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Dick Powell

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Also known as Richard Ewing Powell

American actor (1904-1963)

OverviewAI-generated

Dick Powell was an American male artist whose career began in 1930. He is recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection. His musical output has been associated with jazz, oldies, Big Band, and American styles.

A separate individual named Dick Powell, born in 1951, is an author of seven works. These include titles such as Advanced marker techniques, Design rendering techniques, and Presentation techniques: a guide to drawing and presenting design ideas.

Another Dick Powell is identified as a Brazilian male artist. His genres include bossa nova, jazz, latin, latin jazz, and samba-jazz.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Born
Richard Ewing Powell , ( 1904-11-14 ) November 14, 1904, Mountain View, Arkansas , U.S.
Died
January 2, 1963 (1963-01-02) (aged 58), Los Angeles, California , U.S.
Resting place
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Occupations
Actor singer musician producer director studio head
Years active
1930–1963
Spouses
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Dick
Family name
Powell
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Mountain View
Place of death
West Los Angeles
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Instrument
piano
Record label
Bell Records
Image
Dick powell - publicity.JPG
Residence
Little Rock
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Dick Powell
date of birth
1904-11-14
date of death
1963-01-03
cause of death
lymphoma
manner of death
natural causes
Commons gallery
Dick Powell
start of work period
1930-00-00
writing language
English language
name in native language
Dick Powell
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Encyclopedic overview

Richard Ewing Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardboiled leading man, starring in projects of a more dramatic nature. He was the first actor to portray private detective Philip Marlowe on screen.

Early life

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