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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.

Person · Open Library

Born
1951
Works
7

Top works

  • Advanced marker techniques
  • Advanced marker techniques
  • Design rendering techniques
  • Marker rendering techniques
  • Presentation techniques, a guide to drawing and presenting design ideas

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Brazil
Active from
1937-08-06
Active to
2000-09-26
bossa novajazzlatinlatin jazzsamba-jazz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
12,372
Total plays
54,035

Tags

jazzoldiesBig BandAllamerican

Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (1904 – 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dick+Powell">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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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
Mildred Maund ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1925 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1932 ) ​ Joan Blondell ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1936 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1944 ) ​ June Allyson ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1945 ) ​

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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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dick Powell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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