Tyrone Power
Acting
Born: May 5, 1914 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Died: November 15, 1958 (aged 44)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Witness for the Prosecution
1957
Nightmare Alley
1947
The Mark of Zorro
1940
Jesse James
1939
Solomon and Sheba
1959
The Razor's Edge
1946
The Black Swan
1942
The Oscars
1953
Blood and Sand
1941
Rawhide
1951
The Long Gray Line
1955
In Old Chicago
1938
Photos (6)
Movies (55)
Witness for the Prosecution
Leonard Vole
The Black Swan
Jamie Waring
Nightmare Alley
Stanton 'Stan' Carlisle
The Mark of Zorro
Don Diego Vega, aka Zorro
Blood and Sand
Juan
The Razor's Edge
Larry Darrell
The Eddy Duchin Story
Eddy Duchin
Jesse James
Jesse Woodson James
This Above All
Clive Briggs
The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes
Brigham Young
Jonathan Kent
Marie Antoinette
Count Axel de Fersen
Diplomatic Courier
Mike Kells
Love Is News
Steve Leyton
Crash Dive
Lt. Ward Stewart
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Benjamin Blake
In Old Chicago
Dion O'Leary
King of the Khyber Rifles
Capt. Alan King
The Mississippi Gambler
Mark Fallon
Untamed
Paul Van Riebeck
The Long Gray Line
Martin Maher
The Rains Came
Major Rama Safti
Johnny Apollo
Robert Cain Jr. (aka Johnny Apollo)
The Black Rose
Walter of Gurnie
Suez
Ferdinand de Lesseps
That Wonderful Urge
Thomas Jefferson Tyler
Seven Waves Away
Alec Holmes
Girls' Dormitory
Count Vallais
Rawhide
Tom Owens
Prince of Foxes
Andrea Orsini
Lloyd's of London
Jonathan Blake
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Alexander - Roger Grant
Rose of Washington Square
Bart Clinton
Captain from Castile
Pedro De Vargas
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Ensign Chuck Palmer
Second Fiddle
Jimmy Sutton
The Luck of the Irish
Stephen Fitzgerald
Pony Soldier
Constable Duncan MacDonald
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Jacob 'Jake' Barnes (archive footage)
A Yank in the R.A.F.
Tim Baker
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
(archive footage)
Ladies in Love
Karl Lanyi
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Death In Hollywood
1990
Flirtation Walk
Cadet (uncredited)
The House in the Square
Peter Standish
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
Northern Frontier
Mountie (uncredited)
Café Metropole
Alexis
Second Honeymoon
Raoul McLiesh
Day-time Wife
Ken Norton
Thin Ice
Prince Rudolph
Uncertain Verification
(archive footage)
Tom Brown of Culver
Donald MacKenzie
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Tyrone Power
TV Shows (1)
Self / Appearances (26)
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
Bambi
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
What's My Line?
Self · 1 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 2 eps
Cinépanorama
Self · 1 eps
Hollywood Hobbies
Self (uncredited)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Self (archive footage)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self (archive footage)
Lusitanian Illusion
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Goes to Town
Self
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The Rising of the Moon
Self - Host
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Show-Business at War
Self
Ali Baba Goes to Town
Himself
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
Death Scenes 2
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gay, Gay Hollywood
Self
The Many Faces of Zorro
Self (archive footage)
The World's Most Beautiful Girls
Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform
Himself
The Red, White and Blue Line
Self
Three Of A Kind
Himself
Jornal Português (1938-1951)
Self (archive footage)