Patricia Medina
Acting
Born July 19, 1919, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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.
Filmography
- 1975Timber Tramps — Miami Lills
- 1969Latitude Zero — Lucretia
- To Rome with Love
- 1968The Killing of Sister George — Betty Thaxter
- Mannix
- Branded
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Lucia Belmont
- The Rogues — Countess Marissa Maricelli
- Burke's Law — Serena Diablo
- Grindl
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Wife
- Cain's Hundred — Jenny Stapleton
- Kraft Mystery Theatre
- 1961Snow White and the Three Stooges — Witch
- Coronado 9
- Thriller — Nadja, Victorine Lafourcade
- Adventures in Paradise — Mme. Celeste Soulange
- Black Saddle — Carla Doyle
- Bonanza — Isabella Maria Ynez Y Castra De La Cuesta / Rosita Morales
- 1959Count Your Blessings — Albertine
- Lock-Up
- Rawhide — Ruthanne Harper
- Riverboat — Eileen Mason
- Startime — Gentlewoman
- The Rebel — Cynthia Kenyon, Lupe
- The Third Man
- Tightrope
- 1958Battle of the V-1 — Zofia
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Perry Mason — Harriet Balfour
- 1957The Buckskin Lady — Angela Medley
- Zorro
- 1956Miami Exposé — Lila Hodges
- 1956Stranger at My Door — Peg Jarret
- Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
- 1956The Beast of Hollow Mountain — Sarita
- 1956Uranium Boom — Jean Williams
- 1955Duel on the Mississippi — Lili Scarlet
- 1955Mr. Arkadin — Mily
- 1955Pirates of Tripoli — Princess Karjan
- 1955The Red Cloak — Laura Lanfranchi
- Climax! — Laura, Liz Burdock
- 1954Drums of Tahiti — Wanda Spence
- 1954Phantom of the Rue Morgue — Jeanette
- 1954The Black Knight — Linet
- General Electric Theater — Marie-Claire, Bathsheba
- 1953Plunder of the Sun — Anna Luz
- 1953Sangaree — Martha Darby
- 1953Siren of Bagdad — Princess Zendi
- 1952Aladdin and His Lamp — Princess Jasmine
- 1952Botany Bay — Sally Munroe
- 1952Captain Pirate — Dona Isabella
- 1952Desperate Search — Nora Stead
- 1952Lady in the Iron Mask — Princess Anne / Princess Louise
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Lisa de Beck
- 1951The Lady and the Bandit — Joyce Greene
- 1951The Magic Carpet — Lida
- 1951Valentino — Lila Reyes
- 1950Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion — Nicole Dupre
- 1950Fortunes of Captain Blood — Isabelita Sotomayor
- 1950Francis — Maureen Gelder
- Lux Video Theatre — Millicent
- 1950The Jackpot — Hilda Jones
- 1949Children of Chance — Agostina
- 1949The Fighting O'Flynn — Fancy Free
- 1948The Three Musketeers — Kitty
- 1947Moss Rose — Audrey Ashton
- 1947The Foxes of Harrow — Desiree
- 1946The Secret Heart — Kay Burns
- 1945Kiss the Bride Goodbye — Joan Dodd
- 1945Waltz Time — Cenci Prohaska
- 1944Don't Take It to Heart — Lady Mary
- 1944Hotel Reserve — Odette Roux
- 1943They Met in the Dark — Mary, Manicurist (as Pat Medina)
- 1942The Day Will Dawn — Ingrid
- 1940Crook's Tour — Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
- 1938Double or Quits — Caroline
- 1938Mr. Satan — A Girl
- 1938Simply Terrific — Heather Carfax
Appearances as themselves (1)
- 1999Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man — Self