Patricia Medina
Known for Acting · 80 credits
- Born
- 1919-07-19
- Died
- 2012-04-28
- Place of birth
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- Also known as
- Patricia Paz Maria Medina
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
TV Shows (30)
Perry Mason
1957
as Harriet Balfour
Bonanza
1959
as Isabella Maria Ynez Y Castra De La Cuesta / Rosita Morales
Mannix
1967
Climax!
1954
as Laura / Liz Burdock
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Wife
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Rawhide
1959
as Ruthanne Harper
Burke's Law
1963
as Serena Diablo
Zorro
1957
Thriller
1960
as Nadja / Victorine Lafourcade
Adventures in Paradise
1959
as Mme. Celeste Soulange
The Rebel
1959
as Cynthia Kenyon / Lupe
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Lucia Belmont
Riverboat
1959
as Eileen Mason
Branded
1965
Black Saddle
1959
as Carla Doyle
Startime
1959
as Gentlewoman
Lock-Up
1959
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Millicent
Cain's Hundred
1961
as Jenny Stapleton
The Third Man
1959
The Rogues
1964
as Countess Marissa Maricelli
Tightrope
1959
Coronado 9
1960
To Rome with Love
1969
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
General Electric Theater
1953
as Marie-Claire / Bathsheba
Grindl
1963
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Lisa de Beck
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
1956
Movies (50)
Miami Exposé
1956
as Lila Hodges
The Three Musketeers
1948
as Kitty
Valentino
1951
as Lila Reyes
The Jackpot
1950
as Hilda Jones
Botany Bay
1952
as Sally Munroe
Latitude Zero
1969
as Lucretia
The Buckskin Lady
1957
as Angela Medley
The Secret Heart
1946
as Kay Burns
Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950
as Isabelita Sotomayor
Mr. Arkadin
1955
as Mily
Francis
1950
as Maureen Gelder
Captain Pirate
1952
as Dona Isabella
Moss Rose
1947
as Audrey Ashton
Duel on the Mississippi
1955
as Lili Scarlet
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
1954
as Jeanette
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950
as Nicole Dupre
The Killing of Sister George
1968
as Betty Thaxter
Siren of Bagdad
1953
as Princess Zendi
Count Your Blessings
1959
as Albertine
Uranium Boom
1956
as Jean Williams
Sangaree
1953
as Martha Darby
Snow White and the Three Stooges
1961
as Witch
The Black Knight
1954
as Linet
Battle of the V-1
1958
as Zofia
The Lady and the Bandit
1951
as Joyce Greene
Timber Tramps
1975
as Miami Lills
Plunder of the Sun
1953
as Anna Luz
The Day Will Dawn
1942
as Ingrid
Desperate Search
1952
as Nora Stead
The Magic Carpet
1951
as Lida
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
1999
as Self
Don't Take It to Heart
1944
as Lady Mary
Crook's Tour
1940
as Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
They Met in the Dark
1943
as Mary, Manicurist (as Pat Medina)
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
1956
as Sarita
The Foxes of Harrow
1947
as Desiree
Lady in the Iron Mask
1952
as Princess Anne / Princess Louise
Pirates of Tripoli
1955
as Princess Karjan
Hotel Reserve
1944
as Odette Roux
Drums of Tahiti
1954
as Wanda Spence
The Red Cloak
1955
as Laura Lanfranchi
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
1945
as Joan Dodd
Stranger at My Door
1956
as Peg Jarret
The Fighting O'Flynn
1949
as Fancy Free
Simply Terrific
1938
as Heather Carfax
Mr. Satan
1938
as A Girl
Children of Chance
1949
as Agostina
Waltz Time
1945
as Cenci Prohaska
Double or Quits
1938
as Caroline
Aladdin and His Lamp
1952
as Princess Jasmine
About 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 oft… With 80 credits spanning from 1938 to 1999, Patricia Medina has appeared in 50 films and 30 TV shows.
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- Miami Exposé (1956) — as Lila Hodges
- The Three Musketeers (1948) — as Kitty
- Valentino (1951) — as Lila Reyes
- The Jackpot (1950) — as Hilda Jones
- Botany Bay (1952) — as Sally Munroe
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