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Apr 25, 2024 · William Powell (born July 29, 1892, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died March 5, 1984, Palm Springs, California) was a versatile American motion picture and stage actor who played villains in Hollywood silent films and intelligent, debonair leading men in the sound era. He is best remembered as Nick Charles in The Thin Man series of films.
William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was an American actor. A major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the Thin Man series based on the Nick and Nora Charles characters created by Dashiell Hammett.
Mar 6, 1984 · William Horatio Powell was born in Pittsburgh on July 29, 1892. He started making speeches soon after he could talk, according to his mother, the former Nettie Brady.
Dec 22, 2002 · That's certainly the case in "The Thin Man" (1934), a murder mystery in which the murder and the mystery are insignificant compared to the personal styles of the actors. Powell and Myrna Loy co-star as Nick and Nora Charles, a retired detective and his rich wife, playfully in love and both always a little drunk. Advertisement.
William Powell (1892–1984) and Myrna Loy (1905–1993) starred in 13 movies together in the 1930s and '40s. Loy also had an uncredited cameo in their 14th and last film together, The Senator Was Indiscreet, which starred Powell. Their frequent pairing - always playing a couple - and on-screen chemistry, especially in their six popular Thin ...
William Horatio Powell was born in Pittsburgh, the son of a public accountant, and briefly studied at the University of Kansas before heading for New York City and the stage. By 1920 he was acting in a successful Broadway production, Spanish Love , which led to an offer to play the villain opposite John Barrymore in a silent-film version of ...
Aug 7, 2007 · To not include the pairing of William Powell and Myrna Loy in the wonderful Thin Man series would be inexcusable. The writer Dashiell Hammett wrote the Thin Man as a film script about two unlikely people, one of whom just happens to be a retired detective Nick Charles (William Powell) and his much younger, wealthy new wife Norah (Myrna Loy).
