Tyrone Power Sr.

Born: 1869-05-02

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 .


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The Big Trail

as Red Flack
Released: 1930-11-01

Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to...

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Where Are My Children?

as Richard Walton
Released: 1916-04-16

Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial...

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Braveheart

as Standing Rock
Released: 1925-12-27

Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning...

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National Red Cross Pageant

as Servia - Final episode
Released: 1917-12-01

The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to...

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The Red Kimona

as Gabrielle's Father
Released: 1925-11-16

A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.

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The Wanderer

as Jesse
Released: 1925-08-19

Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He...

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Footfalls

as Hiram Scudder
Released: 1921-09-08

A blind cobbler is able, by dint of his extraordinary hearing, to recognize the identity of a...

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The Day of Faith

as Michael Anstell
Released: 1923-10-20

Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a...

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He's a Prince!

as King
Released: 1925-10-05

Prince Alexis is the son of the king of a small European country. His duties, though fairly...

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Fury

as Captain Leyton
Released: 1923-01-01

Fury is a 1923 silent film

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Janice Meredith

as Lord Cornwallis
Released: 1924-12-08

It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She...

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The Daring Years

as James LaMotte (as Tyrone Power)
Released: 1923-09-15

Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man...

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Dream Street

as Street Preacher
Released: 1921-04-12

Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.

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A Texas Steer

as Maverick Brander
Released: 1915-07-26

Urged on by his wife and daughter and against his better judgment, Texas cattle-baron Maverick...

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Damaged Hearts

as Sandy
Released: 1924-02-21

Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both...

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Where Was I?

as George Stone
Released: 1925-08-24

A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.

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Hands Across the Border

as John Drake
Released: 1926-05-01

Cattle rancher John Drake sends his son, Ted, to the Mexican border to stop the smuggling that...

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Greater Than Marriage

as Father (as Tyrone Power)
Released: 1924-11-16

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The Lone Wolf

as Bannon
Released: 1924-04-27

A silent film Directed by Stanner E.V. Taylor.

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Thou Shalt Not Covet

as I, or the Hero
Released: 1916-02-07

A scientist who is married to an amoral woman lives next door to a happily married couple. At...

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Out of the Storm

as Mr. Lawrence
Released: 1926-04-10

Out of the Storm is a 1926 silent drama.

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The Story Without a Name

as Drakma (as Tyrone Power)
Released: 1924-10-27

Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government....

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Bride of the Storm

as Jacob Kroon
Released: 1926-02-20

An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh...

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The Great Shadow

as Jim McDonald
Released: 1920-04-21

Jim McDonald, the foreman of a shipbuilding plant and head of the labor union, strives to combat...

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Trouping with Ellen

as Mr. Llewellyn
Released: 1924-10-05

Ellen Llewellyn is a chorus girl who is loved by orchestra leader Andy Owens, a genuinely nice...

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Bright Lights of Broadway

as John Kirk
Released: 1923-08-06

An innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of...

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The Eye of God

as Olaf
Released: 1916-06-05

Olaf writes his memoirs, before his execution. He tells of his life as a struggling farmer when...

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