Patricia Owens

Patricia Owens

  • Birthday: 1925-01-17
  • Deathday: 2000-08-31
  • Place of birth: Golden, British Columbia, Canada
  • Also know as: Pat Owens

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

Seven Women from Hell

1961

As Grace Ingram

The Fly

1958

As Helene Delambre

Sayonara

1957

As Eileen Webster

Five Gates to Hell

1959

As Joy

Alive on Saturday

1957

As Sally Parker

The Destructors

1968

As Charlie

Walk a Tightrope

1964

As Ellen Sheppard

The Law and Jake Wade

1958

As Peggy

The Gun Runners

1958

As Lucy Martin

Crow Hollow

1952

As Willow, Opal's Companion (as Pat Owens)

Mystery Junction

1951

As Mabel Dawn (as Pat Owens)

These Thousand Hills

1959

As Joyce

Bait

1950

As Anna Hastings

No Down Payment

1957

As Jean Martin

House of Blackmail

1953

As Joan

Hell to Eternity

1960

As Sheila Lincoln

Paper Orchid

1949

As

Colonel March Investigates

1953

As Betty Hartley

X-15

1961

As Margaret Brandon

Island in the Sun

1957

As Sylvia Fleury

The Unholy Four

1954

As Blonde (as Pat Owens)

Black Spurs

1965

As Clare

Tale of Three Women

1954

As Mary (segment "Final Twist' story)

Ghost Ship

1952

As Party Girl (Joyce)

Miss London Ltd.

1943

As Miss London

Knights of the Round Table

1953

As Lady Vivien (uncredited)

The Happiest Days of Your Life

1950

As Angela Parry

The Good Die Young

1954

As Winnie

English Without Tears

1944

As (uncredited)

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