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    However, in a 2001 interview with Larry King, Powell's widow June Allyson stated that the cause of death was lung cancer due to his chain smoking. [14] During the 15th Primetime Emmy Awards on May 26, 1963, the Television Academy presented a posthumous Television Academy Trustee Award to Dick Powell for his contributions to the industry.

  3. Dick Powell, who rose from babyfaced singing roles to become a movie-television giant, died of cancer Wednesday night with bis wife, June Allyson, at his side. The 58-year-old star had been in a coma for two days after a four-month battle against malignancies in hie chest and lymph, glands.

  4. 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.

  5. Dick Powell died prematurely of lung cancer in January 1963 at the age of 58. He was survived by his third wife, the actress June Allyson.

    • November 14, 1904
    • January 2, 1963
  6. Jul 23, 2019 · Jul 23, 2019 12:25 P.M. Dick Powell’s ability to reinvent himself made the television-movie giant a legend of Hollywood who died before his time. Advertisement. “ The Conqueror ,” got filmed in 1954 among the red bluffs and white dunes close to Saint George, Utah. An area handpicked by the director/producer of the film, Dick Powell.

  7. Aug 17, 2023 · From 1961 to 1963, Powell hosted and occasionally starred in the TV show The Dick Powell Show (later renamed The Dick Powell Theatre). On January 2, 1963, Powell died of cancer at the age of fifty-eight. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. For additional information: “Dick Powell.” Internet Movie Database.

  8. Oct 7, 2020 · In January 1963, director Dick Powell died at the age of 53 of lymphatic cancer. Susan Hayward suffered from skin, breast, and uterine cancers before dying in 1974 at the age of 56 of brain...

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