Tyrone Power

Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. (May 5, 1914–November 15, 1958), usually credited simply as Tyrone Power, was an American film actor who appeared in dozens of films in the 1930s to 1950s, usually as a swashbuckling hero, but often as a protagonist with a dark side.

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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1914, the only son of English-born Frederick Tyrone Edmond Power and Helen Emma "Patia" Reaume, who were both actors. Power was descended from a long theatrical line going back to his great-grandfather, the celebrated Irish actor Tyrone Power. He followed his father Tyrone_Power, Sr. into acting in American films at the age of just 11 in School for Wives, 1925 eventually attaining top billing at the age of 22 when he starred in the acclaimed Lloyd's_of_London, 1936. He rapidly became a matinee idol, like Rudolph Valentino before him, whose fans followed his off-screen activities (including playing polo) as avidly as his films.

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Despite his Roman Catholicism, Power divorced his first two wives. His extramarital affairs contributed to the failure of his marriages. During World War II, Power served as an aviator in the United States Marine Corps.

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Tyrone Power died from a heart attack in Madrid, Spain, while filming Solomon and Sheba in 1958, aged 44 (and was replaced in that movie by Yul Brynner). He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California.

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