Patricia 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
All Movies (50)
- Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man1999 · as Self
- Timber Tramps1975 · as Miami Lills
- Latitude Zero1969 · as Lucretia
- The Killing of Sister George1968 · as Betty Thaxter
- Snow White and the Three Stooges1961 · as Witch
- Count Your Blessings1959 · as Albertine
- Battle of the V-11958 · as Zofia
- The Buckskin Lady1957 · as Angela Medley
- Miami Exposé1956 · as Lila Hodges
- The Beast of Hollow Mountain1956 · as Sarita
- Stranger at My Door1956 · as Peg Jarret
- Uranium Boom1956 · as Jean Williams
- The Red Cloak1955 · as Laura Lanfranchi
- Duel on the Mississippi1955 · as Lili Scarlet
- Mr. Arkadin1955 · as Mily
- Pirates of Tripoli1955 · as Princess Karjan
- The Black Knight1954 · as Linet
- Drums of Tahiti1954 · as Wanda Spence
- Phantom of the Rue Morgue1954 · as Jeanette
- Plunder of the Sun1953 · as Anna Luz
- Siren of Bagdad1953 · as Princess Zendi
- Sangaree1953 · as Martha Darby
- Botany Bay1952 · as Sally Munroe
- Desperate Search1952 · as Nora Stead
- Captain Pirate1952 · as Dona Isabella
- Lady in the Iron Mask1952 · as Princess Anne / Princess Louise
- Aladdin and His Lamp1952 · as Princess Jasmine
- The Magic Carpet1951 · as Lida
- The Lady and the Bandit1951 · as Joyce Greene
- Valentino1951 · as Lila Reyes
- The Jackpot1950 · as Hilda Jones
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion1950 · as Nicole Dupre
- Fortunes of Captain Blood1950 · as Isabelita Sotomayor
- Francis1950 · as Maureen Gelder
- Children of Chance1949 · as Agostina
- The Fighting O'Flynn1949 · as Fancy Free
- The Three Musketeers1948 · as Kitty
- The Foxes of Harrow1947 · as Desiree
- Moss Rose1947 · as Audrey Ashton
- The Secret Heart1946 · as Kay Burns
- Waltz Time1945 · as Cenci Prohaska
- Kiss the Bride Goodbye1945 · as Joan Dodd
- Don't Take It to Heart1944 · as Lady Mary
- Hotel Reserve1944 · as Odette Roux
- They Met in the Dark1943 · as Mary, Manicurist (as Pat Medina)
- The Day Will Dawn1942 · as Ingrid
- Crook's Tour1940 · as Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
- Mr. Satan1938 · as A Girl
- Double or Quits1938 · as Caroline
- Simply Terrific1938 · as Heather Carfax
All TV Shows (34)
- To Rome with Love1969
- Mannix1967
- Branded1965
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.1964 · as Lucia Belmont
- The Rogues1964 · as Countess Marissa Maricelli
- Burke's Law1963 · as Serena Diablo
- Grindl1963
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962 · as Wife
- Cain's Hundred1961 · as Jenny Stapleton
- Kraft Mystery Theatre1961
- Thriller1960 · as Nadja
- Thriller1960 · as Victorine Lafourcade
- Coronado 91960
- Startime1959 · as Gentlewoman
- Adventures in Paradise1959 · as Mme. Celeste Soulange
- The Rebel1959 · as Cynthia Kenyon
- The Rebel1959 · as Lupe
- The Third Man1959
- Lock-Up1959
- Riverboat1959 · as Eileen Mason
- Bonanza1959 · as Isabella Maria Ynez Y Castra De La Cuesta / Rosita Morales
- Tightrope1959
- Black Saddle1959 · as Carla Doyle
- Rawhide1959 · as Ruthanne Harper
- Zorro1957
- Perry Mason1957 · as Harriet Balfour
- Have Gun, Will Travel1957
- Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers1956
- Climax!1954 · as Laura
- Climax!1954 · as Liz Burdock
- General Electric Theater1953 · as Marie-Claire
- General Electric Theater1953 · as Bathsheba
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as Lisa de Beck
- Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Millicent






