Dick Powell

Highest Rated: 100% Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)

Lowest Rated: 43% Susan Slept Here (1954)

Birthday: Nov 14, 1904

Birthplace: Mountain View, Arkansas, USA

Curly-haired actor, director, and producer, Powell worked as a vocalist and instrumentalist for bands (he had several hit records), and occasionally was an M.C. He debuted onscreen in 1932, at first as a crooner in '30s Warner Bros. backstage musicals, often opposite Ruby Keeler. After playing choir-boy-type leads for a decade, he made a surprising switch to dramatic roles in the 1940s, showing special skill as tough heroes or private eyes such as Philip Marlowe. Powell's last big-screen appearance was in Susan Slept Here (1954), in which he once again sang; he went on to appear frequently on TV. His career took another turn in the early '50s when he began producing and directing films; he was also a founder and president of Four Star Television, a prosperous TV production company. His second wife was actress Joan Blondell, with whom he appeared in Model Wife (1941) and I Want a Divorce (1940); his widow is actress June Allyson. In John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust (1975) he was portrayed by his son, Dick Powell, Jr.

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Filmography

Movies

		Credit
No Score Yet	Abbott and Costello in the Movies	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	The Hunters	Director Producer	—	1958
83%	The Enemy Below	Director Producer	—	1957
No Score Yet	You Can't Run Away From It	Director Producer	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Conqueror	Producer Director	—	1956
43%	Susan Slept Here	Mark	—	1954
96%	The Bad and the Beautiful	James Lee Bartlow	—	1953
No Score Yet	Split Second	Director Screenwriter	—	1953
No Score Yet	Four Star Playhouse	Actor	—	1952
No Score Yet	Callaway Went Thataway	Guest	—	1951
No Score Yet	You Never Can Tell	Rex Shepherd	—	1951
No Score Yet	The Tall Target	John Kennedy	—	1951
No Score Yet	Cry Danger	Rocky Mulloy	—	1951
No Score Yet	Right Cross	Rick Garvey	—	1950
No Score Yet	The Reformer and the Redhead	Andrew 'Andy' Rockton Hale	—	1950
No Score Yet	Station West	Haven	—	1948
No Score Yet	To the Ends of the Earth	Commissioner Michael Barrows	—	1948
No Score Yet	Pitfall	John Forbes	—	1948
No Score Yet	Rogues' Regiment	Whit Corbett	—	1948
No Score Yet	Johnny O'Clock	Johnny O'Clock	—	1947
No Score Yet	Cornered	Laurence Gerard	—	1945
94%	Murder, My Sweet	Philip Marlowe	—	1944
60%	It Happened Tomorrow	Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens	—	1944
No Score Yet	Meet the People	William "Swanee" Swanson	—	1944
No Score Yet	Star Spangled Rhythm	Specialty	—	1942
No Score Yet	In the Navy	Thomas Halstead	—	1941
95%	Christmas in July	Jimmy MacDonald	—	1940
No Score Yet	Naughty But Nice	Prof. Donald Hardwick	—	1939
No Score Yet	Going Places	Peter Mason	—	1939
No Score Yet	Cowboy from Brooklyn	Elly Jordan, aka Wyoming Steve Gibson	—	1938
No Score Yet	Hard to Get	Bill Davis	—	1938
No Score Yet	Hollywood Hotel	Henry Bowers	—	1937
No Score Yet	Varsity Show	Charles 'Chuck' Daly	—	1937
No Score Yet	On The Avenue	Gary Blake	—	1937
No Score Yet	Gold Diggers of 1937	Actor	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Singing Marine	Pfc. Robert 'Bob' / 'Arkansas' Brent	—	1937
No Score Yet	Hearts Divided	Captain Jerome Bonaparte	—	1936
No Score Yet	Colleen	Donald Ames 3rd	—	1936
No Score Yet	Thanks a Million	Eric Land	—	1935
91%	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Lysander	—	1935
No Score Yet	Page Miss Glory	Bingo Nelson	—	1935
100%	Gold Diggers of 1935	Rosmer Peck	—	1935
No Score Yet	Shipmates Forever	Richard John Melville III	—	1935
100%	Flirtation Walk	Dick "Canary" Dorcy	—	1934
No Score Yet	Dames	Jimmy Higgens	—	1934
No Score Yet	Wonder Bar	Tommy	—	1934
No Score Yet	Happiness Ahead	Bob Lane	—	1934
No Score Yet	Twenty Million Sweethearts	Buddy Clayton	—	1934
No Score Yet	College Coach (Football Coach )	Philip 'Phil'/'Sarge' Sargeant	—	1933
100%	Footlight Parade	Scotty Blair	—	1933
100%	Gold Diggers of 1933	Brad Roberts/Robert Bradford	—	1933
96%	42nd Street	Billy Lawler	—	1933
No Score Yet	Convention City	Jerry Ford	—	1933
No Score Yet	Too Busy To Work	Actor	—	1932
No Score Yet	Blessed Event	Harmon	—	1932
100%	Street Scene	Officer Harry Murphy	—	1931
No Score Yet	Busby Berkeley - The Busby Berkeley Disc	Actor	—

TV

		Credit
No Score Yet	Zane Grey Theatre 1956-1961	Host	2019 2017 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956

QUOTES FROM Dick Powell CHARACTERS

Philip Marlowe says: She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud

Philip Marlowe says: She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud.