Richard Powell

AKA: William Richard Powell
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1896-12-31

Peoria, Illinois, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {34}

Insurance Salesman (uncredited)

1937-02-26 6

Love Is News

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every sales ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

1936-10-09 6.5

Wedding Present

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional a ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Dinwiddie

1937-02-12 0

Clarence

The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy and ec ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Family

Chesty

1935-12-30 7.4

If You Could Only Cook

An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Crime

Lee

1935-08-02 6.3

Woman Wanted

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vo ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Pirate of the Spanish Main

1934-08-17 6.514

Treasure Island

In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure. ...
Genre :Adventure, Family

Benedict

1936-07-23 3.5

Yours for the Asking

Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto th ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Candy Butcher

1936-04-10 6.9

The Moon's Our Home

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During the honeymoon, all hell breaks loose as a comedic w ...
Genre :Comedy

Waiter

1934-04-18 2

A Very Honorable Guy

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitio ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Romance

Football Salesman

1936-09-18 6.9

The Devil Is a Sissy

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Third Member of Quartet in 'Playboy of Paree' Number (uncredited)

1935-12-07 5.3

Broadway Hostess

Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Jinks

1933-04-30 0

Feeling Rosy

Andy Clyde is in desperate need of a vacation, and it's not exactly helping the stress. ...
Genre :Comedy

Police Lieutenant (uncredited)

1934-09-11 6

Girl in Danger

Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster. ...
Genre :Mystery, Action, Crime

Pete Moran (uncredited)

1936-08-20 2.7

Hollywood Boulevard

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Win ...
Genre :Drama

Beanery Man

1936-06-19 0

Sins of Man

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI b ...
Genre :Drama

Reporter (uncredited)

1936-04-09 7.5

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for ever ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Taxi Driver

1936-01-17 7

Paddy O'Day

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance

1936-02-21 0

Here Comes Trouble

Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks. ...
Genre :

First Steward (uncredited)

1937-06-25 7.444

Captains Courageous

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade the ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Family

Customs Officer

1936-08-01 4.5

To Mary - with Love

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together. ...
Genre :Drama

Fritz (uncredited)

1935-10-10 5

It's in the Air

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and ...
Genre :Comedy

Cowboy

1936-07-01 4

Rhythm on the Range

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her hea ...
Genre :Western

Party Guest Mixing Cocktails

1935-03-08 5.808

The Wedding Night

While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops romantic feelings for Manya Novak, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Stagecoach Driver

1936-03-20 8

Silly Billies

The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bu ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

Nick

1935-09-07 6

Little Big Shot

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

1933-02-24 0

Pleasure Island

A Warner Bros Vitaphone short that promoted "Girls...Songs....Laughs." No full print exists but the Library of Congress has acquired one musical sequence. ...
Genre :

Officer Harry Murphy

1931-09-05 6.724

Street Scene

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Al (uncredited)

1934-09-01 0

The Human Side

The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children. ...
Genre :Drama

Motorist (uncredited)

1935-08-02 6.7

Every Night at Eight

Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Messenger (uncredited)

1935-03-29 5.4

Naughty Marietta

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love. ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Judy's Father 'Pop' (uncredited)

1936-11-28 3.8

Every Sunday

Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts. To stop this from hap ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Pvt. Henderson

1937-06-26 6.2

Another Dawn

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself i ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

Reporter (uncredited)

1931-10-31 6.6

Platinum Blonde

Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creat ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Farm Worker for Anna (uncredited)

1933-11-25 4.3

The World Changes

Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather. ...
Genre :Drama