All About Dick Powell: Measurements, Wedding, Net Worth, Ethnicity

Known for movies

Short Info

Died	January 2, 1963, West Los Angeles, California, United States
Spouse	June Allyson, Joan Blondell, Mildred Maund
Mark	Affable "juvenile leads" or "boy heroes", which he played into his 40s
Fact	He was a lifelong member of the Republican party.
Payments	Earned $30,000 from In the Navy (1941)

Dick Powell was an American actor, singer, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 100 films and was a major star at Warner Bros. during the 1930s and 1940s. He played the leading man in films such as 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, and Dames, and was the first actor to play Philip Marlowe in the film version of The Big Sleep. Powell was born in Mountain View, Arkansas, the son of a single mother. His father, a farmer, died when Powell was a child. Powell’s mother moved the family to Memphis, Tennessee, where Powell attended high school.

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Powell began his career as a vaudeville performer, touring the country with his family. He made his film debut in 1929 in the short film RKO Pathe News No. 49. Powell’s big break came in 1933 when he was cast as the leading man in the Warner Bros. musical 42nd Street. The film was a huge hit and made Powell a star.

Powell went on to appear in a string of successful musicals, including Footlight Parade, Dames, and Gold Diggers of 1933. He also starred in the first film version of The Big Sleep (1946), playing private detective Philip Marlowe. Powell’s career began to decline in the 1950s, and he retired from acting in 1957. He died of cancer in 1963 at the age of 58.

General Info

Full Name	Dick Powell
Died	January 2, 1963, West Los Angeles, California, United States
Height	1.8 m
Profession	Actor, Singer, Film director, Film producer, Television producer
Nationality	American

Family

Spouse	June Allyson, Joan Blondell, Mildred Maund
Children	Pamela Allyson Powell, Richard Keith Powell Jr., Norman Powell, Ellen Powell
Parents	Ewing Powell, Sallie Rowena Thompson
Siblings	Luther Powell, Howard Smith Powell

Accomplishments

Awards	Grammy Hall of Fame
Movies	Murder, My Sweet, Pitfall, Dames, Footlight Parade, 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Susan Slept Here, The Conqueror, Johnny O'Clock, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Enemy Below, Cornered, Christmas in July, Gold Diggers of 1935, Hollywood Hotel, Cry Danger, The Tall Target, A Midsummer Night's Dre...
TV Shows	The Dick Powell Show, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, Four Star Playhouse

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0694090

Marks

#	Marks / Signs
1	Affable "juvenile leads" or "boy heroes", which he played into his 40s

Salary

Title	Salary
In the Navy (1941)	$30,000

Quotes

#	Quote
1	[observation, 1936] I'm not a kid anymore but I'm still playing boy scouts.
2	The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

Facts

#	Fact
1	He was of Welsh descent.
2	He was a lifelong member of the Republican party.
3	He was awarded 3 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard, for Television at 6745 Hollywood Boulevard, and for Radio at 1560 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
4	Featured in "Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir" by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry (McFarland, 2003).
5	In The Day of the Locust (1975), Powell was portrayed by his son Dick Powell Jr..
6	In the 1940s he sold his 55-foot yacht, Santana, to lifelong sailing enthusiast Humphrey Bogart. The vessel subsequently achieved celebrity status as "Bogie's Boat" due to his numerous seafaring expeditions, and Bogart even named his production company, Santana Productions, after it.
7	His estate was reportedly valued at $10,000,000 at the time of his death.
8	As of early 2007, his birthplace in the small town of Mountain View, AR still stands on the north side of Main Street. It's a modest circa 1895 house (sadly in a state of benign neglect) with a wraparound porch with a small historical marker and a badly weathered display out in front that details his 1936 engagement to Joan Blondell, marriage to June Allyson and more recent death of his brother.
9	His daughter Pamela Powell was adopted during his marriage to June Allyson.
10	He was yet another casualty of the 1956 film The Conqueror (1956) filmed near a nuclear test site in Utah. Many of the people involved with the film, including Powell, who directed, eventually died of cancer, either caused by, or exacerbated by, working on it. Others included actors John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Ted de Corsia, and Agnes Moorehead.
11	His brother Luther Powell was born October 30, 1906, and died August 15, 1996. His brother Howard Smith Powell was born October 13, 1899, and died in January, 1986.
12	His parents were Ewing and Sallie Rowena Thompson Powell.
13	Father of Dick Powell Jr. from his marriage to June Allyson.
14	Died on the same day as Jack Carson. They had different forms of cancer.
15	Father of Ellen Powell, from his marriage to Joan Blondell. He adopted Joan's son, Norman S. Powell in February 1938.
16	Interned at Desert Memorial Park, Palm Springs, California.
17	He was a vocalist with Charlie Davis's orchestra before entering film.

