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Tyrone Power Sr.

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
39

Gender
Male

Birthday
May 2, 1869 (157 years old)

Place of Birth
London, England, UK

Tyrone Power Sr.

Biography

From Wikipedia

Frederick Tyrone Edmond Power (2 May 1869 – 23 December 1931) was an English stage and screen actor, who acted under the name Tyrone Power.

After an extremely prosperous 30 years of acting on the stage and touring around the world, Power moved into silent films in 1914. Initially playing the leading man in films, he soon switched to playing villains and proved highly successful.

In 1916 Power played the male lead in Where Are My Children?, a serious film about birth control and social issues directed by pioneer woman director Lois Weber and her husband Phillips Smalley. That same year Power appeared in a Selig film called John Needham's Double. When not acting on Broadway, Power appeared in films. Producer William Fox found him a great character part at Fox Studios in Footfalls (1921). Also in 1921 Power appeared in D.W. Griffith's Dream Street in which experimental synchronised sound was used, using the Photokinema sound-on-disc system. In 1924 Power was in the cast of the sumptuous Janice Meredith, a Hearst produced Marion Davies vehicle. In 1925 Power appeared in a film called The Red Kimono, a film as daring as Where Are My Children? had been a decade earlier. The Red Kimono was produced and partly written by Dorothy Davenport, the widow of Wallace Reid. Power finished out the decade and silent era in several A-list silent films.

In 1930, Power had a final great role as the villainous "bull whacker" Red Flack in Raoul Walsh's widescreen epic The Big Trail, which was Power's first and only talkie and provided an unknown John Wayne with his first starring role. Power then prepared to film a sound remake of The Miracle Man, which had been a great silent success in 1919 for Lon Chaney. A few scenes had been shot, but before filming could be completed Power died of a heart attack in the arms of his 17-year-old son at the end of 1931. He was 62. His part of the preacher in The Miracle Man was taken up by fellow veteran actor Hobart Bosworth.

He is now usually referred to as Tyrone Power Sr., to distinguish him from his son, star actor Tyrone Power, who would die at the age of 44, also of a heart attack .

Known For

Acting

1930The Big Trailas Red Flack
1927The Elegyas Servant of Satan
1926Hands Across the Borderas John Drake
1926Out of the Stormas Mr. Lawrence
1926The Test of Donald Nortonas John Corrigal
1926Bride of the Stormas Jacob Kroon
1925Braveheartas Standing Rock
1925The Red Kimonaas Gabrielle's Father
1925He's a Prince!as King
1925Where Was I?as George Stone
1925The Wandereras Jesse
1925School for Wivesas
1924Janice Meredithas Lord Cornwallis
1924Greater Than Marriageas Father (as Tyrone Power)
1924For Another Womanas
1924The Story Without a Nameas Drakma (as Tyrone Power)
1924Trouping with Ellenas Mr. Llewellyn
1924The Lone Wolfas Bannon
1924Damaged Heartsas Sandy
1923The Day of Faithas Michael Anstell
1923The Daring Yearsas James LaMotte (as Tyrone Power)
1923Wife in Name Onlyas Dornham
1923Bright Lights of Broadwayas John Kirk
1923The Truth About Wivesas Howard Hendricks
1923Furyas Captain Leyton
1921Footfallsas Hiram Scudder
1921The Black Panther's Cubas Count Boris Orliff
1921Dream Streetas Street Preacher
1920The Great Shadowas Jim McDonald
1917National Red Cross Pageantas Servia - Final episode
1917The Planteras Ludwig Hertzer
1917Lorelei of the Seaas Paul
1916The Eye of Godas Olaf
1916Where Are My Children?as Richard Walton
1916John Needham's Doubleas Lord John Needham / Joseph Norbury
1916Thou Shalt Not Covetas I, or the Hero
1915Sweet Alyssumas Roanoke Brooks
1915A Texas Steeras Maverick Brander
1914Aristocracyas Jefferson Stockton

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