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Patricia Owens
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Patricia Owens
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Acting
Birthday
1925-01-17,Golden, British Columbia, Canada
Gender
Female
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Patricia Owens (17 January 1925, Golden, British Columbia - 31 August 2000, Lancaster, California) was a Canadian-born American actress, working in Hollywood. She appeared in about 40 films and 10 TV episodes in a career lasting from 1943 to 1968. Canadian-born actress Patricia Owens moved to England with her parents in 1933, and ten years later, at age 18, she made her motion-picture debut in Val Guest's musical comedy Miss London Ltd. The following year, she had a small role in Harold French's social satire English Without Tears. Her career continued in this manner for the next few years, Owens getting ever-larger roles in generally better movies (though not always—the same year in which she worked in the Launder-Gilliat production of The Happiest Days of Your Life, one of the funniest movies ever made in England, she also appeared in the abysmal Old Mother Riley, Headmistress). Her career took a giant step upward when she was seen by a 20th Century Fox executive while performing in a theatrical production of Sabrina Fair and was offered a screen test. The result was a contract with the studio and a move to Hollywood. Her first American film was Island in the Sun (1957) for Fox, and then Owens was loaned out to Warner Bros. to play opposite Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara (1957), one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year. Owens spent the rest of 1957 working mostly on loan-out, but it was a 1958 Fox production that secured her place in motion picture history—as Helene Delambre, the wife of scientist Andre Delambre in The Fly (1958), co-starring with David Hedison and Vincent Price. Owens carried much of the film's story and drama, which were told in flashback from her character's point-of-view. The Fly was one of the most successful science fiction movies of the decade; the image of Owens unmasking her stricken husband and screaming at what she sees—and the shot of her horrified visage seen in a "fly's eye" view—became one of the defining moments in the genre. Unfortunately for Owens, she never got another movie half as good as The Fly, from Fox or anyone else, and in 1961 was reduced to working in the threadbare, backlot POW/jungle chase drama Seven Women from Hell. Owens made occasional television appearances, on series such as Perry Mason and Burke's Law, but these were relatively infrequent. Owens also starred in one of the 17 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents directed by Hitchcock himself, "The Crystal Trench" (1959). By 1965, she was working in Black Spurs, one of producer A.C. Lyles' B-Westerns, renowned for their use of aging genre stars, and Owens retired from movies after portraying Richard Egan's love interest in the low-budget espionage thriller The Destructors (1968). Her last professional appearance was in a 1968 episode of Lassie. She was the third wife of screenwriter and producer Sy Bartlett. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patricia Owens (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

7

The Fly
1958-07-16

Colonel March Investigates

6

Colonel March Investigates
1953-07-01

6.652

Sayonara
1957-12-25

Island in the Sun

6.722

Island in the Sun
1957-06-12

The Law and Jake Wade

6.6

The Law and Jake Wade
1958-06-06

These Thousand Hills

6.3

These Thousand Hills
1959-05-07

The Gun Runners

6

The Gun Runners
1958-08-01

Seven Women from Hell

3.7

Seven Women from Hell
1961-10-01

5.8

Crow Hollow
1952-08-01

The Stranger Came Home

5.5

The Stranger Came Home
1954-09-24

No Down Payment

6.3

No Down Payment
1957-10-30

5.2

Ghost Ship
1952-10-01

Mystery Junction

5.6

Mystery Junction
1951-09-01

Things Happen at Night

4.3

Things Happen at Night
1948-11-03

5

Paper Orchid
1949-04-01

Five Gates to Hell

4.4

Five Gates to Hell
1959-09-23

0

Bait
1950-01-31

Tale of Three Women

0

Tale of Three Women
1954-01-01

Alive on Saturday

0

Alive on Saturday
1957-02-01

House of Blackmail

6

House of Blackmail
1953-07-13

The Destructors

5.2

The Destructors
1968-05-03

Walk a Tightrope

6.25

Walk a Tightrope
1963-08-26

5.9

X-15
1961-12-22

6.031

Black Spurs
1965-05-28

Hell to Eternity

6.6

Hell to Eternity
1960-08-01

Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon

5.6

Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon
1961-10-17

Knights of the Round Table

5.9

Knights of the Round Table
1953-12-22

The Happiest Days of Your Life

6.4

The Happiest Days of Your Life
1950-03-08

Miss London Ltd.

5.2

Miss London Ltd.
1943-06-14

The Good Die Young

6.486

The Good Die Young
1954-03-02

English Without Tears

5.7

English Without Tears
1944-07-28

6

Burke's Law
1963-09-20

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

7.712

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

6.1

Lassie
1954-09-12

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

7.732

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02

0

Bus Stop
1961-10-01

This Is Your Life

6.3

This Is Your Life
1952-10-01

Adventures in Paradise

5.7

Adventures in Paradise
1959-10-05

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

7.3

Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956-02-22