Page 3 of 3 This set of pages is dedicated to the actors who appeared in more than one picture with Ty. These actors were primarily character actors, though a few of them also appeared in some lead roles. All were an important part of the mix that helped make Tyrone Power movies great!
Pictured to left are Tyrone Power and John Carradine , from a scene in Son of Fury.
George Zucco
Born
January 11, 1886
Manchester, England
Died
May 28, 1960,
Hollywood, California
Filmography
Film career spanned
1931-1952
Movies with Ty
Suez (1938) .... Prime Minister
Marie Antoinette (1938) .... Governor of Conciergerie
The Black Swan (1942) .... Lord Denby
Captain from Castile (1947) .... Marquis De Carvajal
Other Movies
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
The Mummy's Hand (1940)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Tidbit
This veteran stage actor was also a respected character actor, who appeared in close to one hundred films. He was very
versatile and played all sorts of roles. In 1936, he played on Broadway in Victoria Regina, which starred the great stage actress, Helen Hayes.
Harry Davenport
Born
January 19, 1866,
New York, New York
Died
August 9, 1949,
Los Angeles, California (heart attack)
Filmography
Film career spanned
1914-1949
Movies with Ty
Marie Antoinette (1938) .... Monsieur de Cosse
Son of Fury (1942) .... Amos Kidder
Other Movies
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
Tidbit
This character actor, who appeared in about 140 films, appeared with Tyrone Power, Sr. (Tyrone's dad) in 1917's The Planter.
Harry Hayden
Born
November 8, 1882
Canada
Died
July 24, 1955,
West Los Angeles, California
Filmography
Film career spanned
1936-1954
Movies with Ty
In Old Chicago (1937) (uncredited) .... Johnson (secretary)
Love Is News (1937) .... Salesman
The Rains Came (1939) .... Reverend Elmer Sim
Rose of Washington Square (1939) .... Dexter
Other Movies
Lillian Russell (1940)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Notorious (1946)
Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)
Tidbit
He appeared in about 250 films, often in uncredited or very small roles. He's one of those character actors whose face and voice would seem familiar, but whose name wouldn't come readily to mind, except to the true golden era film buff.
Joseph Schildkraut
Born
March 22, 1896,
Vienna, Austria
Died
January 21, 1964
New York, New York
Filmography
Film career spanned
1915-1964
Movies with Ty
Suez (1938) .... Vicomte Rene De Latour
Marie Antoinette (1938) .... Duke Phillipe d'Orleans
The Rains Came (1939) .... Mr. Bannerjee
Other Movies
Cleopatra (1934)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Idiot's Delight (1939)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Tidbit
Schildkraut began his film career in Germany and Austria, appearing in a just a few films. In 1924, he appeared in his first American film, Orphans of the Storm, which starred the famed actress, Lillian Gish. By 1925, he had gained stardom, with Cecil B. DeMille's The Road to Yesterday. He made a smooth transition from silent films to "talkies" and continued making movies until the year of his death, sometimes starring roles but often character roles. Schildkraut was also a noted Broadway star. He made his first Broadway appearance in 1921 in Pagans. That same year, he performed in Liliom, which was a play that Tyrone Power liked a lot and performed with his wife, Annabella, at The Country Playhouse, Westport, Connecticut, in 1941. Schildkraut's last Broadway appearance was The Diary of Ann Frank, which ran for 717 performances, beginning October 5, 1955 and closing June 22, 1957. He also starred in the movie by the same name in 1959.
Lyle Talbot
Born
February 8, 1902,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died
March 2, 1996,
San Francisco, California
Filmography
Film career spanned
1931-1960 (in addition, there were a few sporadic television roles until 1986)
Movies with Ty
Second Fiddle (1939) .... Willie Hogger
Second Honeymoon (1937) .... Bob Benton
Other Movies
Three on a Match (1932)
Champagne for Caesar (1950)
Glen or Glenda (1953)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Tidbit
Lyle Talbot appeared in close to two hundred films and as a guest star in well over one hundred television shows. His son is noted public television journalist, Stephen Talbot, who has written and produced many documentaries. As a child, Stephen played Gilbert Bates on the Leave It to Beaver television show.
