Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1919-07-19
Day of Death
2012-04-28
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.
Filmography (50)
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
1999
Timber Tramps
1975
Latitude Zero
1969
The Killing of Sister George
1968
Snow White and the Three Stooges
1961
Count Your Blessings
1959
Battle of the V-1
1958
The Buckskin Lady
1957
Miami Exposé
1956
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
1956
Stranger at My Door
1956
Uranium Boom
1956
The Red Cloak
1955
Duel on the Mississippi
1955
