Patricia Medina

Patricia Medina was born on Jul 19, 1919 in UK. Patricia Medina's big-screen debut came with Dinner at the Ritz directed by Harold D. Schuster in 1937. Patricia Medina is known for Confidential Report directed by Orson Welles, Orson Welles stars as Gregory Arkadin and Michael Redgrave as Burgomil Trebitsch. The upcoming new movie Patricia Medina plays is The Timber Tramps which will be released on Dec 31, 1975.

Patricia Paz Maria Medina was born on July 19, 1919 in Liverpool, England to a Spanish father and an English mother. She began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s and worked her way up to leading roles in the mid-1940s, then left for Hollywood. Medina teamed up with British actor Louis Hayward and they appeared together in Nouvelles aventures du capitaine Blood (1950), Dick Turpin, bandit gentilhomme (1951), Lady in the Iron Mask (1952) and Les évasions du capitaine Blood (1952). Voluptuous and exotic-looking, Medina was often typecast in period melodramas such as Le serment du chevalier noir (1954). Two of her more notable films were William Witney's L'inconnu du ranch (1956) and Orson Welles's Monsieur Arkadin - Dossier secret (1955), a follow-up of Le troisième homme (1949), based on the radio series "The Lives of Harry Lime". Although prolific during the early 1950s, her film career faded away by the end of the decade, leading to stage and television roles.Medina appeared as Margarita Cortazar in four episodes of Walt Disney's Zorro (1957), and as Diana Coulter in two episodes of Richard Boone's Have Gun - Will Travel (1957). She returned to the screen in Robert Aldrich's adaptation of the lesbian-themed drama Faut-il tuer Sister George? (1968). She and her husband, American actor Joseph Cotten, toured together in several plays and on Broadway in the murder mystery, "Calculated Risk". Her appearances on television include episodes of Bonanza (1959) titled "The Spanish Grant" and Suspicion (1962) titled "See the Monkey Dance". She played Harriet Balfour in an episode of Perry Mason (1957) titled "The Case of the Lucky Loser", and as Lucia Belmont in an episode of Des agents très spéciaux (1964) titled "The Foxes and Hounds Affair".Patricia Medina retired from acting in 1978 after 40 years in the motion picture industry. She died at age 92 of natural causes on April 28, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. She was interred at Blandford Cemetary in Petersburg, Virginia, alongside Cotten.