Tyrone Power Sr.
Date of birth: 1869-05-02
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Frederick Tyrone Edmond Power, Frederick Power, Tyrone Power
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 .
Movie Credits
Out of the Storm
1926-04-10
Out of the Storm is a 1926 silent drama.
The Story Without a Name
1924-10-27
Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. Internati
Thou Shalt Not Covet
1916-02-07
A scientist who is married to an amoral woman lives next door to a happily married couple. At first
Trouping with Ellen
1924-10-05
Ellen Llewellyn is a chorus girl who is loved by orchestra leader Andy Owens, a genuinely nice guy.
Hands Across the Border
1926-05-01
Cattle rancher John Drake sends his son, Ted, to the Mexican border to stop the smuggling that is us
Janice Meredith
1924-12-08
It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cav
Where Are My Children?
1916-04-16
Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for
Braveheart
1925-12-27
Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation
National Red Cross Pageant
1917-12-01
The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sel
Bride of the Storm
1926-02-20
An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh and he
The Truth About Wives
1923-02-03
Helen Frazer marries Harold Lawton to please her domineering grandmother. However, Harold continues
Footfalls
1921-09-08
A blind cobbler is able, by dint of his extraordinary hearing, to recognize the identity of a murder
A Texas Steer
1915-07-26
Urged on by his wife and daughter and against his better judgment, Texas cattle-baron Maverick Brand
Fury
1923-01-01
Boy Leyton is second mate on board the Lady Spray, the ship on which his father is Captain Leyton. B
Where Was I?
1925-08-24
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
The Red Kimona
1925-11-16
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
The Big Trail
1930-11-01
Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get
The Day of Faith
1923-10-20
Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a pow
Dream Street
1921-04-12
Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.
The Lone Wolf
1924-04-27
A silent film Directed by Stanner E.V. Taylor.
The Test of Donald Norton
1926-03-01
In the frozen north, a husky but not over-bright half-breed Indian seeks the identity of his white f
He's a Prince!
1925-10-05
Prince Alexis is the son of the king of a small European country. His duties, though fairly unimport
The Wanderer
1925-08-19
Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to
The Great Shadow
1920-04-21
Jim McDonald, the foreman of a shipbuilding plant and head of the labor union, strives to combat the
The Eye of God
1916-06-05
Olaf writes his memoirs, before his execution. He tells of his life as a struggling farmer when Reni
Greater Than Marriage
1924-11-16
Sweet Alyssum
1915-11-15
The boss of iron worker Roanoke Brooks (Power), is having an affair with his wife (Kathlyn Williams)
Damaged Hearts
1924-02-21
Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are a
Bright Lights of Broadway
1923-08-06
An innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of a r
Wife in Name Only
1923-08-25
Wealthy orphan Philippa L'Estrange loves handsome Norman Arleigh and is confident of marrying him un
John Needham's Double
1916-04-10
Although he has been appointed to guard the fortune of young Thomas Creighton, the unscrupulous Lord
The Daring Years
1923-09-15
Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man named J
Aristocracy
1914-11-26
School for Wives
1925-04-05
School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conwa
For Another Woman
1924-11-01
Young New York playboy Stephen Winthrop inherits the entire estate of his wealthy Canadian uncle but
Lorelei of the Sea
1917-08-28
The Planter
1917-11-12
The Planter is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and John Ince.
The Black Panther's Cub
1921-05-15
The daughter of the former queen of a Paris gambling house impersonates her mother and reopens the e
The Elegy
1927-08-06
Directorial debut of Andrew L. Stone.