Tyrone PowerFilmography

The Sun Also Rises

Actors: Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main concession to Hollywood formula was the casting of star players who were all too old to convincingly portray Hemingway's "Lost Generation" protagonists. Tyrone Power heads Read More

The Rising of the Moon

Actors: Noel Purcell, Cyril Cusack, Jimmy O'Dea, Denis O'Dea, Eileen Crowe

Synopsis: To make the Rising of the Moon, American filmmaker John Ford returned to his Irish roots. An obscure and highly personal film for Ford, it is comprised of three episodes--each offering insight into Irish culture and values. All are introduced by Tyrone Power. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police Read More

Witness for the Prosecution

Actors: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor

Synopsis: Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered by his doctor to give up everything he holds dear-brandy, cigars and especially courtroom cases. Robards' already shaky resolve to follow doctor's orders flies out the window Read More

The Eddy Duchin Story

Actors: Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore, Rex Thompson

Synopsis: Tyrone Power stars in this tear-jerking biography of the beloved but short-lived pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin. Boston-born Eddy Duchin (Tyrone Power) moves to New York City to pursue a career as a pharmacist. However, Eddy is also a skilled piano player, and when he meets pretty socialite Read More

The Long Gray Line

Actors: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis, Ward Bond, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: The life story of West Point athletic director Marty Maher was the inspiration for John Ford's The Long Gray Line. Told in flashback, the film recalls the first days at the Point for Irish immigrant Maher (Tyrone Power), a pugnacious boy who can't seem to fit in with the institution's regimen of Read More

Untamed

Actors: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan, John Justin, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Tyrone Power is a Dutchman, and Susan Hayward is an Irish lass. If you believe that, then the rest of Untamed will go down a lot easier. Power is a Boer calvary commander attempting to bring peace to his South African homeland. He has an affair with Hayward, a married woman whose husband is killed Read More

King of the Khyber Rifles

Actors: Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie, John Justin, Guy Rolfe

Synopsis: This remake of John Ford's The Black Watch (29) stars Tyrone Power as British army captain stationed in India in 1857. Shunned by his fellow officers because he is a half caste, Power defies the social structure of the era by falling in love with the daughter (Terry Moore) of his superior Read More

The Mississippi Gambler

Actors: Tyrone Power, Piper Laurie, Julie Adams, John McIntire, William Reynolds, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: 1953's The Mississippi Gambler was the third Universal Studios film to bear this title--though with a different plot each time. Tyrone Power plays an all-around adventurer who cuts quite a swath through antebellum New Orleans. In between scenes of gambling, fist-fighting and swordplay, Power woos Piper Laurie Read More

Diplomatic Courier

Actors: Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Hildegarde Neff, Stephen McNally, Karl Malden

Synopsis: When undercover secret agent Tyrone Power is thwarted in his efforts to obtain a vital document with details of the Russian invasion of Yugoslavia by the death of the courier at the hands of two Russian agents, played by Mario Siletti and Charles Buchinski (aka Charles Bronson), it becomes his Read More

Pony Soldier

Actors: Tyrone Power, Cameron Mitchell, Thomas Gomez, Penny Edwards, Robert Horton

Synopsis: Generous helpings of stock footage from the 1944 film Buffalo Bill help make Pony Soldier seem far more expensive and ambitious than it actually is. Tyrone Power stars as 19th-century Royal Canadian Mountie Duncan MacDonald, whose job it is to escort a group of Cree Indians back to their Read More

I'll Never Forget You

Actors: Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Beatrice Campbell, Dennis Price

Synopsis: I'll Never Forget You is an updated remake of 1933's Berkeley Square; both films used John L. Balderston's stage play as a launching pad. Tyrone Power stars as an American atomic scientist working in London. He lives in an ancestral home which dates back to the 18th century. Late one rainy Read More

Rawhide

Actors: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Rawhide is a westernized remake of the 1936 crime melodrama Show Them No Mercy. Tyrone Power stars as Tom Owens, the assistant manager of a remote stagecoach way station. A coach arrives, bearing Vinnie Holt (Susan Hayward), who carries her baby niece in her arms. Having learned that an outlaw Read More

