Hartley Power
Date of birth: 1894-03-14
Place of birth: New York City, New York
Known for: Acting
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hartley Power (1894–1966) was an American-born British film and television actor. He is best remembered for two roles: "Sylvester Kee" the ventriloquist who is shot and almost killed by "Maxwell Frere" (Michael Redgrave) as a rival for his "dummy"'s affections in Dead of Night; the chief of the news agency that Gregory Peck worked for in Roman Holiday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hartley Power licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Roman Holiday
1953-08-26
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while i
Jury's Evidence
1936-01-01
The Foreman of an Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder c
Dead of Night
1945-09-09
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his rec
Where There's a Will
1936-08-10
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to fin
Atlantic Ferry
1941-09-06
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic b
Murder Will Out
1939-08-13
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for
A Window in London
1940-06-15
A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife wh
The Man from Morocco
1945-04-17
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Bri
Yes, Mr. Brown
1933-05-25
The manager of a foreign branch of an American toy company attempts to entertain his visiting Americ
The Camels Are Coming
1934-10-08
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smuggler
Road House
1934-11-29
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine
Evergreen
1934-04-01
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears o
Leave It to Smith
1933-09-13
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness f
The Million Pound Note
1954-01-07
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen wh
The Armchair Detective
1951-01-01
The BBC armchair detective clears a nightclub singer of suspicion of the murder of her boss.
Alibi
1942-08-10
In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.
Aunt Sally
1934-06-13
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job i
Living Dangerously
1936-03-08
The dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of
Return to Yesterday
1940-03-09
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre
Down River
1931-05-08
A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.
The Way to the Stars
1945-06-16
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Bri
To Dorothy, a Son
1954-10-31
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband do
The Return of the Frog
1938-11-24
The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
The Net
1953-02-09
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a gr
Island in the Sun
1957-06-12
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitiou
Friday the Thirteenth
1933-11-01
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a Lond
A Girl in a Million
1946-10-28
A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is br