Tyrone Power

Acting · 1.4 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

Jesse James

19396.5

The Razor's Edge

19466.9

The Mark of Zorro

19407.1

Seven Waves Away

19577.5

The Sun Also Rises

19575.8

In Old Chicago

19386.7

The Long Gray Line

19557.0

Blood and Sand

19416.5

Brigham Young

19404.6

The Rising of the Moon

19576.8

The Eddy Duchin Story

19566.3

The Black Rose

19506.5

Diplomatic Courier

19526.2

That Wonderful Urge

19486.5

Rawhide

19516.8

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

19756.3

Anthony Quinn: An Original

19906.8

The Mississippi Gambler

19537.2

Girls' Dormitory

19366.6

Ladies in Love

19366.5

The Rains Came

19396.1

Marie Antoinette

19386.6

Crash Dive

19436.4

Lusitanian Illusion

20106.4

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

Untamed

19556.0

Love Is News

19376.3

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

20057.7

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

19427.2

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1988

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

20007.0

Captain from Castile

19477.2

Pony Soldier

19526.2

Lloyd's of London

19367.3

King of the Khyber Rifles

19535.9

Suez

19385.5

Johnny Apollo

19406.8

Alexander's Ragtime Band

19386.8

Prince of Foxes

19496.3

Rose of Washington Square

19396.7

The Luck of the Irish

19486.1

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

19975.1

A Yank in the R.A.F.

19415.6

Hollywood Goes to Town

19387.0

This Above All

19426.8

Ali Baba Goes to Town

19376.0

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

19505.5

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

19826.0

Show-Business at War

19437.0

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

19394.0

Showbiz Goes to War

198210.0

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

19366.0

Second Fiddle

19395.1

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

19905.7

Hollywood Hobbies

19395.6

The Many Faces of Zorro

20004.4

Flirtation Walk

19345.8

Café Metropole

19377.3

Day-time Wife

19396.0

Death In Hollywood

19906.8

Thin Ice

19376.8

Death Scenes 2

19926.0

Uncertain Verification

19656.6

Gay, Gay Hollywood

1980

Second Honeymoon

19376.4

The House in the Square

19516.4

Tom Brown of Culver

19326.8

The World's Most Beautiful Girls

1953

Northern Frontier

19358.0

The Red, White and Blue Line

19556.0

Jornal Português (1938-1951)

2015

Three Of A Kind

1941

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

19437.0