William Powell

Born: July 29, 1892, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1922: Sherlock Holmes, When Knighthood Was In Flower, Outcast

1923: The Bright Shawl, Under the Red Robe

1924: Dangerous Money, Romola

1925: Too Many Kisses, Faint Perfume, My Lady’s Lips, The Beautiful City

1926: White Mice, Sea Horses, Desert Gold, The Runaway, Aloma of the South Seas, Beau Geste, The Great Gatsby, Tin Gods

1927: New York, Love’s Greatest Mistake, Senorita, Special Delivery, Time to Love, Paid To Love, Nevada, She’s A Sheik

1928: The Last Command, Beau Sabreur, Feel My Pulse, Partners In Crime, The Dragnet, The Vanishing Pioneer, Forgotten Faces, Interference

1929: The Canary Murder Case, The Four Feathers, The Greene Murder Case, Charming Sinners, Pointed Heels

1930: Behind the Make-Up, Street of Chance, The Benson Murder Case, Paramount On Parade, Shadow of the Law, For The Defense

1931: Man of the World, Ladies’ Man, The Road To Singapore

1932: High Pressure, Jewell Robbery, One Way Passage, Lawyer Man

1933: Private Detective 62, Double Harness, The Kennel Murder Case

1934: Fashions of 1934, Manhattan Melodrama, The Thin Man (Oscar Nomination: Best Actor), The Key, Evelyn Prentice

1935: Star of Midnight, Reckless, Escapade, Rendezvous

1936: The Great Ziegfeld, The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, My Man Godfrey (Oscar Nomination: Best Actor), Libeled Lady, After the Thin Man

1937: The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The Emperor’s Candlesticks, Double Wedding

1938: The Baroness and the Butler

1940: I Love You Again

1942: Crossroads

1943: The Youngest Profession

1944: The Heavenly Body, The Thin Man Goes Home

1946: The Hoodlum Saint, The Great Morgan

1947: Life With Father (Oscar Nomination: Best Actor), Song of the Thin Man, The Senator Was Indiscreet

1948: Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

1949: Take One False Step, Dancing In The Dark

1951: It’s A Big Country: An American Anthology

1952: The Treasure of Lost Canyon

Died: March 5, 1984, Palm Springs, California.

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