Moroni Olsen
Born
June 27, 1889,
Ogden, Utah
Died
November 22, 1954,
Los Angeles, California (heart attack)
Filmography
Film career spanned
1931-1954
Movies with Ty
Brigham Young - Frontiersman (1940) .... Doc Richards
Marie Antoinette (1938) (uncredited) .... Bearded Leader of the People
Rose of Washington Square (1939) .... Buck Russell
Other Movies
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Notorious (1946)
The Fountainhead (1949)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Tidbit
Moroni Olsen, one of Hollywood's strongest character actors, made over 100 films in his career, playing a wide variety of roles as villains, doctors, preachers, lawyers, among others. His last film, Sign of the Pagan , in which he played Pope Leo I, was released after his death in 1954.
Taylor Holmes
Born
May 16, 1872, Newark, New Jersey
Died
September 30, 1959, Hollywood, California
Filmography
Film career spanned
1917-1959
Movies with Ty
Nightmare Alley (1947) .... Ezra Grindle
That Wonderful Urge (1947) .... Attorney Rice
Other Movies
Kiss of Death (1947)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Tidbit
Taylor Holmes played character roles in over seventy-five movies. He was a stage actor as well. Holmes was married for many years to Edna Phillips, until her death in 1952. She was a stage actress who appeared in a few silent films in the early part of the 20th century. One of their sons, Ralph Holmes, also an actor, died in November 1945, from barbituate poisoning. Another son,
Phillips Holmes, an actor in a number of films of the 20's and 30's, was killed in a plane crash in Canada, in 1942.
Dudley Digges
Born
June 9, 1879,
Dublin, Ireland
Date of death (details)
Died
October 24, 1947,
New York, New York (stroke)
Filmography
Film career spanned
1929-1946
Movies with Ty
Son of Fury (1942) .... Bartholomew Pratt
Love Is News (1937) .... Cyrus Jeffrey
Other Movies
The Invisible Man (1933)
China Seas (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Raffles (1940)
Tidbit
Dudley Digges appeared in about fifty movies, in character roles. He also appeared in, directed, and staged many Broadway shows, with over fifty total Broadway credits. His Broadway credits include such productions as The Iceman Cometh, Candida, The Brothers Karamazov, Faust, Pygmalion, The Importance of Being Earnest, She Stoops to Conquer, Disraeli, and Paganini.
Nigel Bruce
Born
February 14, 1895,
Ensenada, Mexico
Died
October 8, 1953,
Santa Monica, California(heart attack)
Filmography
Career spanned
1929-1954
Movies with Ty
Suez (1938) .... Sir Malcolm Cameron
The Rains Came (1939) ....Lord Albert Esketh
This Above All (1942) .... Ramsbottom
Other Movies
Rebecca (1940)
Suspicion (1941)
Limelight (1952)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Tidbit
Nigel Bruce's best claim to fame was his role as Dr. Watson to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes. They made fourteen movies and many radio shows together.
Paul Hurst
Born
Died
Filmography
Career spanned
1912-1953
Movies with Ty
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) .... Bill Mulligan
In Old Chicago (1937) .... Mitch
Second Honeymoon (1937) .... Dennis Huggins
Other Movies
Island of Lost Souls (1933)
The Westerner (1940)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Angel and the Badman (1947)
Tidbit
Paul Hurst was in almost 300 films, beginning with silent ones and continuing until his death in 1953. His most famous scene in a movie was in Gone with the Wind, when, as the deserter, he was shot to death on Tara's stairway by Scarlett .
Henry Stephenson
Born
April 16, 1871,
Granada, British West Indies
Died
April 24. 1956,
San Francisco, California
Filmography
Career spanned
1917-1949
Movies with Ty
Marie Antoinette (1938) .... Count de Mercey
Suez (1938) .... Count Mathieu de Lesseps
This Above All (1942) .... General Cathaway
Other Movies
Little Women (1933)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
Oliver Twist (1948)
Tidbit
Stephenson worked with Ty's dad, Tyrone Power, Sr., in 1921's
The Black Panther's Cub .
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