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person_profile-Patricia Owens

Patricia Owens Died at age: 75

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Patricia Owens

Date of Birth:

Jan 17, 1925

Country of birth:

Canada

Died:

Aug 31, 2000

Biography of

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.

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Patricia Owens

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Filmography of

Patricia Owens

Found 29 Movies in total

The Destructors

Charlie ( Actor )

... 1968

Black Spurs

Clare ( Actor )

... 1965

Walk a Tightrope

Ellen Sheppard ( Actor )

... 1963

X-15

Margaret Brandon ( Actor )

... 1961

... 1961

Seven Women from Hell

Grace Ingram ( Actor )

... 1961

Hell to Eternity

Sheila Lincoln ( Actor )

... 1960

Five Gates to Hell

Joy ( Actor )

... 1959

These Thousand Hills

Joyce ( Actor )

... 1959

The Gun Runners

Lucy Martin ( Actor )

... 1958

The Fly

Helene Delambre ( Actor )

... 1958

The Law and Jake Wade

Peggy ( Actor )

... 1958

Sayonara

Eileen Webster ( Actor )

... 1957

No Down Payment

Jean Martin ( Actor )

... 1957

Island in the Sun

Sylvia Fleury ( Actor )

... 1957

The Stranger Came Home

Blonde (as Pat Owens) ( Actor )

... 1954

The Good Die Young

Winnie ( Actor )

... 1954

Tale of Three Women

Mary (segment "Final Twist' story) ( Actor )

... 1954

Knights of the Round Table

Lady Vivien (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1953

House of Blackmail

Joan ( Actor )

... 1953

Colonel March Investigates

Betty Hartley ( Actor )

... 1953

Ghost Ship

Party Girl (Joyce) ( Actor )

... 1952

Crow Hollow

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

... 1952

Mystery Junction

Mabel Dawn (as Pat Owens) ( Actor )

... 1951

The Happiest Days of Your Life

Angela Parry ( Actor )

... 1950

... 1949

... 1948

English Without Tears

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

Miss London Ltd.

Miss London ( Actor )

... 1943