Tyrone Power
Tyrone Edmund Power III. (Born May 5, 1914 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † November 15, 1958 in Madrid , Spain ) was an American film and stage actor. At the end of the 1930s, he became a Hollywood star , primarily through his leading roles in adventure films such as In the Sign of Zorro and The Pirate . The last film role before his untimely death from a heart attack had power in Billy Wilder's court drama Witness for the Prosecution .
life and career
Tyrone Power came from an old family of actors. His great-grandfather, Tyrone Power I. , was a well-known actor, his grandfather, Harold Power, was a well-known concert pianist. His father, Tyrone Power II (1869-1931), was a well-known stage actor who also appeared occasionally in films. Tyrone Power came to Hollywood through his father , where he rose to star through signals to London in 1936 . It was also his first film with George Sanders , with which he would make four more films.
Because of his dazzling looks, Tyrone Power remained committed to the role of lover and hero in westerns and adventure films such as Night Over India , The Sign of Zorro and Jesse James, Man Without a Law for many years . One of his most famous roles was King of the Toreros , who starred him as a bullfighter alongside Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn . With Anthony Quinn, Tyrone Power also directed The Pirate , in which George Sanders was again involved. Tyrone Power suffered from being fixated on the image of the personable, upright hero. In the years before World War II , Tyrone Power did not have the opportunity to prove his acting skills. In August 1942, Power enrolled in the United States Marine Corps . He served in the Bootcamp Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego and later fought in the Pacific War. After returning to Hollywood from World War II, he again had the opportunity to prove his skills as an actor. Tyrone Power starred in On the Razor's Edge , a film adaptation of William Somerset Maugham 's novel of the same name. Then Tyrone Power played an unsympathetic carnival entertainer in the drama The Charlatan , one of his best roles. Since neither The Razor's Edge nor Nightmare Alley were popular with the public, Tyrone Power had to play the role of the popular figure again.
He appeared in the historical adventure film Prince of Foxes , in which Orson Welles also played the role of Cesare Borgia . Tyrone Power then directed The Black Rose with Orson Welles . Tyrone Power was able to prove his acting skills on the theater stage in the early 1950s. He appeared in the UK comedy Mister Roberts , starring alongside Roger Moore . Power played the title role, an American administrative officer in World War II who messes with his petty captain because he wants to be transferred to the front. When the play was made into a film in 1955, Henry Fonda played the role of Mister Roberts.
On the big screen, Tyrone Power wasn't able to show his talent again until the late 1950s after a series of westerns and adventure films. In Between Madrid and Paris , a film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel Fiesta , Power starred alongside Ava Gardner and Errol Flynn . Then Tyrone Power played alongside Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich the defendant in the Agatha Christie film adaptation of the prosecution witness . It became the last film Tyrone Power could finish. In his last film, Tyrone Power took on the role of King Solomon in the Bible adaptation Solomon and the Queen of Sheba . During a fencing scene with film partner George Sanders, he suffered a heart attack and died on the set. The scenes with Tyrone Power were then shot from scratch with Yul Brynner .
Tyrone Power has its star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (6747 Hollywood Blvd.).
Marriages and children
Tyrone Power was married three times. His first marriage was the French actress Annabella in 1939 . She already had a daughter who Power adopted after marriage. Anne Power Werner (born April 5, 1928; † December 25, 2011) was married to the Austrian theater and film actor Oskar Werner from 1954 to 1968 . Tyrone Power's first marriage ended in divorce in 1948. From 1949 to 1956 he was married to Linda Christian . Her children are Taryn Power , an actress who died in 2020, and the singer Romina Power , who celebrated successes in Italy and Germany with her then husband Al Bano as a pop duo. From his third marriage to Deborah Ann Montgomery Minardos (1931-2006), which he had married in May 1958, the son Tyrone Power Jr. (born January 22, 1959), who starred in the film Cocoon , among other things .
Filmography
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Web links
- Tyrone Power in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography and filmography
- Website about Tyrone Power (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Fdn, http://www.usmccca.org/archives/category/news , News Section, "Help Put Tyrone Power on a Stamp," March 19, 2012
- ^ Anne Power Werner by "Find A Grave"
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| SURNAME | Power, Tyrone |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Power, Tyrone Edmund III. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film and stage actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cincinnati , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1958 |
| Place of death | Madrid , Spain |