William Powell
William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was an American actor. A major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the Thin Man series based on the Nick and Nora Charles characters created by Dashiell Hammett. Powell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times: for The Thin Man (1934), My Man Godfrey (1936), and Life with Father (1947). After high school, he left home for New York and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of 18. In 1912, Powell graduated from the AADA, and worked in some vaudeville and stock companies. After several successful experiences on the Broadway stage, he began his Hollywood career in 1922, playing a small role as an evil henchman of Professor Moriarty in a production of Sherlock Holmes with John Barrymore. His most memorable role in silent movies was as a bitter film director opposite Emil Jannings' Academy Award-winning performance as a fallen general in The Last Command (1928). This success, along with Powell's pleasant speaking voice, led to his first starring role as amateur detective Philo Vance in the "talkie" The Canary Murder Case (1929). Powell's most famous role was that of Nick Charles in six Thin Man films, beginning with The Thin Man in 1934, based upon Dashiell Hammett's novel. The role provided a perfect opportunity for Powell, with his resonant speaking voice, to showcase his sophisticated charm and witty sense of humor, and he received his first Academy Award nomination for The Thin Man. Myrna Loy played his wife, Nora, in each of the Thin Man films. Their on-screen partnership, beginning alongside Clark Gable in 1934 with Manhattan Melodrama, was one of Hollywood's most prolific, and they appeared in 14 films together. Loy and Powell starred in the Best Picture of 1936, The Great Ziegfeld, with Powell in the title role and Loy as Ziegfeld's wife Billie Burke. That same year, he also received his second Academy Award nomination, for the comedy My Man Godfrey. In 1935, he starred with Jean Harlow in Reckless. A serious romance developed between them, and in 1936, they were reunited on screen and with Loy and Spencer Tracy in the screwball comedy Libeled Lady. However, Harlow surprisingly and quickly became ill, and died from uremia at the age of 26 in June 1937 before they could marry. His distress over her death, as well as a cancer diagnosis of his own, caused him to accept fewer acting roles. Powell's career slowed considerably in the 1940s, although he received his third Academy Award nomination in 1947 for his role as the cantankerous Clarence Day, Sr., in Life with Father. His last film was 1955's Mister Roberts. Powell died in Palm Springs, California, on March 5, 1984, at the age of 91 from heart failure, nearly 30 years after his retirement. He is buried at the Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California, near his third wife Diana Lewis, and his only child, his son William David Powell.
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The Love Story of Jean Harlow and William Powell
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017 · Self - Actor (archive footage)
Discovering Jean Harlow
2015 · archive footage
William Powell: A True Gentleman
2005
Alias Nick and Nora
2005
Jean Harlow: Platinum Bombshell
1996 · Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Self (archive footage)
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990 · (archive footage)
Two Tragic Blondes - Marilyn Monroe And Jean Harlow
1989 · Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987 · Self (archive footage)
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986 · Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage)
It's Showtime
1976 · Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Self (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Nick Charles (archive footage)
Mister Roberts
1955 · Doc
How to Marry a Millionaire
1953 · J.D. Hanley
The Girl Who Had Everything
1953 · Steve Latimer
The Treasure of Lost Canyon
1952 · Homer 'Doc' Brown
It's a Big Country
1951 · Professor
Dancing in the Dark
1949 · Emery Slade
Take One False Step
1949 · Andrew Gentling
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
1948 · Arthur Peabody
The Senator Was Indiscreet
1947 · Senator Melvin G. Ashton
Life with Father
1947 · Clarence Day Sr.
