Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 19, 1919
Died
Apr 28, 2012
Place of Birth
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Credits
80 titles
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
Filmography
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
Self
Timber Tramps
Miami Lills
To Rome with Love
Latitude Zero
Lucretia
The Killing of Sister George
Betty Thaxter
Mannix
Branded
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Lucia Belmont
The Rogues
Countess Marissa Maricelli
Burke's Law
Serena Diablo
Grindl
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Wife
Snow White and the Three Stooges
Witch
Cain's Hundred
Jenny Stapleton
Kraft Mystery Theatre
Thriller
Nadja
Coronado 9
Startime
Gentlewoman
Adventures in Paradise
Mme. Celeste Soulange
The Rebel
Cynthia Kenyon
The Third Man
Lock-Up
Riverboat
Eileen Mason
Bonanza
Isabella Maria Ynez Y Castra De La Cuesta / Rosita Morales
Tightrope
Count Your Blessings
Albertine
Black Saddle
Carla Doyle
Rawhide
Ruthanne Harper
Battle of the V-1
Zofia
Zorro
Perry Mason
Harriet Balfour
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Buckskin Lady
Angela Medley
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
Miami Exposé
Lila Hodges
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Sarita
Stranger at My Door
Peg Jarret
Uranium Boom
Jean Williams
The Red Cloak
Laura Lanfranchi
Duel on the Mississippi
Lili Scarlet
Mr. Arkadin
Mily
Pirates of Tripoli
Princess Karjan
Climax!
Laura
The Black Knight
Linet
Drums of Tahiti
Wanda Spence
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Jeanette
Plunder of the Sun
Anna Luz
Siren of Bagdad
Princess Zendi
Sangaree
Martha Darby
General Electric Theater
Marie-Claire