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Patricia Medina

Profession
Acting
Born
July 19, 1919 · Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Died
April 28, 2012

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

Bonanza poster
Bonanza
Series · 1959 · ★ 7.5
Zorro poster
Zorro
Series · 1957 · ★ 7.6
Mr. Arkadin poster
Mr. Arkadin
Film · 1955 · ★ 6.8
The Three Musketeers poster
The Three Musketeers
Film · 1948 · ★ 6.8
Perry Mason poster
Perry Mason
Series · 1957 · ★ 7.7
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour poster
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Series · 1962 · ★ 7.9
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. poster
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Series · 1964 · ★ 7.2
The Killing of Sister George poster
The Killing of Sister George
Film · 1968 · ★ 6.3
The Beast of Hollow Mountain poster
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Film · 1956 · ★ 4.2
Mannix poster
Mannix
Series · 1967 · ★ 6.9
Rawhide poster
Rawhide
Series · 1959 · ★ 7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel poster
Have Gun, Will Travel
Series · 1957 · ★ 7.3

Filmography