Biography: life and films
Dick Powell was an American actor and producer whose birth name was Richard Ewing Powell. He was born in Mountain View, Arkansas, USA on 14th November 1904 and died in West Los Angeles, California, USA on 2nd January 1963, aged 58.His best films as an actor include Busby Berkeley's comedy Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935), Preston Sturges's Christmas in July (1940), Edward Dmytryk's crime-thriller Murder, My Sweet (1944), Cornered (1945) and Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and whose best work as a film director include Split Second (1953), The Enemy Below (1957) and The Hunters (1958).
Dick Powell appeared in 58 films and directed 5 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Ray Enright (6 films), Lloyd Bacon (6), Roy Del Ruth (3), Mervyn LeRoy (3), George Marshall (3), Frank Borzage (3), Busby Berkeley (3) and Edward Dmytryk (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (35 films), comedy-romance (19), drama (15), Thriller (8), romance (5), crime-thriller (5), War (3), Fantasy (3), history (2) and comedy-drama (2).
Our average rating for Dick Powell over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director
The Cloud Rider (1925) [a]
Blessed Event (1932) [a]
Too Busy to Work (1932) [a]
College Coach (1933) [a]
Convention City (1933) [a]
Footlight Parade (1933) [a]
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) [a]
The King's Vacation (1933) [a]
Dames (1934) [a]
Flirtation Walk (1934) [a]
Happiness Ahead (1934) [a]
Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934) [a]
Wonder Bar (1934) [a]
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) [a]
Broadway Gondolier (1935) [a]
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) [a]
Page Miss Glory (1935) [a]
Shipmates Forever (1935) [a]
Thanks a Million (1935) [a]
Colleen (1936) [a]
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936) [a]
Hearts Divided (1936) [a]
Stage Struck (1936) [a]
Hollywood Hotel (1937) [a]
On the Avenue (1937) [a]
The Singing Marine (1937) [a]
Varsity Show (1937) [a]
Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938) [a]
Going Places (1938) [a]
Hard to Get (1938) [a]
Naughty But Nice (1939) [a]
I Want a Divorce (1940) [a]
In the Navy (1941) [a]
Model Wife (1941) [a]
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) [a]
Happy Go Lucky (1943) [a]
Riding High (1943) [a]
True to Life (1943) [a]
It Happened Tomorrow (1944) [a]
Meet the People (1944) [a]
Cornered (1945) [a]
Pitfall (1948) [a]
Rogues' Regiment (1948) [a]
Station West (1948) [a]
To the Ends of the Earth (1948) [a]
Mrs. Mike (1949) [a]
Right Cross (1950) [a]
The Reformer and the Redhead (1950) [a]
Cry Danger (1951) [a]
The Tall Target (1951) [a]
You Never Can Tell (1951) [a]
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) [a]
Susan Slept Here (1954) [a]
The Conqueror (1956) [d]
You Can't Run Away from It (1956) [d]
The Enemy Below (1957) [d]
The Hunters (1958) [d]
It's Showtime (1976) [a]
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