat
1959
Eileen Mason
tvBonanza
1959
Isabella Maria Ynez Y Castra De La Cuesta / Rosita Morales
movieCount Your Blessings
1959
Albertine
tvBlack Saddle
1959
Carla Doyle
tvRawhide
1959
Ruthanne Harper
tvPerry Mason
1957
Harriet Balfour
movieThe Buckskin Lady
1957
Angela Medley
movieMiami Exposé
1956
Lila Hodges
movieStranger at My Door
1956
Peg Jarret
movieUranium Boom
1956
Jean Williams
movieThe Red Cloak
1955
Laura Lanfranchi
movieDuel on the Mississippi
1955
Lili Scarlet
moviePirates of Tripoli
1955
Princess Karjan
tvClimax!
1954
Laura / Liz Burdock
movieDrums of Tahiti
1954
Wanda Spence
moviePlunder of the Sun
1953
Anna Luz
movieSiren of Bagdad
1953
Princess Zendi
movieSangaree
1953
Martha Darby
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953
Marie-Claire / Bathsheba
movieBotany Bay
1952
Sally Munroe
movieDesperate Search
1952
Nora Stead
movieCaptain Pirate
1952
Dona Isabella
movieLady in the Iron Mask
1952
Princess Anne / Princess Louise
movieAladdin and His Lamp
1952
Princess Jasmine
tvSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Lisa de Beck
movieThe Lady and the Bandit
1951
Joyce Greene
movieValentino
1951
Lila Reyes
movieThe Jackpot
1950
Hilda Jones
movieFortunes of Captain Blood
1950
Isabelita Sotomayor
movieFrancis
1950
Maureen Gelder
movieThe Fighting O'Flynn
1949
Fancy Free
movieThe Foxes of Harrow
1947
Desiree
movieMoss Rose
1947
Audrey Ashton
movieThe Secret Heart
1946
Kay Burns
movieWaltz Time
1945
Cenci Prohaska
movieKiss the Bride Goodbye
1945
Joan Dodd
movieDon't Take It to Heart
1944
Lady Mary
movieHotel Reserve
1944
Odette Roux
movieThey Met in the Dark
1943
Mary, Manicurist (as Pat Medina)
movieCrook's Tour
1940
Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
Simply Terrific
1938
Heather Carfax