Dick powell biography wikipedia
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| Dick Powell | |
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from the trailer for The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) | |
| Born | Richard Ewing Powell November 14, 1904 (1904-11-14) (age 120) Mountain View, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | January 2, 1963(1963-01-02) (aged 58) West Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, singer, producer, director |
| Years active | 1932–63 |
| Spouse | Mildred Maund (1925-27) Joan Blondell (1936-44) June Allyson (1945-63) |
Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an Americansinger, actor, producer, director and studio boss.
Despite the same last name he was not related to William Powell, Eleanor Powell or Jane Powell.
Biography[]
Born in Mountain View, the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas, Powell attended the former Little Rock College in the state capital, before he started his entertainment career as a singer with the Charlie Davis Orchestra, based in the midwest. He recorded a number of records with Davis and on his own, for the
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Dick Powell
American actor (1904–1963)
For other people named Richard Powell, see Richard Powell (disambiguation).
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Dick Powell in 1962 | |
| Born | Richard Ewing Powell (1904-11-14)November 14, 1904 Mountain View, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | January 2, 1963(1963-01-02) (aged 58) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park |
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| Years active | 1930–1963 |
| Spouses | Mildred Maund (m. 1925; div. 1932)Joan Blondell (m. 1936; div. 1944) |
| Children | 3 |
Richard Ewing Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963)[1] 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
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Richard P. Powell
American writer
Richard Pitts Powell (November 28, 1908 – månad 8, 1999) was an American novelist.
Biography
[edit]Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Powell graduated from Princeton University[1] in 1930[2] then worked at the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger newspaper. After ten years, he joined the advertising agency N. W. Ayer & Son. Following service on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's personal during World War II, he returned to N.W. Ayer, where he rose to vice president of information services in 1952.
In the 1940s, Powell began writing fiction, and his first published books were Inner Sanctum Mysteries, published from 1943 to 1955. bygd the mid-1950s, he was able to devote han själv to writing full time. The Philadelphian (1956), his major publishing debut, spent more than six months on the bestseller list, and was filmed in 1959 as The ung Philadelphians, starring Paul Newman.[3] Two of his other novels (one writ