An American Guerrilla in the Philippines

Actors: Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle, Tom Ewell, Tommy Cook, Jack Elam

Synopsis: The year is 1942. Ensign Chuck Palmer (Tyrone Power) is stranded in the Japanese-occupied Philippines after his ship is torpedoed. Linking up with several other American refugees, Palmer helps the Filipinos organize a resistance movement against the enemy. They even manage to construct a few Read More

The Black Rose

Actors: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie

Synopsis: Partly conceived as a follow-up to Prince of Foxes, 20th Century-Fox's The Black Rose, reunites the earlier film's two stars, Tyrone Power and Orson Welles. Filmed on location in England and Morocco, the story concerns 13th-century Saxon nobleman Walter of Gurnie (Tyrone Power), who, after Read More

Prince of Foxes

Actors: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Marina Berti, Everett Sloane, Katina Paxinou

Synopsis: Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Prince of Foxes is an adaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's popular novel. Set during the Renaissance, the film stars Tyrone Power as Orsini, a good-will ambassador for scheming, covetous Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles). Orsini is aware that he is being used to Read More

That Wonderful Urge

Actors: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Reginald Gardiner, Gene Lockhart, Arleen Whelan, Lucile Watson

Synopsis: That Wonderful Urge is the second remake of Love is News (37), and is much closer to the original than the first remake (the Betty Grable musical Sweet Rosie O'Grady). Tyrone Power repeats his role from the 1937 film as a handsome reporter who targets a flighty heiress (Gene Tierney, taking over Read More

The Luck of the Irish

Actors: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Cecil Kellaway, Lee J. Cobb, James Todd

Synopsis: A semi-fantasy with sociological overtones, The Luck of the Irish stars Tyrone Power as an American journalist named Stephen Fitzgerald visiting the home of his ancestors in Ireland. Power encounters a jolly old man (Cecil Kellaway) who claims to be a leprechaun -- and proves it to the Read More

Nightmare Alley

Actors: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Ian Keith

Synopsis: Nightmare Alley is the sordid tale of a conniving young man who, in the words of one of the film's supporting characters, ends up low because he aimed so high. Drifter Tyrone Power sweet-talks his way into a job as barker for a rundown carnival. He is fascinated by an illegal side-show attraction Read More

Captain from Castile

Actors: Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb, Antonio Moreno, John Sutton

Synopsis: In this big-budget historical adventure, Tyrone Power stars as Pedro De Vargas, a young and impetuous nobleman in 16th Century Spain. Pedro helps to free a slave who belongs to Diego De Silva (John Sutton), but this proves to be a mistake, as Diego is one of the leaders of the Inquisition. Diego Read More

The Razor's Edge

Actors: Demetrius Alexis, Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Walter Bonn, Anne Baxter, Eugene Borden, Clifton Webb

Synopsis: After several years' service with the Marines in World War II, Tyrone Power made his much anticipated return to the screen in The Razor's Edge. Power is appropriately cast as disillusioned World War I vet Larry Darrell, who returns from hostilities questioning his old values. To find himself Read More

Show Business at War

Crash Dive

Actors: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason, Dame May Whitty

Synopsis: Tyrone Power made his last screen appearance before a three-year stretch in the Marines in this World War II drama. Lt. Ward Stewart (Tyrone Power) has served with distinction as the commander of a PT boat, so his uncle, Adm. Bob Stewart (Minor Watson), gives him a new and more challenging Read More

The Black Swan

Actors: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell, George Sanders

Synopsis: Perhaps unintentionally, the 1942 Technicolor swashbuckler The Black Swan is a bondage fetishist's dream, with hero and heroine Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara taking turns being tied up and imprisoned throughout the film's brisk 85-minute running time. Very loosely adapted by Ben Hecht and Seton I. Miller Read More

This Above All

Actors: Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter. Tyrone Power plays Clive Briggs, a conscientious objector from humble origins, who deserts the British Army because he doesn't believe in fighting to preserve his country's Read More

Son of Fury

Actors: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Frances Farmer, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: This period swashbuckler film is based on the adventure novel Benjamin Blake by Edison Marshall, who also wrote The Vikings (1958). When his brother dies, scheming Arthur Blake (George Sanders) kidnaps his own nephew, Benjamin (played as a youth by Roddy McDowall and as an adult by Tyrone Power). Read More

A Yank in the R.A.F.

