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Patricia Owens
Actor
Born January 17, 1925Died August 31, 2000 (75 years)
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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 (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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Filmography
| 1997 | Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years · as Actress 'the Fly' |
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles · as Helene Delambre |
| 1979 | The Horror Show · as Cast |
| 1968 | The Destructors · as Charlie |
| 1965 | Black Spurs · as Clare |
| 1963 | Burke's Law (TV Series) · as Sharon O'brien |
| 1963 | Walk a Tightrope · as Ellen Sheppard |
| 1961 | X-15 · as Margaret Brandon |
| 1961 | Gunfight at Black Horse Canyon · as Katherine |
| 1961 | 7 Women from Hell · as Grace Ingram |
| 1961 | Bus Stop (TV Series) |
| 1961 | Follow The Sun (TV Series) · as Margaret Jackson |
| 1960 | Hell to Eternity · as Sheila Lincoln |
| 1959 | Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) · as Rusty Haynes |
| 1959 | Five Gates to Hell · as Joy |
| 1959 | These Thousand Hills · as Joyce |
| 1959 | The Untouchables (TV Series) · as Marcy Devon |
| 1958 | The Law and Jake Wade · as Peggy |
| 1958 | The Gun Runners · as Lucy Martin |
| 1958 | The Fly · as Helene Delambre |
| 1957 | Sayonara · as Eileen Webster |
| 1957 | No Down Payment · as Jean Martin |
| 1957 | Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) · as Kay Armory White |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as June Burgess |
| 1957 | Island in the Sun · as Sylvia Fleury |
| 1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) · as Katherine Anne Murdock |
| 1957 | Alive on Saturday · as Sally Parker |
| 1955 | Guys and Dolls · as One Of The Bridesmaids |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Stella Ballister |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Nora |
| 1954 | Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) · as Betty Hartley |
| 1954 | The Good Die Young · as Winnie |
| 1954 | Lassie (TV Series) |
| 1954 | The Unholy Four · as Blonde (as Pat Owens) |
| 1953 | Knights of the Round Table · as Lady Vivien (uncredited) |
| 1953 | House of Blackmail · as Joan |
| 1953 | Colonel March Investigates · as Betty Hartley |
| 1952 | Ghost Ship · as Party Girl (joyce) |
| 1952 | Crow Hollow · as Willow, Opal's Companion (as Pat Owens) |
| 1951 | Mystery Junction · as Mabel Dawn (as Pat Owens) |
| 1950 | Old Mother Riley, Headmistress · as Girl |
| 1950 | The Happiest Days of Your Life · as Angela Parry |
| 1949 | |
| 1948 | |
| 1947 | While the Sun Shines · as Minor Role |
| 1944 | Her Man Gilbey · as (uncredited) |
| 1944 | You Can't Do Without Love · as Bit Part |
| 1944 | Give Us the Moon · as Chambermaid |
| 1943 | Miss London Ltd. · as Miss London |