Tyrone Power

American actor (1914-1958)

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Lived 1914–1958, aged 44United States

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Era
1914–1958
Aged 44
Known for
Witness for the Prosec…
1957

Summary

Updated 2026-06-10

He was the face Hollywood put on every swashbuckler and romantic lead it could script — dark-eyed, razor-jawed, the kind of matinee idol who could fence his way through The Mark of Zorro and still anchor Nightmare Alley, the noir he loved most.

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Tyrone Edmund Power III was born May 5, 1914, and by the 1930s had become the studio system's go-to for costume adventure and romance — Jesse James, Marie Antoinette, Blood and Sand, The Black Swan, Prince of Foxes, Captain from Castile. Though his looks made him a matinee fixture in the '30s and early '40s, he worked across drama and light comedy, and his own favorite among his dozens of films was Nightmare Alley. By the 1950s he'd begun pulling back from the screen to spend more time onstage, earning his strongest notices in John Brown's Body and Mister Roberts. He died of a heart attack in…

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