Actors: Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart

Synopsis: A Yank in the RAF is brash pilot Tim Baker (Tyrone Power), freshly arrived in London. Hoping to impress his nightclub-singer girlfriend Carol Brown (Betty Grable), Tim joins the Royal Air Force, immediately alienating everyone with his cockiness and "What the Hell?" attitude concerning the war. Read More

Blood and Sand

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova, Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Vincente Blasco Ibanez, Blood and Sand is the beautifully rendered story of the rise and fall of a young, cocksure Spanish bullfighter, played by Tyrone Power. Working his way slowly up the ladder to success, Power achieves fame when he is praised to skies by fatuous, fickle Read More

Brigham Young

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy, Jane Darwell

Synopsis: Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members of the Church of Latter Day Saints are subjected to religious persecution by the people of Nauvoo, Illinois, where they've settled; so under the leadership of Brigham Young Read More

The Mark of Zorro

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing and swashbuckling son of a 19th century California aristocrat. As a champion of the oppressed, Zorro must face a wicked governor portrayed by J. Edward Bromberg, who, of Read More

Johnny Apollo

Actors: Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Lloyd Nolan, Edward Arnold, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: Tyrone Power plays the college-grad son of jailed-embezzler Edward Arnold. Power tries to find work, only to be turned away because of his father's reputation. When he decides to use a phony name, he is still fired, because his ex-convict boss feels that Power is being unfair to his Read More

Jesse James

Actors: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Henry Hull, Brian Donlevy

Synopsis: The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by revisionist dime novelists. But in 1939, 20th Century-Fox wasn't about to build an expensive Technicolor feature around the exploits of a couple of low-lives, thus Jesse James upholds Read More

The Rains Came

Actors: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis: Myrna Loy stars in Clarence Brown's sumptuous and exotic romance, based upon the novel by Louis Bromfield. Loy plays Lady Edwina Esketh, the unhappily married wife of Lord Albert Esketh (Nigel Bruce), a dumpy middle-aged English businessman. Edwina escapes her loneliness by engaging in ephemeral Read More

Second Fiddle

Actors: Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee, Edna May Oliver, Mary Healy

Synopsis: Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this backstage musical extravaganza is all Henie. Taking a leaf from producer David O. Selznick, Consolidated Pictures send public relation expert Tyrone Power in search of an unknown to Read More

Rose of Washington Square

Actors: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley, Joyce Compton

Synopsis: This barely-disguised portrait of singer Fanny Brice led to Brice's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox for defamation of character, a case which was settled out of court. Alice Faye plays Rose Sargent, a New York singer of the 1920s who falls for handsome, cocky wheeler-dealer Bart Clinton (Tyrone Power Read More

Day-Time Wife

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Warren William, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie

Synopsis: The extramarital shenanigans of a young married couple provide the basis of this surprisingly racy (for 1939 Hollywood) comedy. The trouble begins on the couple's second anniversary when he calls to say that he will be held up at the office. Later the wife finds lipstick on his collar and becomes Read More

Suez

Actors: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut

Synopsis: This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century French politics and the building of the Suez Canal. Tyrone Power stars as Ferdinand de Lesseps, an engineer and son of a French nobleman (Harry Stephenson). At the start of the Read More

In Old Chicago

Actors: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Brian Donlevy

Synopsis: In Old Chicago was 20th Century-Fox's spin on MGM's San Francisco--a personal saga played out against the backdrop of a famous 19th Century disaster. Alice Brady plays Mrs. O'Leary, a widow who brings her two young boys to the sleepy village of Chicago. As the city grows in prominence and Read More

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Actors: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley

Synopsis: His Aunt Sophie (Helen Westley) and his teacher Professor Heinrich (Jean Hersholt) are sure that Roger Grant (Tyrone Power) will be a famous classical violinist, but Roger's more interested in popular music. He and his friend, pianist Charlie (Don Ameche), audition at a saloon in San Francisco's Read More

Marie Antoinette

Actors: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut

Synopsis: M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of M.G.M. Norma Shearer. Shearer plays the title role of an Austrian princess who is married off to Louis Auguste (Robert Morley), the Dauphin of France. Marie, by becoming the Read More

