Dick Powell
Born in Mountain View, Arkansas, USA — Nov 14 1904• Died Jan 02 1963
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Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss. Born in Mountain View, the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas, Powell attended the former Little Rock College in the state capital, before he started his entertainment career as a singer with the Charlie Davis Orchestra, based in the midwest. He recorded a number of records with Davis and on his own, for the Vocalion label in the late 1920s. Powell moved to Pittsburgh, where he found great local success as the Mast…
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Dick Powell's Credits
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American Experience
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Climax!
Philip Marlowe
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Self - Host
Four Star Playhouse
Willie Dante
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Paul Martin
This Is Your Life
Self
Lux Video Theatre
Self - Intermission Guest
The Emmy Awards
Self
Paper Moon
Crew
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The DuPont Show of the Week
Self
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
The Bad and the Beautiful
James Lee Bartlow
Television: The First Fifty Years
Self (archive footage)
The Conqueror
Directing
Murder, My Sweet
Philip Marlowe
The Enemy Below
Directing
Pitfall
John Forbes
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
Station West
Lt. John Martin Haven
Wonder Bar
Tommy
Johnny O'Clock
Johnny O'Clock
Breakdowns of 1938
Elly Jordan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
True to Life
Link Ferris
Cornered
Laurence Gerard
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lysander
Susan Slept Here
Mark Christopher
The Hunters
Directing
That's Dancing!
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
Breakdowns of 1937
Self
Cry Danger
Rocky Mulloy
Hard to Get
Bill Davis
Gold Diggers of 1937
Rosmer Peck
Gold Diggers of 1933
Brad
Hollywood Hotel
Ronnie Bowers
On the Avenue
Gary Blake
You Can't Run Away from It
Directing
Mrs. Mike
Sgt. Mike Flannigan
The Singing Marine
Bob Brent
Christmas in July
Jimmy McDonald
42nd Street
Billy Lawler
Naughty But Nice
Professor Donald Hardwick
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The Reformer and the Redhead
Andrew Hale
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Self (archive footage)
Star Spangled Rhythm
Dick Powell
Going Places
Peter Mason
Who Killed Julie Greer?
Host / Inspector Amos Burke
Footlight Parade
Scotty Blair
Varsity Show
Charles 'Chuck' Daly
Blessed Event
Bunny Harmon
Riding High
Steve Baird
The Tall Target
John Kennedy
Page Miss Glory
Bingo Nelson
Right Cross
Rick Garvey
Split Second
Directing
Meet the People
William 'Swanee' Swanson
Big City Blues
Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
College Coach
Phil "Sarge" Sargeant
Broadway Gondolier
Richard 'Dick' Purcell, aka Ricardo Purcelli
It Happened Tomorrow
Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens
I Want a Divorce
Alan MacNally
In the Navy
Thomas Halstead
Ghostbreakers
Production
Stage Struck
George Randall
The Losers
Production
To the Ends of the Earth
Commissioner Michael Barrows
A Dream Comes True
Himself (uncredited)
Dames
Jimmy Higgens
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
Happy Go Lucky
Pete Hamilton
Twenty Million Sweethearts
Buddy Clayton
Flirtation Walk
Dick "Canary" Dorcy
Hollywood Hobbies
Self (uncredited)
The King's Vacation
John Kent
Colleen
Donald Ames
Blow-Ups of 1947
Self
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Self (archive footage)
Gold Diggers of 1935
Dick Curtis
You Never Can Tell
Rex Shepherd
Hollywood Newsreel
Himself
Things You Never See on the Screen
Self
Hearts Divided
Jerome Bonaparte
Convention City
Jerry Ford
One Must Die
Cowboy from Brooklyn
Elly Jordan
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
Self (archive footage)
Ricochet
Self - Host
Shipmates Forever
Richard 'Dick' Melville III
Model Wife
Frederick "Fred" Chambers
Happiness Ahead
Bob Lane
Thanks a Million
Eric Land
Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Self (archive footage)
And She Learned About Dames
Himself
Rogues' Regiment
Whit Corbett
Just Around the Corner
Jerry
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Self
Too Busy to Work
Dan Hardy
Woman on the Run
Directing
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 5"
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"
Three Cheers for the Girls
Singer (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Road Is Open Again
The Songwriter
Studio Highlights
Self (archive footage)
One And One Is One
Himself
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 3, Normie"