Pictures

All pictures

Movies

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Ensign O'Toole	1962-1963	TV Series	Chief Richard E. Powell
Car 54, Where Are You?	1962	TV Series	Dick Powell
The Law and Mr. Jones	1961	TV Series	Colonel Drayton
Zane Grey Theater	1956-1960	TV Series	Host / Marshal Jess Brackett / Sam Gracie
The DuPont Show with June Allyson	1959-1960	TV Series	Dr. Timothy McVey / Paul Martin
Mr. Adams and Eve	1958	TV Series
Four Star Playhouse	1952-1956	TV Series	Willie Dante / Dan / Dan Matson / ...
The Best in Mystery	1956	TV Series	Willie Dante (1956)
Lux Video Theatre	1955	TV Series	Intermission Guest
The Jack Benny Program	1954	TV Series	Dick
Climax!	1954	TV Series	Philip Marlowe
Susan Slept Here	1954		Mark Christopher
The Red Skelton Hour	1954	TV Series	Cameo
The Bad and the Beautiful	1952		James Lee Bartlow
You Never Can Tell	1951		Rex Shepherd
The Tall Target	1951		John Kennedy
Cry Danger	1951		Rocky
Right Cross	1950		Rick Garvey
The Reformer and the Redhead	1950		Andrew Rockton Hale
Mrs. Mike	1949		Sgt. Mike Flannigan
Rogues' Regiment	1948		Whit Corbett
Station West	1948		Haven
Pitfall	1948		John Forbes
To the Ends of the Earth	1948		Commissioner Michael Barrows
Johnny O'Clock	1947		Johnny O'Clock
Cornered	1945		Laurence Gerard
Murder, My Sweet	1944		Philip Marlowe
Meet the People	1944		William 'Swanee' Swanson
It Happened Tomorrow	1944		Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens
True to Life	1943		Link Ferris
Riding High	1943		Steve Baird
Happy Go Lucky	1943		Pete Hamilton
Star Spangled Rhythm	1942		Dick Powell-' Hit the Road to Dreamland' Number
In the Navy	1941		Thomas Halstead
Model Wife	1941		Fred Chambers
Christmas in July	1940		Jimmy MacDonald
I Want a Divorce	1940		Alan MacNally
Naughty But Nice	1939		Professor Donald 'Don' Hardwick
Going Places	1938		Peter Mason
Hard to Get	1938		Bill
Cowboy from Brooklyn	1938		Elly Jordan, aka Wyoming Steve Gibson
Hollywood Hotel	1937		Ronnie Bowers
Varsity Show	1937		Charles 'Chuck' Daly
The Singing Marine	1937		Bob Brent
On the Avenue	1937		Gary Blake
Gold Diggers of 1937	1936		Rosmer Peak
Stage Struck	1936		George Randall
Hearts Divided	1936		Captain Jerome Bonaparte
Colleen	1936		Donald Ames 3rd
Thanks a Million	1935		Eric Land
Shipmates Forever	1935		Richard John 'Dick' Melville III
A Midsummer Night's Dream	1935		Lysander - In Love with Hermia
Page Miss Glory	1935		Bingo Nelson
Broadway Gondolier	1935		Richard 'Dick' Purcell, aka Ricardo Purcelli
Gold Diggers of 1935	1935		Dick Curtis
Flirtation Walk	1934		Dick 'Canary' Dorcy
Happiness Ahead	1934		Bob Lane
Dames	1934		Jimmy
Twenty Million Sweethearts	1934		Buddy Clayton
Wonder Bar	1934		Tommy
The Road Is Open Again	1933	Short	The Songwriter
Convention City	1933		Jerry Ford
College Coach	1933		Phil Sargent
Footlight Parade	1933		Scotty Blair
Sky Symphony	1933	Short	Dick Powell
Gold Diggers of 1933	1933		Brad Roberts
42nd Street	1933		Billy Lawler
The King's Vacation	1933		John Kent
Just Around the Corner	1933	Short	Jerry
Too Busy to Work	1932		Dan Hardy
Big City Blues	1932		Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited)
Blessed Event	1932		Bunny Harmon