Song of the Thin Man
1947 · Nick Charles
The Hoodlum Saint
1946 · Terence Ellerton 'Terry' O'Neill
Ziegfeld Follies
1945 · Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
The Great Morgan
1945 · William Powell (voice) (uncredited)
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944 · Nick Charles
The Heavenly Body
1944 · William S. Whitley
Twenty Years After
1944 · (archive footage)
The Youngest Profession
1943 · William Powell
Crossroads
1942 · David Talbot aka Jean Pelletier
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941 · Nick Charles
Love Crazy
1941 · Steve Ireland
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940 · Self
I Love You Again
1940 · Larry Wilson aka George Carey
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940 · Self
Another Thin Man
1939 · Nick Charles
From the Ends of the Earth
1939 · Self
The Baroness and the Butler
1938 · Johann Porok
Double Wedding
1937 · Charles Lodge
The Romance of Celluloid
1937 · Self (archive footage)
The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937 · Baron Stephan Wolensky
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937 · Charles
After the Thin Man
1936 · Nick Charles
Libeled Lady
1936 · Bill Chandler
My Man Godfrey
1936 · Godfrey
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936 · Dr. Lawrence 'Brad' Bradford
The Great Ziegfeld
1936 · Florenz 'Flo' Ziegfeld Jr.
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
1935 · Self
Rendezvous
1935 · Lt. William 'Bill' Gordon / Anson Meridan
Escapade
1935 · Fritz
Reckless
1935 · Ned Riley
Star of Midnight
1935 · Clay Dalzell
Evelyn Prentice
1934 · John Prentice
The Key
1934 · Capt. Bill Tennant
The Thin Man
1934 · Nick Charles
Manhattan Melodrama
1934 · Jim Wade
Fashions of 1934
1934 · Sherwood Nash
The Kennel Murder Case
1933 · Philo Vance
Double Harness
1933 · John Fletcher
Private Detective 62
1933 · Donald Free
Lawyer Man
1932 · Anton "Tony" Adam
One Way Passage
1932 · Dan Hardesty
Jewel Robbery
1932 · The Robber
High Pressure
1932 · Gar Evans
The Road to Singapore
1931 · Hugh Dawltry
Ladies' Man
1931 · Jamie Darricott
Man of the World
1931 · Michael Trevor
The Voice of Hollywood
1930
For the Defense
1930 · William Foster
Shadow of the Law
1930 · Jim Montgomery aka John Nelson
Paramount on Parade
1930 · Philo Vance
The Benson Murder Case
1930 · Philo Vance
Street of Chance
1930 · John D. Marsden / 'Natural' Davis
Behind the Make-Up
1930 · Gardoni
Pointed Heels
1929 · Robert Courtland
Charming Sinners
1929 · Karl Kraley
The Greene Murder Case
1929 · Philo Vance
The Four Feathers
1929 · Capt. William Trench
The Canary Murder Case
1929 · Philo Vance
Interference
1929 · Philip Voaze
Forgotten Faces
1928 · Froggy
The Vanishing Pioneer
1928 · John Murdock
The Drag Net
1928 · Dapper Frank Trent
Partners in Crime
1928 · Smith
Feel My Pulse
1928 · Her Nemesis
Beau Sabreur
1928 · Becque
The Last Command
1928 · Lev Andreyev
She's a Sheik
1927 · Kada
Nevada
1927 · Clan Dillon
Paid to Love
1927 · Prince Eric
Time to Love
1927 · Prince Alado
Special Delivery
1927 · Harold Jones
Senorita
1927 · Manuel Oliveros
Love's Greatest Mistake
1927 · Don Kendall
New York
1927 · Trent Regan
The Great Gatsby
1926 · George Wilson
Tin Gods
1926 · Tony Santelli
Beau Geste
1926 · Boldini
Aloma of the South Seas
1926 · Van Templeton
The Runaway
1926 · Jack Harrison
Desert Gold
1926 · Snake Landree
Sea Horses
1926 · Lorenzo Salvia
White Mice
1926 · Roddy Forrester
The Beautiful City
1925 · Nick Di Silva
My Lady's Lips
1925 · Scott Seddon
Faint Perfume
1925 · Barnaby Powers
Too Many Kisses
1925 · Don Julio
Romola
1924 · Tito Melema
Dangerous Money
1924 · Prince Arnoldo da Pescia
Under the Red Robe
1923 · Duke of Orleans
The Bright Shawl
1923 · Gaspar De Vaca
Outcast
1922 · DeValle
When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922 · Francis I
Sherlock Holmes
1922 · Forman Wells
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