William Powell
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday29 July 1892
Died5 March 1984 (age 91)
Place of birthPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Known credits120
Biography
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 comp…
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
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