Producer

Title	Year	Status
Ghostbreakers	1967	TV Movie executive producer
The Dick Powell Theatre	1961-1963	TV Series executive producer - 53 episodes
The Hunters	1958	producer
The Enemy Below	1957	producer
Chevron Hall of Stars	1956	TV Series producer - 1 episode
You Can't Run Away from It	1956	producer
Four Star Playhouse	1952-1956	TV Series producer - 28 episodes
The Conqueror	1956	producer

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
Michael Feinstein's American Songbook	2013	TV Mini-Series documentary performer - 1 episode
Nativity!	2009	performer: "Hooray for Hollywood"
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me	2009	TV Movie documentary performer: "Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride"
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression	2009	Video documentary performer: "I Only Have Eyes for You", "The Words Are in My Heart" - uncredited
Of Time and the City	2008	Documentary performer: "Hooray for Hollywood"
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure	2008	TV Movie documentary performer: "I Only Have Eyes for You", "The Road Is Open Again" - uncredited
Hollywood Ending	2002	performer: "Hooray for Hollywood" 1937
A.I. Artificial Intelligence	2001	performer: "I Only Have Eyes For You"
The Wedding Planner	2001	performer: "Mr. and Mrs. Is The Name"
In the Gloaming	1997	TV Movie performer: "Young and Healthy"
Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros.	1991	TV Movie documentary performer: "Pettin' in the Park" - uncredited
Pee-wee's Playhouse	1990	TV Series performer - 1 episode
That's Dancing!	1985	Documentary performer: "Dames"
Paper Moon	1973	performer: "Flirtation Walk" 1934 - uncredited
The Love Goddesses	1965	Documentary performer: "Pettin' in the Park" - uncredited
Hollywood and the Stars	1963	TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Jack Benny Program	1954	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Meet the People	1944	performer: "Meet the People" 1940, "In Times Like These" 1944, "It's Smart to Be People" 1944
True to Life	1943	performer: "The Old Music Master", "There She Was"
Three Cheers for the Girls	1943	Short performer: "The Song of the Marines" - uncredited
Happy Go Lucky	1943	performer: "Sing a Tropical Song, "Happy Go Lucky"
Star Spangled Rhythm	1942	performer: "Hit the Road to Dreamland"
In the Navy	1941	"Starlight, Starbright" 1941 / performer: "Starlight, Starbright" 1941, "A Sailor's Life for Me" 1941, "We're in the Navy" 1941
Naughty But Nice	1939	performer: "I'm Happy About the Whole Thing" 1939, "In a Moment of Weakness" 1939 - uncredited
Going Places	1938	"Jeepers Creepers" 1938, uncredited / performer: "Say It With a Kiss" 1938, "Oh, What a Horse Was Charlie" 1938, "Mutiny in the Nursery" 1938 - uncredited
Hard to Get	1938	performer: "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" 1938, "There's a Sunny Side to Every Situation" 1938, "Sonny Boy" 1928 - uncredited
Cowboy from Brooklyn	1938	"Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride", "I'll Dream of You Tonight" / performer: "Cowboy from Brooklyn", "Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride", "I've Got a Heartful of Music", "The Last Round-Up Git Along, Little Dogie, Git Along" 1933, "I'll Dream of You Tonight"
For Auld Lang Syne	1938	Documentary short performer: "Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride"
Hollywood Hotel	1937	performer: "I'm Like a Fish out of Water" 1937, "Let That Be a Lesson to You" 1937, "I've Hitched My Wagon to a Star" 1937, "Sing, You Son of a Gun" 1937 - uncredited
Varsity Show	1937	performer: "We're Working Our Way Through College" 1937, "You've Got Something There" 1937 - uncredited
The Singing Marine	1937	performer: "The Song of the Marines" 1937, "U.S. Marine Corps Hymn", "The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed" 1937, "'Cause My Baby Says It's So" 1937, "You Can't Run Away from Love Tonight" 1937, "Night Over Shanghai" 1937 - uncredited
