Tyrone Power Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Tyrone Power Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Tyrone Edmund Power III (May 5, 1914 â€" November 15, 1958) was an

American actor. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power appeared in dozens

of films, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads. His

better-known films include The Mark of Zorro, Marie Antoinette, Blood

and Sand, The Black Swan, Prince of Foxes, Witness for the

Prosecution, The Black Rose, and Captain from Castile. Power's own

favorite film among those that he starred in was Nightmare

Alley.Though largely a matinee idol in the 1930s and early 1940s and

known for his striking looks, Power starred in films in a number of

genres, from drama to light comedy. In the 1950s he began placing

limits on the number of films he would make in order to devote more

time for theater productions. He received his biggest accolades as a

stage actor in John Brown's Body and Mister Roberts. Power died from a

heart attack at the age of 44.Power was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in

1914, son of Helen Emma "Patia" (née Reaume) and the Irish-ancestry

English-born US stage and screen actor Tyrone Power Sr., often known

by his first name "Fred". Power was descended from a long Irish

theatrical line going back to his great-grandfather, the Irish actor

and comedian Tyrone Power (1795â€"1841). Tyrone Power's sister, Ann

Power, was born in 1915, after the family moved to California. His

mother was Roman Catholic, and her ancestry included the

French-Canadian Reaume family and Germans from Alsace-Lorraine.

Through his paternal great-grandmother, Anne Gilbert, Power was

related to the actor Laurence Olivier; through his paternal

grandmother, stage actress Ethel Lavenu, he was related by marriage to

author Evelyn Waugh; and through his father's first cousin, Norah

Emily Gorman Power, he was related to the theatrical director Sir

(William) Tyrone Guthrie, founder of the Stratford Festival in Canada

and the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Power went to

Cincinnati-area Catholic schools and graduated from Purcell High

School in 1931. Upon his graduation, he opted to join his father to

learn what he could about acting from one of the stage's most

respected actors.
Tyrone Power Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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