1. William Horatio Powell was an American actor, known primarily for his film career.
22 Facts About William Powell
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William Powell was born in Pittsburgh in 1892, the only child of Nettie Manila and Horatio Warren William Powell, an accountant.
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In 1907, young William Powell moved with his family to Kansas City, Missouri, where he graduated from Central High School four years later.
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In 1912, William Powell left the AADA, and began working in vaudeville and stock companies.
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William Powell began his Hollywood career in 1922, in a production of Sherlock Holmes with John Barrymore.
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William Powell performed as Francis I in When Knighthood Was in Flower with Marion Davies.
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William Powell remained under contract to Paramount throughout the 1920s, before signing with Warner Bros.
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William Powell portrayed a vengeful film director in the silent movie The Last Command.
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William Powell's first starring role was Philo Vance in The Canary Murder Case.
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William Powell appeared as Nick Charles in six Thin Man films, beginning with The Thin Man in 1934, based upon Dashiell Hammett's novel.
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In 1937, William Powell received his second Academy Award nomination for the comedy My Man Godfrey.
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In 1936, Harlow and William Powell appeared in Libeled Lady, and they became romantically involved off-set.
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William Powell gave her a handsome ring, but did not ask her to marry him, so she referred to it as her "unengagement ring".
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William Powell received his third Academy Award nomination in 1947 for his role as Clarence Day Sr.
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William Powell's son became a television writer and producer before a period of ill health and depression led to his suicide in 1968.
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William Powell was devastated by her death in an airplane crash in 1942.
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William Powell was romantically involved with Jean Harlow, his co-star in Reckless, until her unexpected death from illness in 1937.
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On January 6,1940, three weeks after they met, William Powell married his third wife, actress Diana Lewis, who cancelled her film career to be his full-time wife.
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William Powell underwent surgery and experimental radium treatment, which put the disease in full remission within two years.
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William Powell died in Palm Springs, California, on March 5,1984, at the age of 91 from pneumonia.
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William Powell is buried at the Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California, near his third wife, Diana Lewis, and his only child, William David Powell.
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William Powell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1636 Vine Street.