Tyrone Power Sr.
Tyrone Power Sr. is known for The Big Trail (1930), Where Are My Children? (1916), The Wanderer (1925).
Biography
From Wikipedia
Frederick Tyrone Edmond Power (2 May 1869 – 23 December 1931) was an English stage and screen actor, who acted under the name Tyrone Power.
After an extremely prosperous 30 years of acting on the stage and touring around the world, Power moved into silent films in 1914. Initially playing the leading man in films, he soon switched to playing villains and proved highly successful.
In 1916 Power played the male lead in Where Are My Children?, a serious film about birth control and social issues directed by pioneer woman director Lois Weber and her husband Phillips Smalley. That same year Power appeared in a Selig film called John Needham's Double. When not acting on Broadway, Power appeared in films. Producer William Fox found him a great character part at Fox Studios in Footfalls (1921). Also in 1921 Power appeared in D.W. Griffith's Dream Street in which experimental synchronised sound was used, using the Photokinema sound-on-disc system. In 1924 Power was in the cast of the sumptuous Janice Meredith, a Hearst produced Marion Davies vehicle. In 1925 Power appeared in a film called The Red Kimono, a film as daring as Where Are My Children? had been a decade earlier. The Red Kimono was produced and partly written by Dorothy Davenport, the widow of Wallace Reid. Power finished out the decade and silent era in several A-list silent films.
In 1930, Power had a final great role as the villainous "bull whacker" Red Flack in Raoul Walsh's widescreen epic The Big Trail, which was Power's first and only talkie and provided an unknown John Wayne with his first starring role. Power then prepared to film a sound remake of The Miracle Man, which had been a great silent success in 1919 for Lon Chaney. A few scenes had been shot, but before filming could be completed Power died of a heart attack in the arms of his 17-year-old son at the end of 1931. He was 62. His part of the preacher in The Miracle Man was taken up by fellow veteran actor Hobart Bosworth.
He is now usually referred to as Tyrone Power Sr., to distinguish him from his son, star actor Tyrone Power, who would die at the age of 44, also of a heart attack .
Questions about Tyrone Power Sr.
How many Tyrone Power Sr. films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 11 films with Tyrone Power Sr., from 1916 to 1930.
What is the best rated Tyrone Power Sr. film?
The best rated Tyrone Power Sr. film in the catalogue is The Big Trail (1930), rated 6.7.
What was the first Tyrone Power Sr. film?
The first Tyrone Power Sr. film in the catalogue is The Big Trail, from 1930.
People data: TMDb.
Known for
Full filmography
39 films — 11 in the catalogue
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6.7 The Big Trail
1930 · Red Flack
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9.0
The Elegy
1927 · Servant of Satan
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6.5 Hands Across the Border
1926 · John Drake
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10.0 Out of the Storm
1926 · Mr. Lawrence
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8.0
The Test of Donald Norton
1926 · John Corrigal
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8.0 Bride of the Storm
1926 · Jacob Kroon
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7.0 O Meu Coração é Teu
1925 · Standing Rock
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5.8 The Red Kimona
1925 · Gabrielle's Father
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7.0 He's a Prince!
1925 · King
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5.0 Where Was I?
1925 · George Stone
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3.0 The Wanderer
1925 · Jesse
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8.0 School for Wives
1925
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7.0 Janice Meredith
1924 · Lord Cornwallis
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8.0 Greater Than Marriage
1924 · Father (as Tyrone Power)
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7.0 For Another Woman
1924
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10.0 The Story Without a Name
1924 · Drakma (as Tyrone Power)
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10.0 Trouping with Ellen
1924 · Mr. Llewellyn
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9.0 The Lone Wolf
1924 · Bannon
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8.0 Damaged Hearts
1924 · Sandy
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8.0 The Day of Faith
1923 · Michael Anstell
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10.0 The Daring Years
1923 · James LaMotte (as Tyrone Power)
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8.0 Wife in Name Only
1923 · Dornham
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10.0 Bright Lights of Broadway
1923 · John Kirk
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8.0
The Truth About Wives
1923 · Howard Hendricks
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9.5 Fury
1923 · Captain Leyton
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10.0 Footfalls
1921 · Hiram Scudder
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7.0 The Black Panther's Cub
1921 · Count Boris Orliff
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6.0 Rua dos Sonhos
1921 · Street Preacher
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9.0 The Great Shadow
1920 · Jim McDonald
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8.0 National Red Cross Pageant
1917 · Servia - Final episode
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The Planter
1917 · Ludwig Hertzer
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Lorelei of the Sea
1917 · Paul
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The Eye of God
1916 · Olaf
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5.9 Where Are My Children?
1916 · Richard Walton
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John Needham's Double
1916 · Lord John Needham / Joseph Norbury
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Thou Shalt Not Covet
1916 · I, or the Hero
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Sweet Alyssum
1915 · Roanoke Brooks
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A Texas Steer
1915 · Maverick Brander
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Aristocracy
1914 · Jefferson Stockton
People data: TMDb.
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