Hartley Power
{{Short description|British actor (1894–1966)}}
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| name = Hartley Power
| image = Actor_Hartley_Power.jpg
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| birth_date = 14 March 1894
| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1966|1|29|1894|3|14}}
| death_place = Brighton, England
| spouse = Betty Paul
(m. 1945–1955; divorced){{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8374534/Betty-Paul.html|title=Betty Paul|website=The Telegraph|date=10 March 2011 }}
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| yearsactive = 1922–1957
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Hartley Power (14 March 1894 – 29 January 1966) was an American-born British {{citation needed|date=September 2017}}film and television actor, who made his Broadway debut in Dolly Jordan in 1922.{{cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/hartley-power-56493|title=Hartley Power – Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB|first=The Broadway|last=League|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/16448|title=Hartley Power|publisher=|access-date=2010-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018144855/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/16448|archive-date=2012-10-18|url-status=dead}} He is best remembered for two roles: "Sylvester Kee" the ventriloquist who is shot and almost killed by "Maxwell Frere" (Michael Redgrave) as a rival for his dummy's "affections" in Dead of Night and Mr. Hennessy, the chief of the news agency that Gregory Peck worked for in Roman Holiday.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/dead-of-night-v12733/cast-crew|title=Dead of Night (1945) - Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer - Cast and Crew - AllMovie|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/roman-holiday-v41976/cast-crew|title=Roman Holiday (1953) - William Wyler - Cast and Crew - AllMovie|publisher=}}
Power died in a Brighton nursing home on 29 January 1966, at the age of 71.{{Cite news|date=31 January 1966|title=Mr. Hartley Power|page=12|work=The Times|issue=56543}}{{Cite news|date=3 February 1966|title=Obituary HARTLEY POWER|page=15|work=The Stage|issue=4425|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001180/19660203/132/0015|url-access=subscription|access-date=24 April 2021|via=British Newspaper Archive}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1931
| Lingard | |
| rowspan="4"| 1933
| John Mortimer | |
| Yes, Mr Brown
| Mr Brown | |
| Friday the Thirteenth
| An American Tourist | |
| Aunt Sally
| 'Gloves' Clark | Released as Along Came Sally in USA |
| rowspan="3"| 1934
| Dick D'Arcy | |
| Evergreen
| Treadwell | |
| The Camels are Coming
| Nicholas | |
| rowspan="3"| 1936
| Edgar Trent | |
| Living Dangerously
| District Attorney | |
| Where There's a Will
| Duke Wilson | |
| rowspan="2"| 1938
| Broadway | | TV film |
| The Return of the Frog
| 'Chicago Dale' Sandford | |
| rowspan="2"| 1939
| Al | |
| Murder Will Out
| Campbell | |
| rowspan="2"| 1940
| Max Preston | Released as Lady in Distress in USA |
| Return to Yesterday
| Regan | |
| 1941
| Samuel 'Sam' Cunard | |
| 1942
| Alibi | Gordon | |
| rowspan="3"| 1945
| Colonel Bagley | |
| The Way to the Stars
| Col. Page | Released as Johnny in the Clouds in USA |
| Dead of Night
| Sylvester Kee | |
| 1946
| Colonel Sultzman | |
| 1950
| Joe Erdman | TV film |
| rowspan="2"| 1952
| George Moffat | TV film |
| The Armchair Detective
| Nicco | |
| rowspan="2"| 1953
| The Net | General Adams | Uncredited, released as Project M7 in USA |
| Roman Holiday
| Mr Hennessy | |
| rowspan="2"| 1954
| Lloyd Hastings | Released as Man with a Million in USA |
| To Dorothy a Son
| Cy Daniel | Released as Cash on Delivery in USA |
| 1957
| Bradshaw | |
References
External links
- {{IMDb name|0694403}}
- {{IBDB name|56493}}
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