
Patricia Medina
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
Credits
- 1999 · Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man as Self
- 1975 · Timber Tramps as Miami Lills
- 1969 · To Rome with Love as
- 1969 · Latitude Zero as Lucretia
- 1968 · The Killing of Sister George as Betty Thaxter
- 1967 · Mannix as
- 1965 · Branded as
- 1964 · The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Lucia Belmont
- 1964 · The Rogues as Countess Marissa Maricelli
- 1963 · Burke's Law as Serena Diablo
- 1963 · Grindl as
- 1962 · The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Wife
- 1961 · Snow White and the Three Stooges as Witch
- 1961 · Cain's Hundred as Jenny Stapleton
- 1961 · Kraft Mystery Theatre as
- 1960 · Thriller as Nadja
- 1960 · Thriller as Victorine Lafourcade
- 1960 · Coronado 9 as
- 1959 · Adventures in Paradise as Mme. Celeste Soulange
- 1959 · The Rebel as Cynthia Kenyon
- 1959 · The Rebel as Lupe
- 1959 · The Third Man as
- 1959 · Lock-Up as
- 1959 · Riverboat as Eileen Mason
- 1959 · Bonanza as Isabella Maria Ynez Y Castra De La Cuesta / Rosita Morales
- 1959 · Tightrope as
- 1959 · Count Your Blessings as Albertine
- 1959 · Black Saddle as Carla Doyle
- 1959 · Rawhide as Ruthanne Harper
- 1958 · Battle of the V-1 as Zofia
- 1957 · Zorro as
- 1957 · Perry Mason as Harriet Balfour
- 1957 · Have Gun, Will Travel as
- 1957 · The Buckskin Lady as Angela Medley
- 1956 · Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers as
- 1956 · Miami Exposé as Lila Hodges
- 1956 · The Beast of Hollow Mountain as Sarita
- 1956 · Stranger at My Door as Peg Jarret
- 1956 · Uranium Boom as Jean Williams
- 1955 · The Red Cloak as Laura Lanfranchi
- 1955 · Duel on the Mississippi as Lili Scarlet
- 1955 · Mr. Arkadin as Mily
- 1955 · Pirates of Tripoli as Princess Karjan
- 1954 · Climax! as Laura
- 1954 · Climax! as Liz Burdock
- 1954 · The Black Knight as Linet
- 1954 · Drums of Tahiti as Wanda Spence
- 1954 · Phantom of the Rue Morgue as Jeanette
- 1953 · Plunder of the Sun as Anna Luz
- 1953 · Siren of Bagdad as Princess Zendi
- 1953 · Sangaree as Martha Darby
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Marie-Claire
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Bathsheba
- 1952 · Botany Bay as Sally Munroe
- 1952 · Desperate Search as Nora Stead
- 1952 · Captain Pirate as Dona Isabella
- 1952 · Lady in the Iron Mask as Princess Anne / Princess Louise
- 1952 · Aladdin and His Lamp as Princess Jasmine
- 1951 · The Magic Carpet as Lida
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Lisa de Beck
- 1951 · The Lady and the Bandit as Joyce Greene
- 1951 · Valentino as Lila Reyes
- 1950 · The Jackpot as Hilda Jones
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Millicent
- 1950 · Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion as Nicole Dupre
- 1950 · Fortunes of Captain Blood as Isabelita Sotomayor
- 1950 · Francis as Maureen Gelder
- 1949 · Children of Chance as Agostina
- 1949 · The Fighting O'Flynn as Fancy Free
- 1948 · The Three Musketeers as Kitty
- 1947 · The Foxes of Harrow as Desiree
- 1947 · Moss Rose as Audrey Ashton
- 1946 · The Secret Heart as Kay Burns
- 1945 · Waltz Time as Cenci Prohaska
- 1945 · Kiss the Bride Goodbye as Joan Dodd
- 1944 · Don't Take It to Heart as Lady Mary
- 1944 · Hotel Reserve as Odette Roux
- 1943 · They Met in the Dark as Mary, Manicurist (as Pat Medina)
- 1942 · The Day Will Dawn as Ingrid
- 1940 · Crook's Tour as Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
- 1938 · Mr. Satan as A Girl
- 1938 · Simply Terrific as Heather Carfax
- 1938 · Double or Quits as Caroline