William Powell
William Powell was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States on July 29th, 1892 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 91, William Powell biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Career
Powell attended the University of Kansas because his parents wanted him to study law, but after just a week there, he left the academy and moved to New York City to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Powell left the AADA at the end of one year and spent time in vain delving and stock firms in 1912. After several successes on Broadway, he began his career in 1922, playing a small part as an evil henchman of Professor Moriarty in a production of Sherlock Holmes with John Barrymore. When Knighthood Was in Flower, Marion Davies' most expensive film to date, he appeared as Francis I.
Powell starred heels and villains in the early years of his career, under As he gained experience, he gradually transitioned into leading-man roles partnered with Bebe Daniels, Evelyn Brent, and Kay Francis. Francis joined Powell after he left Paramount to sign with Warner Bros. One Way Passage was one of their most well-reviewed films together. Powell and Francis, a Paramount and Warner Bros., made seven films together.
In The Last Command (1928), his most notable role in silent films was as a vengeful film director opposite Emil Jannings' Academy Award-winning role as a fallen general. Philo Vance, the canary Murder Case (1929), after this triumph, as well as Powell's commandingly pleasant speaking voice, led to his first film appearance as amateur detective Philo Vance. Philo Vance appeared at Paramount Pictures three times, twice at Warner's in his last appearance in The Kennel Murder Case.
Many people in Hollywood adored Powell. Marion Shilling, an actor, spent time in Shadow of the Law and described him as "self-effacing, deferential, tremendously thoughtful of others." He was one of the most generous human beings I've ever seen. He knew that I was in awe of him, so he did what he could to put me at ease from the start.
Nick Charles appeared in six Thin Man films, beginning with The Thin Man in 1934 and based on Dashiell Hammett's book. Powell, with his evocative speaking voice, had a brilliant chance to showcase his refined charm and witty sense of humor, and he received his first Academy Award nomination for The Thin Man. In each of the Thin Man films, Myrna Loy played his wife, Nora. Their on-screen partnership, which began with Clark Gable in 1934 with the Manhattan Melodrama, was one of Hollywood's most popular, and they appeared in 14 films together.
Loy and Powell appeared in the Best Picture of 1936, The Great Ziegfeld, with Powell playing the title role and Loy as Ziegfeld's wife Billie Burke. He also received his second Academy Award nomination for his comedy My Man Godfrey in the same year.
He appeared in Reckless in 1935 with Jean Harlow. They were reunited on film and with Loy and Spencer Tracy in 1936's screwball comedy Libeled Lady, a serious romance developed between them, and in 1936, they were reunited on screen and with Loy and Spencer Tracy. Harlow fell sick quickly after and died of uremia at the age of 26 in June 1937 before they could marry. His grief over her death, as well as a personal diagnosis of cancer, led him to fewer acting opportunities. Powell's career slowed dramatically in the 1940s, but he earned his third Academy Award nomination in 1947 for his role as the formidable Clarence Day, Sr., in Life with Father. Mister Roberts, who appeared on Henry Fonda in the title role, James Cagney as the ship's perfectionist captain, and Jack Lemmon in his Oscar-winning role as Ensign Pulver.