
Patricia Medina
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1919-07-19
Day of Death
2012-04-28 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
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
Acting
(1999)
(1975)
Timber Tramps
as Miami Lills
(1969)
Latitude Zero
as Lucretia
(1968)
The Killing of Sister George
as Betty Thaxter
(1961)
Snow White and the Three Stooges
as Witch
(1959)
Count Your Blessings
as Albertine
(1958)
Battle of the V-1
as Zofia
(1957)
The Buckskin Lady
as Angela Medley
(1956)
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
as Sarita
(1956)
Miami Exposé
as Lila Hodges
(1956)
Stranger at My Door
as Peg Jarret
(1956)
Uranium Boom
as Jean Williams
(1955)
Duel on the Mississippi
as Lili Scarlet
(1955)
The Red Cloak
as Laura Lanfranchi
(1955)
Pirates of Tripoli
as Princess Karjan
(1955)
Mr. Arkadin
as Mily
(1954)
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
as Jeanette
(1954)
The Black Knight
as Linet
(1954)
Drums of Tahiti
as Wanda Spence
(1953)
Siren of Bagdad
as Princess Zendi
(1953)
Sangaree
as Martha Darby
(1953)
Plunder of the Sun
as Anna Luz
(1952)
Lady in the Iron Mask
as Princess Anne / Princess Louise
(1952)
Captain Pirate
as Dona Isabella
(1952)
Aladdin and His Lamp
as Princess Jasmine
(1952)
Botany Bay
as Sally Munroe
(1952)
Desperate Search
as Nora Stead
(1951)
The Lady and the Bandit
as Joyce Greene
(1951)
The Magic Carpet
as Lida
(1951)
Valentino
as Lila Reyes
(1950)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
as Nicole Dupre
(1950)
The Jackpot
as Hilda Jones
(1950)
Francis
as Maureen Gelder
(1950)
Fortunes of Captain Blood
as Isabelita Sotomayor
(1949)
Children of Chance
as Agostina
(1949)
The Fighting O'Flynn
as Fancy Free
(1948)
The Three Musketeers
as Kitty
(1947)
Moss Rose
as Audrey Ashton
(1947)
The Foxes of Harrow
as Desiree
(1946)
The Secret Heart
as Kay Burns
(1945)
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
as Joan Dodd
(1945)
Waltz Time
as Cenci Prohaska
(1944)
Don't Take It to Heart
as Lady Mary
(1944)
Hotel Reserve
as Odette Roux
(1943)
They Met in the Dark
as Mary, Manicurist (as Pat Medina)
(1942)
The Day Will Dawn
as Ingrid
(1940)
Crook's Tour
as Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
(1938)
Simply Terrific
as Heather Carfax
(1938)
Mr. Satan
as A Girl
(1938)
Double or Quits
as Caroline