Name
Patricia Medina
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1919-07-19
Deathday
2012-04-28 (93 years old)
Place of Birth
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Biography
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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- 1961 Snow White and the Three Stooges as Witch
- 1949 Children of Chance as Agostina
- 1954 The Black Knight as Linet
- 1956 Miami Exposé as Lila Hodges
- 1952 Captain Pirate as Dona Isabella
- 1950 Francis as Maureen Gelder
- 1954 Phantom of the Rue Morgue as Jeanette
- 1955 Mr. Arkadin as Mily
- 1947 Moss Rose as Audrey Ashton
- 1969 Latitude Zero as Lucretia
- 1968 The Killing of Sister George as Betty Thaxter
- 1943 They Met in the Dark as Mary, Manicurist (as Pat Medina)
- 1953 Plunder of the Sun as Anna Luz
- 1957 The Buckskin Lady as Angela Medley
- 1951 The Magic Carpet as Lida
- 1950 Fortunes of Captain Blood as Isabelita Sotomayor
- 1952 Desperate Search as Nora Stead
- 1956 The Beast of Hollow Mountain as Sarita
- 1954 Drums of Tahiti as Wanda Spence
- 1956 Stranger at My Door as Peg Jarret
- 1953 Siren of Bagdad as Princess Zendi
- 1955 Duel on the Mississippi as Lili Scarlet
- 1953 Sangaree as Martha Darby
- 1952 Botany Bay as Sally Munroe
- 1955 Pirates of Tripoli as Princess Karjan
- 1951 The Lady and the Bandit as Joyce Greene
- 1947 The Foxes of Harrow as Desiree
- 1956 Uranium Boom as Jean Williams
- 1944 Don't Take It to Heart as Lady Mary
- 1946 The Secret Heart as Kay Burns
- 1951 Valentino as Lila Reyes
- 1948 The Three Musketeers as Kitty
- 1959 Count Your Blessings as Albertine
- 1945 Waltz Time as Cenci Prohaska
- 1945 Kiss the Bride Goodbye as Joan Dodd
- 1949 The Fighting O'Flynn as Fancy Free
- 1999 Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man as Self
- 1950 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion as Nicole Dupre
- 1942 The Day Will Dawn as Ingrid
- 1958 Battle of the V-1 as Zofia
- 1938 Double or Quits as Caroline
- 1938 Simply Terrific as Heather Carfax
- 1940 Crook's Tour as Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
- 1944 Hotel Reserve as Odette Roux
- 1952 Lady in the Iron Mask as Princess Anne / Princess Louise
- 1952 Aladdin and His Lamp as Princess Jasmine
- 1950 The Jackpot as Hilda Jones
- 1955 The Red Cloak as Laura Lanfranchi
- 1975 Timber Tramps as Miami Lills
- 1938 Mr. Satan as A Girl
- 1961 The Devil's Ticket as Nadja
- 1963 Burke's Law ( 1 episode ) as Serena Diablo
- 1961 Cain's Hundred ( 1 episode ) as Jenny Stapleton
- 1967 Mannix ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Harriet Balfour
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Marie-Claire
- 1957 Zorro ( 4 episodes )
- 1969 To Rome with Love ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Rawhide ( 1 episode ) as Ruthanne Harper
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 3 episodes )
- 1960 Thriller ( 1 episode ) as Nadja
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Millicent
- 1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ( 1 episode ) as Lisa de Beck
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Laura
- 1959 Adventures in Paradise ( 1 episode ) as Mme. Celeste Soulange
- 1963 Grindl ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Black Saddle ( 1 episode ) as Carla Doyle
- 1959 Lock-Up ( 1 episode )
- 1965 Branded ( 1 episode )
- 1959 The Rebel ( 1 episode ) as Cynthia Kenyon
- 1959 Riverboat ( 1 episode ) as Eileen Mason
- 1956 Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Tightrope ( 1 episode )
- 1960 Coronado 9 ( 2 episodes )
- 1959 The Third Man ( 1 episode )
- 1961 Kraft Mystery Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1964 The Rogues ( 1 episode ) as Countess Marissa Maricelli
- 1964 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ( 1 episode ) as Lucia Belmont
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Bathsheba
- 1960 Thriller ( 1 episode ) as Victorine Lafourcade
- 1959 The Rebel ( 1 episode ) as Lupe
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Liz Burdock
- 1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ( 1 episode ) as Wife
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Isabella Maria Ynez Y Castra De La Cuesta / Rosita Morales
- 1959 Startime ( 1 episode ) as Gentlewoman
