Actors - Tyrone Power, Sr.

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Frederick Tyrone Edmond Power (May 2, 1869 – December 23, 1931) was an English born American stage and screen actor, who acted under the name Tyrone Power.

Early life

Born in London in 1869, the son of Harold Littledale Power and Ethel Lavenu. His father Harold had worked as a singer and actor before marriage most notably in Edmund Yates' "Invitations" at Egyptian Hall, London, 1862–1863. Harold had then turned to business, becoming a wine merchant, and later a mine agent and engineer. He was the youngest son of the Irish actor Tyrone Power, from whom his son, grandson, and great grandson would later take their stage names. His mother Ethel Lavenu, an actress was the third daughter of conductor and composer Lewis Henry Lavenu.

Frederick Power, as he was then known, studied at Dover College with his brother George, who would later accompany him on tour in America as Littledale Power. In 1883 at the age of 14 he was sent from England to Florida by his parents to learn citrus planting.

Career

After a couple of years Power left his farm work and joined a theatre stock company at St. Augustine, Florida, debuting as Gibson in Charles Hawtrey's The Private Secretary on November 29, 1886 aged 17. After an extremely prosperous 30 years of acting on the stage and touring around the world, Power moved into Silent Film in 1914. Initially playing the leading man in movies, he soon switched to playing villains and proved highly successful. In 1930, Power had a final great role as the villainous wagon driver Red Flack in Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail
, which provided an unknown John Wayne with his first starring role. Power died of a heart attack in the arms of his 17-year-old son at the end of the next year. He was 62.

He is now usually referred to as Tyrone Power, Sr., to distinguish him from his even more famous son, the Hollywood star also called Tyrone Power, who would also die of a heart attack at a young age.

Stage appearances

Filmography

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