On the Avenue	1937	"Slumming on Park Avenue" 1937, uncredited / performer: "The Girl on the Police Gazette" 1937, "You're Laughing at Me" 1937, "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" 1937 - uncredited
Gold Diggers of 1937	1936	performer: "With Plenty of Money and You" 1936, "Life Insurance Song" 1936 uncredited, "Speaking of the Weather" 1936, "Let's Put Our Heads Together" 1936, "All's Fair in Love and War" 1936
Stage Struck	1936	performer: "Fancy Meeting You" 1936, "In Your Own Quiet Way" 1936 - uncredited
Hearts Divided	1936	performer: "My Kingdom for a Kiss" 1936, "Two Hearts Divided" 1936 - uncredited
Colleen	1936	lyrics: "You Gotta Know How to Dance" 1936 - uncredited / performer: "An Evening with You" 1936, "I Don't Have to Dream Again" 1936, "Summer Night" 1935, "You Gotta Know How to Dance" 1936 - uncredited
Thanks a Million	1935	"Square Deal Party" 1935, uncredited / performer: "Thanks a Million" 1935, "Sittin' on a Hilltop" 1935, "Pocketful of Sunshine" 1935
Shipmates Forever	1935	performer: "Don't Give Up the Ship", "I'd Love to Take Orders from You", "I'd Rather Listen to Your Eyes", "Abdulla Bulbul Amir" - uncredited
A Midsummer Night's Dream	1935	music: "Spring Song" 1841 - uncredited / performer: "Scottish Symphony: Final Movement" 1842, "Spring Song" 1841 - uncredited
Page Miss Glory	1935	performer: "Page Miss Glory" 1935 - uncredited
Broadway Gondolier	1935	"Flagenheim's Odorless Cheese" 1935, "Lulu's Back in Town" 1935, "The Pig and the Cow and the Dog and Cat" 1935, "The Rose in Her Hair" 1935, uncredited / performer: "Lonely Gondolier" 1935, "Lulu's Back in Town" 1935, "Outside of You" 1935, "The Rose in Her Hair" 1935, "Rigoletto" 1851 - uncredited
Gold Diggers of 1935	1935	performer: "I'm Goin' Shoppin' with You" 1935, "The Words Are in My Heart" 1935 - uncredited
And She Learned About Dames	1934	Short performer: "I Only Have Eyes for You" - uncredited
Flirtation Walk	1934	performer: "Flirtation Walk" 1934, "Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name" 1934, "No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache" 1934, "Aloha Oe" 1878 - uncredited
Happiness Ahead	1934	performer: "Beauty Must Be Loved" 1934, "Happiness Ahead" 1934, "Pop! Goes Your Heart" 1934, "All on Account of a Strawberry Sundae" 1934, "Massaging Window Panes" 1934 - uncredited
Dames	1934	"I Only Have Eyes for You" 1934, uncredited / performer: "Dames" 1934, "I Only Have Eyes for You" 1934, "When You Were a Smile on Your Mother's Lips and a Twinkle in Your Daddy's Eye" 1934, "Try to See It My Way" 1934 - uncredited
Twenty Million Sweethearts	1934	"I'll String Along with You" 1934, "Out for No Good" 1934, uncredited / performer: "Fair and Warmer" 1934, "I'll String Along with You" 1934, "The Flying Trapeze" 1868 - uncredited
Wonder Bar	1934	performer: "Don't Say Good-Night" 1934, "Why Do I Dream Those Dreams?" 1934, "Wonder Bar" 1934 - uncredited
The Road Is Open Again	1933	Short performer: "The Road Is Open Again" - uncredited
College Coach	1933	performer: "Lonely Lane" 1933 - uncredited
Footlight Parade	1933	performer: "By a Waterfall" 1933, "Ah! The Moon Is Here" 1933, "You're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline" 1896, "Honeymoon Hotel" 1933 - uncredited
Gold Diggers of 1933	1933	performer: "Shadow Waltz" 1933, "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song" 1933, "Pettin' in the Park" 1933 - uncredited
42nd Street	1933	performer: "Forty-Second Street" 1932, "It Must Be June" 1932, "Young and Healthy" 1932 - uncredited
Blessed Event	1932	performer: "How Can You Say No When All the World Is Saying Yes?" 1932, "Shapiro Shoes" 1932, "Too Many Tears" 1932, "I'm Makin' Hay in the Moonlight" 1932 - uncredited

Director

Title	Year	Status
Split Second	1953
Woman on the Run	1959	TV Movie
The Hunters	1958
The Enemy Below	1957
You Can't Run Away from It	1956
The Conqueror	1956

