Name
Tyrone Power
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1914-05-05
Deathday
1958-11-15 (44 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
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- 1952 Diplomatic Courier as Mike Kells
- 1990 Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths as (archive footage)
- 2000 Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)
- 1940 The Mark of Zorro as Don Diego Vega, aka Zorro
- 1957 The Sun Also Rises as Jake Barnes
- 1942 The Black Swan as Jamie Waring
- 1957 Witness for the Prosecution as Leonard Vole
- 1951 Rawhide as Tom Owens
- 1956 The Eddy Duchin Story as Eddy Duchin
- 1941 Blood and Sand as Juan
- 1950 The Black Rose as Walter of Gurnie
- 1939 Second Fiddle as Jimmy Sutton
- 1939 Jesse James as Jesse Woodson James
- 1939 Rose of Washington Square as Bart Clinton
- 1938 Marie Antoinette as Count Axel de Fersen
- 1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band as Alexander - Roger Grant
- 1937 Thin Ice as Prince Rudolph
- 1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Benjamin Blake
- 1949 Prince of Foxes as Andrea Orsini
- 1947 Captain from Castile as Pedro De Vargas
- 1955 The Long Gray Line as Martin Maher
- 1953 King of the Khyber Rifles as Capt. Alan King
- 1955 Untamed as Paul Van Riebeck
- 1940 Johnny Apollo as Robert Cain Jr. (aka Johnny Apollo)
- 1951 The House in the Square as Peter Standish
- 1941 A Yank in the R.A.F. as Tim Baker
- 1947 Nightmare Alley as Stanton 'Stan' Carlisle
- 1982 Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
- 1937 Love Is News as Steve Leyton
- 1936 Lloyd's of London as Jonathan Blake
- 1939 Day-time Wife as Ken Norton
- 1946 The Razor's Edge as Larry Darrell
- 1943 Crash Dive as Lt. Ward Stewart
- 1940 Brigham Young as Jonathan Kent
- 1950 American Guerrilla in the Philippines as Ensign Chuck Palmer
- 1938 In Old Chicago as Dion O'Leary
- 1957 Seven Waves Away as Alec Holmes
- 1972 Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Jacob 'Jake' Barnes (archive footage)
- 1942 This Above All as Clive Briggs
- 1948 The Luck of the Irish as Stephen Fitzgerald
- 1948 That Wonderful Urge as Thomas Jefferson Tyler
- 1965 Uncertain Verification as (archive footage)
- 1939 The Rains Came as Major Rama Safti
- 1938 Suez as Ferdinand de Lesseps
- 1937 Café Metropole as Alexis
- 1936 Girls' Dormitory as Count Vallais
- 1982 Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
- 1937 Second Honeymoon as Raoul McLiesh
- 1952 Pony Soldier as Constable Duncan MacDonald
- 1936 Ladies in Love as Karl Lanyi
- 1953 The Mississippi Gambler as Mark Fallon
- 1957 The Rising of the Moon as Self - Host
- 1939 Hollywood Hobbies as Self (uncredited)
- 1941 Three Of A Kind as Himself
- 1935 Northern Frontier as Mountie (uncredited)
- 1990 Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self (archive footage)
- 1932 Tom Brown of Culver as Donald MacKenzie
- 1943 Show-Business at War as Self
- 1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- 1938 Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
- 2015 Jornal Português (1938-1951) as Self (archive footage)
- 1943 Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform as Himself
- 1936 Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- 1997 The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender as Self (archive footage)
- 1955 The Red, White and Blue Line as Self
- 1939 Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 as Tyrone Power
- 2010 Lusitanian Illusion as Self (archive footage)
- 1934 Flirtation Walk as Cadet (uncredited)
- 1992 Death Scenes 2 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1937 Ali Baba Goes to Town as Himself
- 1953 The World's Most Beautiful Girls as Self
- 1988 Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2000 The Many Faces of Zorro as Self (archive footage)
- 1980 Gay, Gay Hollywood as Self
- 1990 Death In Hollywood
- 1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1948 Bambi ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1956 Cinépanorama ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1950 What's My Line? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Jean
