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