Tyrone Power

1914-1958

Biography: life and films

Tyrone Power was an American actor whose birth name was Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr.. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA on 5th May 1914 and died in Madrid, Spain on 15th November 1958, aged 44.

His best films as an actor include Henry King's Jesse James (1939), Rouben Mamoulian's The Mark of Zorro (1940), Edmund Goulding's The Razor's Edge (1946), Nightmare Alley (1947) and Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957).

Tyrone Power appeared in 54 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Henry King (11 films), Henry Hathaway (5), Sidney Lanfield (2), Rouben Mamoulian (2), John Ford (2), Gregory Ratoff (2), Edward H. Griffith (2) and Edmund Goulding (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (31 films), romance (18), comedy-romance (8), comedy (8), history (7), War (6), Western (5), comedy-drama (3), Biography (3), Thriller (2), Fantasy (2) and Documentary (2).

Our average rating for Tyrone Power over all films is: 3.1

Filmography

Key: a = actor

School for Wives (1925) [a]

Tom Brown of Culver (1932) [a]

Flirtation Walk (1934) [a]

Northern Frontier (1935) [a]

Girls' Dormitory (1936) [a]

Ladies in Love (1936) [a]

Lloyd's of London (1936) [a]

Café Metropole (1937) [a]

In Old Chicago (1937) [a]

Love Is News (1937) [a]

Second Honeymoon (1937) [a]

Thin Ice (1937) [a]

Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) [a]

Marie Antoinette (1938) [a]

Suez (1938) [a]

Day-Time Wife (1939) [a]

Jesse James (1939) [a]

Rose of Washington Square (1939) [a]

Second Fiddle (1939) [a]

The Rains Came (1939) [a]

Brigham Young (1940) [a]

Johnny Apollo (1940) [a]

The Mark of Zorro (1940) [a]

A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) [a]

Blood and Sand (1941) [a]

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) [a]

The Black Swan (1942) [a]

This Above All (1942) [a]

Crash Dive (1943) [a]

The Razor's Edge (1946) [a]

Captain from Castile (1947) [a]

Nightmare Alley (1947) [a]

That Wonderful Urge (1948) [a]

The Luck of the Irish (1948) [a]

Prince of Foxes (1949) [a]

American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) [a]

The Black Rose (1950) [a]

Rawhide (1951) [a]

The House in the Square (1951) [a]

Diplomatic Courier (1952) [a]

Pony Soldier (1952) [a]

King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) [a]

The Mississippi Gambler (1953) [a]

The Long Gray Line (1955) [a]

Untamed (1955) [a]

The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) [a]

Seven Waves Away (1957) [a]

The Rising of the Moon (1957) [a]

The Sun Also Rises (1957) [a]

Witness for the Prosecution (1957) [a]

Solomon and Sheba (1959) [a]

Inside Daisy Clover (1965) [a]

All This and World War II (1976) [a]

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997) [a]



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