Second Honeymoon

Actors: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Stuart Erwin, Claire Trevor, Marjorie Weaver

Synopsis: This cinematic meringue stars Loretta Young as a young woman whose second husband (Lyle Talbot) is a hard working but dull business exec. She pines for hubby Number One (Tyrone Power), an irresponsible playboy. Young runs into Tyrone again during a Florida vacation, spurning him at first because Read More

Love is News

Actors: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ameche, George "Slim" Summerville, Dudley Digges

Synopsis: Slightly reminiscent of Frank Capra's Platinum Blonde (31), this screwball comedy features those two stalwarts of 1930s comedies: The brash reporter and the giddy heiress. Tyrone Power is the reporter, who makes his living writing about the foibles of the idle rich. His special target is heiress Loretta Young Read More

Thin Ice

Actors: Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Arthur Treacher, Raymond Walburn, Joan Davis

Synopsis: Norwegian skating star Sonja Henie reached an early pinnacle with this romantic comedy co-starring Tyrone Power as a Ruritanian prince impersonating an American reporter. They fall in love, of course, and the whirlwind romance threatens to interrupt an important treaty between three rival Read More

Cafe Metropole

Actors: Loretta Young, Tyrone Power, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff, Charles Winninger

Synopsis: Cafe Metropole stars Tyrone Power as an international playboy with a habit of writing rubber checks. Heavily in debt to cafe owner Adolphe Menjou, Power agrees to pose as a Russian nobleman and woo heiress Loretta Young, so that Menjou can get his mitts on the girl's money. Avarice gives way to Read More

Girls' Dormitory

Actors: Herbert Marshall, Ruth Chatterton, Simone Simon, Constance Collier, J. Edward Bromberg, Tyrone Power

Synopsis: French actress Simone Simon made her American film debut in Girls' Dormitory. Simon portrays a twentyish student in a Swiss private school, harboring a secret passion for headmaster Herbert Marshall. For her own amusement, Simon writes an intense love letter to an imaginary beau; the letter falls Read More

Ladies in Love

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Constance Bennett, Simone Simon, Don Ameche, Tyrone Power

Synopsis: Ladies in Love transplants 20th Century-Fox's favorite film plot--three girls on the prowl for rich husbands--into the Budapest of the mid-1930s. Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young and Constance Bennett combine their earnings to rent a luxurious apartment, in hopes of attracting wealthy potential Read More

Lloyds of London

Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as seen through the eyes of fictional 19th-century Londoner Jonathan Blake (Tyrone Power, in his first starring role). A lifelong friend of naval hero Lord Nelson, Blake puts his job (and the future Read More

Northern Frontier

Actors: Kermit Maynard, Eleanor Hunt, Russell Hopton, John Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis: The second of Kermit Maynard's "Mountie" actioners for Ambassador Pictures, Northern Frontier was a major improvement on the first (The Fighting Trooper), which in itself wasn't such a bad picture either. On behalf of the Feds, Royal Mountie McKenzie (Maynard) joins a gang of counterfeiters. The Read More

Flirtation Walk

Actors: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander, Glen Boles, John Eldredge

Synopsis: Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler reunite once again for this musical salute to the West Point Military Academy, including many scenes shot at West Point with "the full cooperation of the United States Army." Powell is Canary Dorcey, a private at a Hawaiian army post where he meets the perky Kitt Fits (Ruby Keeler Read More

Tom Brown of Culver

Actors: Tom Brown, H.B. Warner, George "Slim" Summerville, Richard Cromwell, Ben Alexander

Synopsis: William Wyler directed this melodramatic story about a boy who, after growing up in the shadow of his father, learns the old man wasn't all he claimed to be. Tom Brown (played, as coincidence would have it, by an actor named Tom Brown) is a boy who has been struggling to help his mother keep body Read More

Where Was I?

