Tyrone Power filmography
Tyrone Power (May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958) appeared in a total of 48 feature-length motion pictures.
Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | Tom Brown of Culver | John | William Wyler | Billed as Tyrone Power Jr. |
| 1934 | Flirtation Walk | Cadet | Frank Borzage | Uncredited |
| 1936 | Girls' Dormitory | Count Vallais | Irving Cummings | Billed as Tyrone Power Jr. |
| Ladies in Love | Count Karl Lanyi | Edwin H. Griffith | Billed as Tyrone Power Jr. | |
| Lloyd's of London | Jonathan Blake | Henry King | ||
| 1937 | Love Is News | Steve Layton | Tay Garnett | Remade as That Wonderful Urge (1948). |
| Café Metropole | Alexis | Edwin H. Griffith | ||
| Thin Ice | Prince Rudolph | Sidney Lansfield | Aka Lovely to Look At (UK). | |
| Second Honeymoon | Raoul McLish | Walter Lang | ||
| 1938 | In Old Chicago | Dion O'Leary | Henry King | |
| Alexander's Ragtime Band | Roger "Alexander" Grant | |||
| Marie Antoinette | Count Axel de Fersen | W.S. Van Dyke | Originally released in sepiatone. | |
| Suez | Ferdinand de Lesseps | Allan Dwan | Originally released in sepiatone. | |
| 1939 | Jesse James | Jesse James | Henry King | Filmed in Technicolor. |
| Rose of Washington Square[1] | Barton DeWitt Clinton | Gregory Ratoff | ||
| Second Fiddle | Jimmy Sutton | Sidney Lansfield | Aka Irving Berlin's Second Fiddle. | |
| The Rains Came | Dr. Major Rama Safti | Clarence Brown | Originally released in sepiatone. | |
| Day-Time Wife | Ken Norton | Gregory Ratoff | ||
| 1940 | Johnny Apollo | Bob Cain (Johnny Apollo) | Henry Hathaway | |
| Brigham Young | Jonathan Kent | Aka Brigham Young – Frontiersman. Originally released in sepiatone. | ||
| The Mark of Zorro | Don Diego Vega / Zorro | Rouben Mamoulian | ||
| 1941 | Blood and Sand | Juan Gallardo | Filmed in Technicolor | |
| A Yank in the R.A.F. | Tim Baker | Henry King | ||
| 1942 | Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | Benjamin Blake | John Cromwell | Originally released with sepiatone sequences. |
| This Above All | Clive Briggs | Anatole Litvak | ||
| The Black Swan | Jamie Waring | Henry King | Filmed in Technicolor. | |
| 1943 | Crash Dive | Lt. Ward Stewart | Archie Mayo | Filmed in Technicolor. Power's last film before serving in the Marines during World War II. |
| 1946 | The Razor's Edge | Larry Darrell | Edmund Goulding | |
| 1947 | Nightmare Alley | Stanton Carlisle | Filmed after but released before Captain From Castile. | |
| Captain from Castile | Pedro De Vargas | Henry King | Filmed in Technicolor. | |
| 1948 | The Luck of the Irish | Stephen Fitzgerald | Henry Koster | Originally released with green tinted sequences. |
| That Wonderful Urge | Thomas Jefferson Tyler | Robert B. Sinclair | Remake of Love is News (1937). | |
| 1949 | Prince of Foxes | Andrea Orsini | Henry King | |
| 1950 | What's My Line | Himself/Mystery Guest | N/A | First television appearance. |
| The Black Rose | Walter of Gurnie | Henry Hathaway | ||
| American Guerrilla in the Philippines | Ensign Chuck Palmer | Fritz Lang | Aka I Shall Return (UK). Filmed in Technicolor. | |
| 1951 | Rawhide | Tom Owens | Henry Hathaway | Aka Desperate Siege. |
| The House in the Square | Peter Standish | Roy Ward Baker | Aka I'll Never Forget You (US). Filmed in Technicolor. | |
| 1952 | Diplomatic Courier | Mike Kells | Henry Hathaway | |
| Pony Soldier | Constable Duncan MacDonald | Joseph M. Newman | Aka MacDonald of the Canadian Mounties (UK). Filmed in Technicolor. | |
| 1953 | The Mississippi Gambler | Mark Fallon | Rudolph Maté | Filmed in Technicolor. |
| King of the Khyber Rifles | Capt. Alan King | Henry King | Filmed in CinemaScope and color by Deluxe. | |
| 1955 | The Long Gray Line | Martin "Marty" Maher | John Ford | Filmed in CinemaScope and Technicolor. |
| Untamed | Paul Van Riebeck | Henry King | Filmed in CinemaScope and color by Deluxe. | |
| 1956 | The Eddy Duchin Story | Eddy Duchin | George Sidney | Filmed in CinemaScope and Technicolor. |
| 1957 | Seven Waves Away | Alec Holmes | Richard Sale | Aka Abandon Ship! |
| The Sun Also Rises | Jacob "Jake" Barnes | Henry King | Filmed in CinemaScope and color by Deluxe. | |
| The Rising of the Moon | Himself | John Ford | Three short stories introduced by Power. | |
| Witness for the Prosecution | Leonard Vole | Billy Wilder | Power's last completed film. | |
| 1959 | Solomon and Sheba | Solomon | King Vidor | Power died during the production and was replaced by Yul Brynner. |
Box office ranking
[edit]- 1938 - 10th
- 1939 - 2nd
- 1940 - 5th
- 1941 - 11th
- 1942 - 13th
- 1943 - 14th, 9th (UK)
- 1947 - 20th
Career Appraisal
[edit]When Tyrone Power left 20th Century Fox in 1952 he said that his favorite movie made at the studio was Nightmare Alley "but the studio did nothing to sell it and it wasn't a success." He said his most popular movies were Alexander's Ragtime Band, Jesse James, The Mark of Zorro and Blood and Sand. His least favorite were Day-Time Wife, Prince of Foxes, Captain from Castile and Rose of Washington Square.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Great Movie Musicals on DVD - A Classic Movie Fan's Guide by John Howard Reid - Google search with book preview
- ↑ Tyrone Power Ends 16 Years With One Studio; Plans Tour The Washington Post (1923-1954) [Washington, D.C] 26 June 1952: 30.
Bibliography
[edit]- Belafonte, Denis, and Alvin H. Marill. The Films of Tyrone Power. New York, NY. Citadel Press, 1979.
