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Patricia Owens

Patricia Owens

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

Personal information

Birthday

1925-01-17

Birth Place

Golden, British Columbia, Canada

Movies and TV shows :

poster

Adventures in Paradise

1959

5.7

TV
poster

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

7.7

TV
Alive on Saturday

Alive on Saturday

1957

0.0

Movie
Bait

Bait

1950

0.0

Movie
Black Spurs

Black Spurs

1965

6.0

Movie
poster

Burke's Law

1963

6.0

TV
poster

Bus Stop

1961

0.0

TV
Colonel March Investigates

Colonel March Investigates

1953

6.0

Movie
poster

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

1956

7.3

TV
Crow Hollow

Crow Hollow

1952

5.8

Movie
English Without Tears

English Without Tears

1944

5.7

Movie
Five Gates to Hell

Five Gates to Hell

1959

4.0

Movie
Ghost Ship

Ghost Ship

1952

5.2

Movie
Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon

Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon

1961

5.6

Movie
poster

Gunsmoke

1955

6.5

TV
Hell to Eternity

Hell to Eternity

1960

6.6

Movie
House of Blackmail

House of Blackmail

1953

6.0

Movie
Island in the Sun

Island in the Sun

1957

6.5

Movie
Knights of the Round Table

Knights of the Round Table

1953

5.9

Movie
poster

Lassie

1954

6.1

TV
Miss London Ltd.

Miss London Ltd.

1943

5.2

Movie
Mystery Junction

Mystery Junction

1951

5.6

Movie
No Down Payment

No Down Payment

1957

6.3

Movie
Paper Orchid

Paper Orchid

1949

5.0

Movie
poster

Perry Mason

1957

7.7

TV
Sayonara

Sayonara

1957

6.6

Movie
Seven Women from Hell

Seven Women from Hell

1961

3.7

Movie
Tale of Three Women

Tale of Three Women

1954

0.0

Movie
The Destructors

The Destructors

1968

5.2

Movie
The Fly

The Fly

1958

7.0

Movie
The Good Die Young

The Good Die Young

1954

6.4

Movie
The Gun Runners

The Gun Runners

1958

6.0

Movie
The Happiest Days of Your Life

The Happiest Days of Your Life

1950

6.3

Movie
The Law and Jake Wade

The Law and Jake Wade

1958

6.6

Movie
The Stranger Came Home

The Stranger Came Home

1954

5.5

Movie
These Thousand Hills

These Thousand Hills

1959

6.2

Movie
Things Happen at Night

Things Happen at Night

1948

4.3

Movie
poster

This Is Your Life

1952

6.6

TV
Walk a Tightrope

Walk a Tightrope

1963

6.3

Movie
X-15

X-15

1961

5.9

Movie