Actors: Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Pauline Garon, Lee Moran, Tyrone Power

Synopsis: During the 1920s, Reginald Denny was popular in pictures for portraying all-American young men (this changed after the sound era revealed his British accent). He plays Thomas Berford, who inherited his father's business and has made a huge success of it. The only competitor who remains uncowed is Read More

The Lone Wolf

Actors: Dorothy Dalton, Jack Holt, Wilton Lackaye, Tyrone Power, Charlotte Walker

Synopsis: This drama of international crime and intrigue was based on the famous series of novels by Louis Joseph Vance. Jack Holt plays gentleman crook Michael Lanyard, also known as the Lone Wolf. The United States government has developed a ray that can stop an airplane engine in midair, but the plans Read More

Trouping with Ellen

Actors: Helene Chadwick, Mary Thurman, Gaston Glass, Basil Rathbone, Riley Hatch

Synopsis: Helene Chadwick, Gaston Glass, and a relative newcomer to the screen named Basil Rathbone were the stars of this comedy-drama, which was based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Earl Derr Biggers. Chadwick is Ellen Llewellyn, a chorus girl who is loved by orchestra leader Andy Owens (Glass), a Read More

Story without a Name

Actors: Agnes Ayres, Antonio Moreno, Tyrone Power, Louis Wolheim, Dagmar Godowsky

Synopsis: Alan Holt (Antonio Moreno) is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. International spy Drakma (Tyrone Power Sr.) wants to get his hands on the invention and he sends his henchmen to attack Holt in his laboratory. Holt's sweetheart, Mary Walsworth (Agnes Read More

Damaged Hearts

Actors: Mary Carr, Jerry Devine, Helen Rowland, Tyrone Power, Jean Armour

Synopsis: This muddled, improbable drama was only interesting because it was shot in the swampland of the Florida Everglades. David, a young orphan (Jerry Devine), has a sister (Helen Rowland) who is adopted by a wealthy family, the Winfields. But the family's son mistreats David, and the girl dies of Read More

For Another Woman

Actors: Kenneth Harlan, Florence Billings, Arnold Daly, Henry Sedley

Synopsis: The all-star cast of this plodding and somber melodrama does little to add any spark to the story from Pearl Doles Bell. Mary Thurmon plays a flapper who convinces her friend to care for her child when the baby is supposedly born out of wedlock. Later it is discovered she is married to a villain Read More

Day of Faith

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Tyrone Power, Raymond Griffith, Wallace MacDonald, Ford Sterling

Synopsis: This drama was an early starring vehicle for fledgling star (Eleanor Boardman), and it was given a haunting directoral approach by Tod Browning, who hadn't yet devoted himself completely to horror films. After the death of philanthropist Blank Hendricks (Winter Hall), Jane Maynard (Boardman) Read More

Bright Lights of Broadway

Actors: Lowell Sherman, Doris Kenyon, Harrison Ford, Effie Shannon

Synopsis: While this theatrical drama is based on the clichéd premise of a country girl coming to the big city, it offers some colorful shots of the Great White Way. Charlie Murray and the Tiller Girls also perform dance numbers. The cast, too, is excellent, beginning with Doris Kenyon as Irene Marley, the Read More

Wife in Name Only

Actors: Mary Thurman, Edmund Lowe, Florence Dixon

Synopsis: When Philippa (Mary Thurman) fails to impress the man of her dreams Norman (Edmund Lowe), she conspires to break his heart in this romantic melodrama. After Norman marries Madaline (Florence Dixon), Philippa tells him his father-in-law is the burglar who murdered his mother. Madaline's mother (Edna May Oliver Read More

Footfalls

Actors: Tyrone Power, Tom Douglas, Estelle Taylor, Gladden James

Synopsis: Hiram Scudder (Tyrone Power, Sr.) is a blind cobbler, whose son Tommy (Tom Douglas) is in love with the pretty but ambitious Peggy Hawthorne (Estelle Taylor). When Peggy insists that Tommy go out into the world and make something of himself before she marries him, Hiram is reluctant to let his son Read More

Black Panther's Cub

Actors: Florence Reed, Norman Trevor, Henry Stephenson

Synopsis: This long and rather convoluted drama was very loosely based on the poem "Faustine" by Algernon Swinburne. It was the first film produced by William K. Ziegfeld, the lesser-known brother of theatrical producer Florenz Ziegfeld. Florence Reed (who was better known for her stage roles than her film Read More