Dick Powell

Birth Name:

Richard Ewing Powell

Birth Place:

Mountain View, Arkansas, United States

Profession

Actor, Soundtrack, Producer, Director

In 1946, he won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture
In August 1945, he got married to screen actress June Allyson
Is the father of Hollywood make-up artist Ellen Powell
Because of filming "The Conqueror" near a nuclear test site, he, like many of the people involved with the feature, eventually died of cancer
Got his start in entertainment as a singer with teh Charlie Davis Orchestra
Was the founder of the television production company Four Star Television
Was the original owner of Humphre Bogarts famed sailing boat Santana

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