Tyrone Power
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 5, 1914
- Died
- November 15, 1958 (aged 44)
- Birthplace
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Biography
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. 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. 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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Filmography
Jornal Português (1938-1951)
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Lusitanian Illusion
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Movie · as Jacob 'Jake' Barnes (archive footage)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Many Faces of Zorro
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Death Scenes 2
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Death In Hollywood
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Movie · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Showbiz Goes to War
Movie · as (archive footage)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Gay, Gay Hollywood
Movie · as Self
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Uncertain Verification
Movie · as (archive footage)
The Sun Also Rises
Movie · as Jake Barnes
Witness for the Prosecution
Movie · as Leonard Vole
Seven Waves Away
Movie · as Alec Holmes
The Rising of the Moon
Movie · as Self - Host
The Eddy Duchin Story
Movie · as Eddy Duchin
Cinépanorama
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Jean · 1 ep
The Long Gray Line
Movie · as Martin Maher
Untamed
Movie · as Paul Van Riebeck
The Red, White and Blue Line
Movie · as Self
King of the Khyber Rifles
Movie · as Capt. Alan King
The Mississippi Gambler
Movie · as Mark Fallon
The World's Most Beautiful Girls
Movie · as Self
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Diplomatic Courier
Movie · as Mike Kells
Pony Soldier
Movie · as Constable Duncan MacDonald
Rawhide
Movie · as Tom Owens
The House in the Square
Movie · as Peter Standish
The Black Rose
Movie · as Walter of Gurnie
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Movie · as Ensign Chuck Palmer
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Prince of Foxes
Movie · as Andrea Orsini
The Luck of the Irish
Movie · as Stephen Fitzgerald
That Wonderful Urge
Movie · as Thomas Jefferson Tyler
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Bambi
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Captain from Castile
Movie · as Pedro De Vargas
Nightmare Alley
Movie · as Stanton 'Stan' Carlisle
The Razor's Edge
Movie · as Larry Darrell
Crash Dive
Movie · as Lt. Ward Stewart
Show-Business at War
Movie · as Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform
Movie · as Himself
The Black Swan
Movie · as Jamie Waring
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Movie · as Benjamin Blake
This Above All
Movie · as Clive Briggs
Blood and Sand
Movie · as Juan
A Yank in the R.A.F.
Movie · as Tim Baker
Three Of A Kind
Movie · as Himself
The Mark of Zorro
Movie · as Don Diego Vega, aka Zorro
Johnny Apollo
Movie · as Robert Cain Jr. (aka Johnny Apollo)
Brigham Young
Movie · as Jonathan Kent
Second Fiddle
Movie · as Jimmy Sutton
Jesse James
Movie · as Jesse Woodson James
Rose of Washington Square
Movie · as Bart Clinton
Day-time Wife
Movie · as Ken Norton
The Rains Came
Movie · as Major Rama Safti
Hollywood Hobbies
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Movie · as Tyrone Power
Marie Antoinette
Movie · as Count Axel de Fersen
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Movie · as Alexander - Roger Grant
In Old Chicago
Movie · as Dion O'Leary
Suez
Movie · as Ferdinand de Lesseps
Hollywood Goes to Town
Movie · as Self
Thin Ice
Movie · as Prince Rudolph
Love Is News
Movie · as Steve Leyton
Café Metropole
Movie · as Alexis
Second Honeymoon
Movie · as Raoul McLiesh
Ali Baba Goes to Town
Movie · as Himself
Lloyd's of London
Movie · as Jonathan Blake
Girls' Dormitory
Movie · as Count Vallais
Ladies in Love
Movie · as Karl Lanyi
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Movie · as Self
Northern Frontier
Movie · as Mountie (uncredited)
Flirtation Walk
Movie · as Cadet (uncredited)
Tom Brown of Culver
Movie · as Donald MacKenzie