Cast
Dick Powell
1904 – 1963
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1940–1952
- Schools and movements
- Classical Hollywood
Directors worked with
Biography
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. He was the first actor to portray private detective Philip Marlowe on screen.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Awards and honours
National / local
- Trustees Award 1963
- Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame 1996
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
3 films on this site
- Christmas in July 1940 · Preston Sturges · IMDb 7.3 · Cast
- Murder, My Sweet 1944 · Edward Dmytryk · IMDb 7.5 · Cast
- The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 · Vincente Minnelli · IMDb 7.7 · Cast