Tyrone Power

Acting · 1.6 popularity

Age

112

Movies

Born: May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958
From: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Biography

One of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of the mid-twentieth century, and the third Tyrone Power of four in a famed acting dynasty reaching back to the eighteenth century. His great-grandfather was the first Tyrone Power (1795-1841), a famed Irish comedian. His father, known to historians as Tyrone Power Sr., but to his contemporaries as either Tyrone Power or Tyrone Power the Younger, was a huge star in the theater (and later in films) in both classical and modern roles. His mother, Patia Riaume (Mrs. Tyrone Power), was also a Shakespearean actress as well as a respected dramatic coach. Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr., (also called Tyrone Power III; May 5, 1914 - November 15, 1958) was born at his mother's home of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1914. A frail, sickly child, he was taken by his parents to the warmer climate of southern California. After his parents' divorce, he and his sister Anne Power returned to Cincinnati with their mother. There he attended school while developing an obsession with acting. Although raised by his mother, he corresponded with his father, who encouraged his acting dreams. He was a supernumerary in his father's stage production of 'The Merchant of Venice' in Chicago and held him as he died suddenly of a heart attack later that year. Startlingly handsome, young Tyrone nevertheless struggled to find work in Hollywood. He appeared in a few small roles, then went east to do stage work. A screen test led to a contract at 20th Century Fox in 1936, and he quickly progressed to leading roles. Within a year or so, he was one of Fox's leading stars, playing in contemporary and period pieces with ease. Most of his roles were colorful without being deep, and his swordplay was more praised than his wordplay. He served in the Marine Corps in World War II as a transport pilot, and he saw action in the Pacific Theater of operations. After the war, he got his best reviews for an atypical part as a downward-spiraling con-man in Nightmare Alley (1947). Although he remained a huge star, much of his postwar work was unremarkable. He continued to do notable stage work and also began producing films. Following a fine performance in Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Power began production on Solomon and Sheba (1959). Halfway through shooting, he collapsed during a dueling scene with George Sanders, and he died of a heart attack before reaching a hospital.

Works

76 films

Witness for the Prosecution

19578.2

The Black Swan

19426.5

Nightmare Alley

19477.2

The Razor's Edge

19466.9

Jesse James

19396.5

The Mark of Zorro

19407.1

In Old Chicago

19386.7

The Long Gray Line

19557.0

Brigham Young

19404.6

Blood and Sand

19416.5

That Wonderful Urge

19486.5

The Black Rose

19506.5

The Sun Also Rises

19575.8

Diplomatic Courier

19526.2

Seven Waves Away

19577.5

The Eddy Duchin Story

19566.3

The Rising of the Moon

19576.8

The Mississippi Gambler

19537.2

The Rains Came

19396.1

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

19756.3

Crash Dive

19436.4

Anthony Quinn: An Original

19906.8

King of the Khyber Rifles

19535.9

Marie Antoinette

19386.6

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

20057.7

Untamed

19556.0

Rawhide

19516.8

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

19427.2

Love Is News

19376.3

Pony Soldier

19526.2

Ladies in Love

19366.5

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

20007.0

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

Girls' Dormitory

19366.6

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

19975.1

Rose of Washington Square

19396.7

Captain from Castile

19477.2

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

19826.0

The Luck of the Irish

19486.1

Lusitanian Illusion

20106.4

Lloyd's of London

19367.3

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1988

This Above All

19426.8

Alexander's Ragtime Band

19386.8

Prince of Foxes

19496.3

Suez

19385.5

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

19505.5

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

19366.0

Johnny Apollo

19406.8

Day-time Wife

19396.0

Showbiz Goes to War

198210.0

Ali Baba Goes to Town

19376.0

Second Fiddle

19395.1

Hollywood Goes to Town

19387.0

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

19905.7

Gay, Gay Hollywood

1980

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

19394.0

Flirtation Walk

19345.8

A Yank in the R.A.F.

19415.6

Show-Business at War

19437.0

Thin Ice

19376.8

Café Metropole

19377.3

Hollywood Hobbies

19395.6

Death In Hollywood

19906.8

The Many Faces of Zorro

20004.4

Second Honeymoon

19376.4

Uncertain Verification

19656.6

Tom Brown of Culver

19326.8

The House in the Square

19516.4

Death Scenes 2

19926.0

The World's Most Beautiful Girls

1953

The Red, White and Blue Line

19556.0

Northern Frontier

19358.0

Three Of A Kind

1941

Jornal Português (1938-1951)

2015

Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform

19437.0