Dick Powell
American actor (1904-1963) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 58
Richard Ewing Powell was an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardboiled leading man, starring in projects of a more dramatic nature.
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The Dick Powell ShowSeries, Producer1959
The DuPont Show with June AllysonSeries, Paul Martin1957
Tonight Starring Jack PaarSeries
The Enemy BelowFilm, 1957Director, Producer1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreSeries, Creator1954
Susan Slept HereFilm, Mark Christopher1953
Split SecondFilm, Director1952
Four Star PlayhouseSeries, Willie Dante1951
Cry DangerFilm, Rocky Mulloy1950
Lux Video TheatreSeries1949
The Emmy AwardsSeries1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries
PitfallFilm, 1948John Forbes1945
CorneredFilm, Laurence Gerard1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1942
Star Spangled RhythmFilm, Dick Powell1940
Christmas in JulyFilm, Jimmy MacDonald1939
Naughty but NiceFilm, Professor Donald Hardwick1936
Gold Diggers of 1937Film, Rosmer Peck1934
DamesFilm, Jimmy Higgens1932
Big City BluesFilm, Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)1904Born14 November 1904Known for
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The Bad and the Beautiful 1952
The Enemy Below 1957
Murder, My Sweet 1944
Gold Diggers of 1933 1933
Christmas in July 1940
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Hal B. Wallis Produced Gold Diggers of 1937 and Dames
Jack L. Warner Produced Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Lloyd Bacon Directed 42nd Street and Footlight Parade
Busby Berkeley Directed Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Ray Enright Directed Dames and Twenty Million Sweethearts
Samuel Bischoff Produced Pitfall and Broadway Gondolier- Robert Lord Produced Footlight Parade and Flirtation Walk
Hugh Herbert Also in Footlight Parade and College Coach
Frank Borzage Directed Flirtation Walk and Shipmates Forever
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced 42nd Street and Thanks a Million
Mervyn LeRoy Directed Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Hobart Cavanaugh Also in Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Guy Kibbee Also in Footlight Parade and Wonder Bar
Ruby Keeler Also in Footlight Parade, Dames and 42nd Street
Harry Warren Wrote 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933
Roy Del Ruth Directed Thanks a Million and On the Avenue
Robert Mitchum Dick directed The Enemy Below (1958)
Glenda Farrell Also in Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Richard Egan Dick directed Split Second (1953)
Grant Mitchell Also in Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Sidney Lanfield Directed My Favorite Blonde and Station West- Henry Blanke Produced A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Adrian Scott Produced Murder, My Sweet and Cornered- Ralph Murphy Directed Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
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Filmography 40
147 credits on file
Television 15
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Dick Powell in 1934
Ruby Keeler and Powell in Footlight Parade (1933)
Dick Powell in a trailer for Dames (1934)
Dick Powell and Inez Asher
Guest stars for the premiere episode of The Dick Powell Show, "Who Killed Julie Greer?" Standing, from left: Ronald Reagan, Nick Adams, Lloyd Bridges, Mickey Rooney, Edgar Bergen, Jack Carson, Ralph Bellamy, Kay Thompson, and Dean Jones, seated, from left, Carolyn Jones and Dick Powell.
June Allyson and Dick Powell in 1962Awards
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He was the first actor to portray private detective Philip Marlowe on screen.
