
Patricia Medina
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.
46
Films
31
TV Shows
Known For
77 Credits
Perry Mason
as Harriet Balfour
1957

Bonanza
as Isabella Maria Ynez Y Castra De La Cuesta / Rosita Morales
1959

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Wife
1962

Mannix
1967

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957

Climax!
as Laura
1954

Climax!
as Liz Burdock
1954

Zorro
1957

Rawhide
as Ruthanne Harper
1959

Burke's Law
as Serena Diablo
1963

Thriller
as Nadja
1960

Thriller
as Victorine Lafourcade
1960