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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

40

Gender

Female

Birthday

1925-01-17

Day of Death

2000-08-31 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

Golden, British Columbia, Canada

Also Known As

Pat Owens

Patricia Molly Owens

Patricia 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

Known For

Acting

The Fly

1958

The Fly

as

Helene Delambre

Colonel March Investigates

1953

Colonel March Investigates

as

Betty Hartley

Sayonara

1957

Sayonara

as

Eileen Webster

Island in the Sun

1957

Island in the Sun

as

Sylvia Fleury

The Gun Runners

1958

The Gun Runners

as

Lucy Martin

Seven Women from Hell

1961

Seven Women from Hell

as

Grace Ingram

Crow Hollow

1952

Crow Hollow

as

Willow, Opal's Companion (as Pat Owens)

The Stranger Came Home

1954

The Stranger Came Home

as

Blonde (as Pat Owens)

No Down Payment

1957

No Down Payment

as

Jean Martin

Ghost Ship

1952

Ghost Ship

as

Party Girl (Joyce)

Mystery Junction

1951

Mystery Junction

as

Mabel Dawn (as Pat Owens)

Bait

1950

Bait

as

Anna Hastings

Tale of Three Women

1954

Tale of Three Women

as

Mary (segment "Final Twist' story)

Alive on Saturday

1957

Alive on Saturday

as

Sally Parker

The Destructors

1968

The Destructors

as

Charlie

Walk a Tightrope

1963

Walk a Tightrope

as

Ellen Sheppard

X-15

1961

X-15

as

Margaret Brandon

Black Spurs

1965

Black Spurs

as

Clare

Hell to Eternity

1960

Hell to Eternity

as

Sheila Lincoln

Knights of the Round Table

1953

Knights of the Round Table

as

Lady Vivien (uncredited)

Miss London Ltd.

1943

Miss London Ltd.

as

Miss London

The Good Die Young

1954

The Good Die Young

as

Winnie

English Without Tears

1944

English Without Tears

as

(uncredited)

Burke's Law

Burke's Law

as

Sharon O'Brien

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke

as

Nora

Perry Mason

Perry Mason

as

June Burgess

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as

Stella Ballister

Production

Crew

Directing