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
Paper Moon	1973	special thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
G.E. True	1963	TV Series	Himself - Host
The Dick Powell Theatre	1961-1963	TV Series	Himself - Host / Maj. Ed Clayborn / Alex Harper / ...
The Jack Paar Tonight Show	1962	TV Series	Himself
The Tonight Show	1962	TV Series	Himself - Actor
What's My Line?	1954-1962	TV Series	Himself - Mystery Guest / Himself - Guest Panelist
The DuPont Show of the Week	1961	TV Series	Himself
Zane Grey Theater	1956-1961	TV Series	Himself - Host / Rebel / Col. Blackburn / ...
The 13th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards	1961	TV Special	Himself - Host
This Is Your Life	1960	TV Series	Himself
The 31st Annual Academy Awards	1959	TV Special	Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
I've Got a Secret	1959	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The All-Star Christmas Show	1958	TV Movie	Himself
The Ed Sullivan Show	1954-1958	TV Series	Himself - Guest Host / Himself
The Juke Box Jury	1956	TV Series	Himself
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall	1956	TV Series	Himself
Lux Video Theatre	1956	TV Series	Himself - Intermission Guest
Person to Person	1955	TV Series documentary	Himself
The 27th Annual Academy Awards	1955	TV Special	Himself - Audience Member
Screen Snapshots 9860: Hollywood Friars Honor George Jessel	1948	Short	Himself - Speaker
Hollywood Hobbies	1939	Short	Himself (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 5	1938	Documentary short	Himself
Breakdowns of 1938	1938	Documentary short	Elly Jordan (Cowboy from Brooklyn outtakes) (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 2	1937	Documentary short	Himself
Breakdowns of 1937	1937	Short	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 11	1936	Documentary short	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 5	1936	Documentary short	Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 3	1935	Documentary short	Himself
A Dream Comes True	1935	Documentary short	Himself (uncredited)
Things You Never See on the Screen	1935	Short	Himself
And She Learned About Dames	1934	Short	Himself (uncredited)
Hollywood Newsreel	1934	Short	Himself (uncredited)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-9	1933	Short	Himself (uncredited)

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Welcome to the Basement	2016	TV Series	Himself
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me	2009	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression	2009	Video documentary	Himself
American Masters	2008	TV Series documentary	Billy Lawler / James 'Jimmy' Higgens
Broadway: The American Musical	2004	TV Mini-Series documentary	Billy Lawler
Great Performances	2003	TV Series	Himself
Television: The First Fifty Years	1999	Video documentary	Himself
Classified X	1998	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Thanks a Million: The Dick Powell Story	1998	TV Movie
The Canadians	1998	TV Series	Himself
20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years	1997	TV Movie documentary	Himself (uncredited)
The Celluloid Closet	1995	Documentary	Standing Beside Al Jolson at Grandstand (uncredited)
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies	1995	TV Movie documentary	actor 'The Bad and the Beautiful' (uncredited)
Biography	1987	TV Series documentary	Himself
Going Hollywood: The '30s	1984	Documentary
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	1983	Documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Inside the Third Reich	1982	TV Movie	Actor in film clip (edited from: Footlight Parade)
Presidential Blooper Reel	1981	Video short	Himself
It's Showtime	1976	Documentary
Brother Can You Spare a Dime	1975	Documentary
The Picture Theatre	1967	TV Movie
Hollywood My Home Town	1965	Documentary	Himself
The Love Goddesses	1965	Documentary	Himself
Hollywood and the Stars	1963-1964	TV Series	Himself
Hollywood: The Great Stars	1963	TV Movie documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Hollywood Without Make-Up	1963	Documentary	Himself
Screen Snapshots: Photoplay Gold Medal Awards	1948	Short	Himself
Musical Memories	1946	Short	Billy Lawler (edited from '42nd Street')
Three Cheers for the Girls	1943	Short	Singer (Marine Hymn) - (film clip) (uncredited)
For Auld Lang Syne	1938	Documentary short	Himself (sings "Ride - Tenderfoot - Ride" from "Cowboy from Brooklyn") (uncredited)
Studio Highlights	1934	Short	Himself

Awards

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Motion Picture	On 8 February 1960. At 6915 Hollywood Blvd.
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Television	On 8 February 1960. At 6745 Hollywood Blvd.
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Radio	On 8 February 1960. At 1560 Vine Street.
1946	Edgar	Edgar Allan Poe Awards	Best Motion Picture	Murder, My Sweet (1944)