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Richard Ewing Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) [1] was an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardboiled leading man, starring in projects of a more dramatic nature.
Dick Powell. Actor: Murder, My Sweet. Few actors ever managed a complete image transition as thoroughly as did Dick Powell: in his case, from the boyish, wavy-haired crooner in musicals to rugged crime fighters in film noirs.
- November 14, 1904
- January 2, 1963
Dick Powell. Actor: Murder, My Sweet. Few actors ever managed a complete image transition as thoroughly as did Dick Powell: in his case, from the boyish, wavy-haired crooner in musicals to rugged crime fighters in film noirs.
- January 1, 1
- Mountain View, Arkansas, USA
- January 1, 1
- West Los Angeles, California, USA
Diagnosed with lung cancer six years later, Dick Powell succumbed to the disease the day after New Year’s, 1963. He was just 58. He left an estate valued at $10 million, a tribute to his business instincts and success as a producer. But what I and his other living fans remember is up on the screen — it’s Dick Powell the actor.
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Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss.
Nov 14, 2017 · Sadly, Four Star Productions would outlive Dick Powell. He developed cancer in 1962, and died in early 1963 at the age of fifty-nine. Some theorize that his premature death was the result of exposure to radioactive fallout while directing the adventure film The Conqueror at an abandoned atomic testing site in Nevada a decade earlier.
A romantic singing lead in a number of musicals throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Dick Powell traded in his tenor voice and good guy image to take on a more hard-boiled persona following a career-transforming performance as Phillip Marlowe in the classic film noir "Murder, My Sweet" (1944).
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