Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. (May 5, 1914 -
November 15, 1958) was an American film actor who appeared in dozens of films in the 1930s to
1950s, usually as a swashbuckling hero but often as a protagonist with a dark side.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Power, Jr. followed his father Tyrone Power Sr. into acting in
American films. He rapidly became a matinee idol, like Rudolph Valentino before him, whose
fans followed his off-screen activities (including playing polo) as avidly as his films.
Although he was a Catholic, Power divorced his first two wives. His extramarital affairs
contributed to the failure of his marriages. During World War II Power served as an aviator in
the United States Marine Corps.
Tyrone Power died of a heart attack in Madrid, Spain while filming Solomon and Sheba in 1958
(and was replaced in that movie by Yul Brynner). He was interred in the Hollywood Forever
Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
Wives & children
Annabella, married 23 April 1939, divorced 26 January 1948
Linda Christian, married 27 January 1949, divorced 7 August 1956
Romina Francesca, born 1951
Taryn, born 1953
Deborah Ann Montgomery Minardos, married 7 May 1958
Tyrone William IV, born 1959
Films
Tom Brown of Culver (1932) (his film debut in a bit part)
Son of Fury (1932)
Lloyd's of London (1936) (his 1st major role)
Thin Ice (1937)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
In Old Chicago (1938)
Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Second Fiddle (1939)
The Rains Came (1939)
Jesse James (1939)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Johnny Apollo (1940)
Brigham Young (1940)
Blood and Sand (1941)
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
The Black Swan (1942)
Crash Dive (1943)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Captain from Castile (1947)
Prince of Foxes (1949)
The Black Rose (1950)
Rawhide (1951)
Pony Soldier (1952)
The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
King of the Khyber Rifles (1954)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
Abandon Ship (1956)
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) (his last film)
This article is licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire
work (including additions) remains under this license. See
http://www.gnu.org/
copyleft/fdl.html
for details. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Tyrone Power", which you can find
at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tyrone_Power_%281914-1958%29
|