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Nov 14, 2017 · Dick Powell was a Southern boy, although you’d never know it from his voice. Born in Arkansas in 1904, Powell grew up in the Ozark Mountains. But, he was no drawling hillbilly — he attended college in Little Rock where he developed a taste for literature, a taste for business, and a taste for music, not necessarily in that order.
Biography. 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). Prior to that film, Powell was a bankable ...
Biography. On November 14, 1904, Richard Ewing Powell was born to Ewing and Sallie Powell in Mountain View, Arkansas. They already had one son, Howard, and in two years would complete the family with Luther. Ewing was the head of the International Harvester Company and his job kept him moving around the state.
Mar 12, 2018 · 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.
Nov 1, 2016 · Published. 7 years ago. on. November 1, 2016. By. Alastair James. Few actors have changed their image in mid-career as totally and as successfully as Dick Powell. He joined Warners in the early Thirties in time for the heyday of that studio’s musicals.
Actor | Director | Producer | Singer Born Richard Powell on Nov. 14, 1904 in Mountain View, AR. Died Jan. 2, 1963 of cancer in Dick Powell's Wilshire Boulevard apartment, Calif. D ick...
The Dick Powell Theatre: Created by Richard Alan Simmons. With Dick Powell, David Niven, June Allyson, Oscar Beregi Jr.. Powell served as host and, in early shows at least, occasional star in this dramatic anthology. It was his last television series and contained his last filmed acting (episode: 'The Court-Martial of Captain Wycliff').
