Dick Powell - biography

“The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don’t have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.”

“Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active.  They wind up wanting to leave the city.  That’s more detrimental.”

Dick Powell has appeared in the following films:
Blessed Event (1932)
Big City Blues (1932)
Too Busy to Work (1932)
Just Around the Corner (1933)
The Road Is Open Again (1933)
The King’s Vacation (1933)
42nd Street (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Footlight Parade (1933)
College Coach (1933)
Convention City (1933)
Wonder Bar (1934)
Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
Dames (1934)
Happiness Ahead (1934)
Flirtation Walk (1934)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Page Miss Glory (1935)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)
Shipmates Forever (1935)
Thanks a Million (1935)
Colleen (1936)
Hearts Divided (1936)
Stage Struck (1936)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
On the Avenue (1937)
The Singing Marine (1937)
Varsity Show (1937)
Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)
Hard to Get (1938)
Going Places (1938)
Naughty But Nice (1939)
I Want a Divorce (1940)
Christmas in July (1940)
Model Wife (1941)
In the Navy (1941)
Happy Go Lucky (1943)
Riding High (1943)
True to Life (1943)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Meet the People (1944)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Cornered (1945)
Johnny O’Clock (1947)
To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
Pitfall (1948)
Station West (1948)
Rogues’ Regiment (1948)
Mrs. Mike (1949)
The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
Right Cross (1950)
Cry Danger (1951)
The Tall Target (1951)
You Never Can Tell (1951)
Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Susan Slept Here (1954)


Dick Powell directed the following films:
The Conqueror (1956)
You Can’t Run Away from It (1956)
The Enemy Below (1957)
The Hunters (1958)