Tyrone Power
Acting
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.
Jornal Português (1938-1951)
Self (archive footage)
Lusitanian Illusion
Self (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Jacob 'Jake' Barnes (archive footage)
The Many Faces of Zorro
Self (archive footage)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
Death Scenes 2
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
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Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Showbiz Goes to War
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
Gay, Gay Hollywood
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Uncertain Verification
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Witness for the Prosecution
Leonard Vole
The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes
The Rising of the Moon
Self - Host
Seven Waves Away
Alec Holmes
The Eddy Duchin Story
Eddy Duchin
The Red, White and Blue Line
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Untamed
Paul Van Riebeck
The Long Gray Line
Martin Maher
King of the Khyber Rifles
Capt. Alan King
The World's Most Beautiful Girls
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The Mississippi Gambler
Mark Fallon
Diplomatic Courier
Mike Kells
Pony Soldier
Constable Duncan MacDonald
The House in the Square
Peter Standish
Rawhide
Tom Owens
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Ensign Chuck Palmer
The Black Rose
Walter of Gurnie
Prince of Foxes
Andrea Orsini
That Wonderful Urge
Thomas Jefferson Tyler
The Luck of the Irish
Stephen Fitzgerald
Captain from Castile
Pedro De Vargas
Nightmare Alley
Stanton 'Stan' Carlisle
The Razor's Edge
Larry Darrell
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform
Himself
Show-Business at War
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Crash Dive
Lt. Ward Stewart
The Black Swan
Jamie Waring
This Above All
Clive Briggs
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Benjamin Blake
A Yank in the R.A.F.
Tim Baker
Three Of A Kind
Himself
Blood and Sand
Juan
The Mark of Zorro
Don Diego Vega, aka Zorro
Brigham Young
Jonathan Kent
Johnny Apollo
Robert Cain Jr. (aka Johnny Apollo)
Day-time Wife
Ken Norton
The Rains Came
Major Rama Safti
Second Fiddle
Jimmy Sutton
Rose of Washington Square
Bart Clinton
Hollywood Hobbies
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Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Tyrone Power
Jesse James
Jesse Woodson James
Suez
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Marie Antoinette
Count Axel de Fersen
Hollywood Goes to Town
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
Alexander - Roger Grant
In Old Chicago
Dion O'Leary
Second Honeymoon
Raoul McLiesh
Ali Baba Goes to Town
Himself
Thin Ice
Prince Rudolph
Café Metropole
Alexis
Love Is News
Steve Leyton
Lloyd's of London
Jonathan Blake
Ladies in Love
Karl Lanyi
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
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Girls' Dormitory
Count Vallais
Northern Frontier
Mountie (uncredited)
Flirtation Walk
Cadet (uncredited)
Tom Brown of Culver
Donald MacKenzie