Tom Powers

Actor

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Birth Place

Owensboro, Kentucky, USA

Born

July 07, 1890

Died

November 09, 1955

Cause of Death

Heart Ailment

Biography

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Tom Powers was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Powers's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as the comedy "Practically Yours" (1944) with Claudette Colbert, "Double Indemnity" (1944) with Fred MacMurray and "The Chicago Kid" (1945). He also appeared in "The Blue Dahlia" (1946), "Her Adventurous Night" (1946) and the romance "Angel and the Ba...

Filmography

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Heroes Die Young (1960)

Ten Wanted Men (1955)

The Americano (1955)

New York Confidential (1955)

District Attorney Rossi

The Eternal Sea (1955)

Double Jeopardy (1955)

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Station West (1948) -- (Movie Clip) He Picks A Good Fight

Scene Of The Crime (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Only Fools Bet Horses

Biography

Tom Powers was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Powers's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as the comedy "Practically Yours" (1944) with Claudette Colbert, "Double Indemnity" (1944) with Fred MacMurray and "The Chicago Kid" (1945). He also appeared in "The Blue Dahlia" (1946), "Her Adventurous Night" (1946) and the romance "Angel and the Badman" (1947) with John Wayne. His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects like the James Cagney dramatic adaptation "The Time of Your Life" (1948), the Deanna Durbin adaptation "Up in Central Park" (1948) and the Dick Powell western "Station West" (1948). He also appeared in the comedic adaptation "Mexican Hayride" (1948) with Bud Abbott. Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in "Phone Call From a Stranger" (1952) with Shelley Winters, "We're Not Married" (1952) and the Robert Ryan drama "Horizons West" (1952). He also appeared in "The Steel Trap" (1952) and "Scared Stiff" (1953) with Dean Martin. Powers more recently acted in "The Americano" (1955). Powers passed away in November 1955 at the age of 65.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Heroes Die Young (1960)

Ten Wanted Men (1955)

The Americano (1955)

New York Confidential (1955)

District Attorney Rossi

The Eternal Sea (1955)

Double Jeopardy (1955)

Lucky Me (1954)

Sea of Lost Ships (1954)

Devil's Canyon (1953)

Julius Caesar (1953)

Metellus Cimber

Scared Stiff (1953)

Police lieutenant

The Last Posse (1953)

The Marksman (1953)

Governor Watson

I, the Jury (1953)

Donovan's Brain (1953)

Hannah Lee (1953)

Diplomatic Courier (1952)

The WAC from Walla Walla (1952)

Deadline--U.S.A. (1952)

We're Not Married! (1952)

Attorney General Frank Bush

Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)

The Fabulous Senorita (1952)

The Steel Trap (1952)

Horizons West (1952)

Bal Tabarin (1952)

Denver & Rio Grande (1952)

Flesh and Fury (1952)

The Well (1951)

The Strip (1951)

Lt. Detective Bonnabel

The Tall Target (1951)

Simon G. Stroud

Fighting Coast Guard (1951)

The Nevadan (1950)

Right Cross (1950)

East Side, West Side (1950)

Again Pioneers (1950)

Chinatown at Midnight (1950)

Capt. Howard Brown

Destination Moon (1950)

Chicago Deadline (1949)

Scene of the Crime (1949)

Special Agent (1949)

Chief Special Agent Wilcox

Angel in Exile (1948)

Mexican Hayride (1948)

I Love Trouble (1948)

Station West (1948)

Captain [George] Iles

The Time of Your Life (1948)

[Freddy Blick] A stool-pigeon and frame-up artist

Up in Central Park (1948)

Angel and the Badman (1947)

The Farmer's Daughter (1947)

For the Love of Rusty (1947)

The Son of Rusty (1947)

They Won't Believe Me (1947)

Her Adventurous Night (1946)

Dan Carter/Bank robber

The Blue Dahlia (1946)

Capt. Hendrickson

The Last Crooked Mile (1946)

Two Years Before the Mast (1946)

The Chicago Kid (1945)

The Phantom Speaks (1945)

Harvey Bogardus

Double Indemnity (1944)

Mr. Dietrichson

Practically Yours (1944)

Commander Harpe

The Auction Block (1917)

Life Events

Videos

Station West (1948) -- (Movie Clip) He Picks A Good Fight Emerging from an Arizona saloon, sometime after a military gold robbery, Dick Powell, who’s still pretty much a stranger to us, follows a soldier (Steve Brodie) with whom he argued, when some neat exposition introduces Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Caslon, and Tom Powers as Capt. Iles, in Station West, 1948.

Scene Of The Crime (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Only Fools Bet Horses Three L-A cops (Van Johnson as Mike Conovan, with John McIntire and Tom Drake) investigating a colleague’s murder have followed the car that just picked up a suspect they were watching, to learn that he’s been grabbed by syndicate crook “Umpire” (Tom Powers), looking to set up a larger operation, in Scene Of The Crime, 1949.

They Won't Believe Me (1947) -- (Movie Clip) To The Jury Please Opening scenes, folksy lawyer Cahill (Frank Ferguson) beginning his defense of slippery Larry (Robert Young), brief introductions for Tom Powers, Janet Shaw, Jane Greer and others who will figure in the story, from They Won't Believe Me, 1947, also starring Susan Hayward.

Double Indemnity (1944) -- (Movie Cilp) Chinese Checkers Insurance man Walter (Fred MacMurray), fading as he confesses via Dictaphone to his boss, recalls his meeting with his lover and co-conspirator Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck), her husband Didrickson (Tom Powers) and his daughter Lola (Jean Heather), in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity, 1944.

Destination Moon (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Your Vindication The seminal if low-rent opening from producer George Pal, credits leading to scientist Cargraves (Warner Anderson) and General Thayer (Tom Powers) in a bunker, in the landmark post-WWII Science Fiction feature, from a story and script by Robert Heinlein, Destination Moon, 1950.

Destination Moon (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Only American Industry Ending the Walter Lantz-Woody Woodpecker cartoon they've cleverly had made to support their case for a privately-funded moon mission, industrialist Barnes (John Archer) lets General Thayer (Tom Powers) bring home the point to a gathering of investors, in George Pal's Destination Moon, 1950.

Destination Moon (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Weightless In Free Orbit In a well conceived sequence from Robert Heinlein's novel, Barnes, Cargraves, General Thayer and wiseguy Joe (John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson) feel some serious G's in the launch of the first manned moon mission, in producer George Pal's ground-breaking Destination Moon, 1950.

Tall Target, The -- (Movie Clip) Radical Republicans Railroad men Will Geer and Victor Kilian, cop Regis Toomey, star Dick Powell (as "Kennedy"), with Tom Powers, Adolphe Menjou et al, opening Anthony Mann's drama of the attempt on president-elect Lincoln's life, The Tall Target, 1951.

They Won't Believe Me (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Special Kind Of Dynamite Still narrating in flashback from his murder trial, Larry Balantime (Robert Young), set up by his well-to-do wife in a new job, Tom Powers his boss, aptly-described Susan Hayward (as "Verna") plotting, in They Won't Believe Me, 1947, produced by Joan Harrison.

Blue Dahlia, The - (Original Trailer) Raymond Chandler's only movie written for the screen, The Blue Dahlia (1946), has Alan Ladd trying to clear his name of murder.

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