The 30+ Best Tyrone Power Movies
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1Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles LaughtonThe affable Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) is being tried for the murder of a wealthy woman, and legendary lawyer Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Laughton) has chosen to represent him. Unfortunately, Leonard's alibi depends on the testimony of his callous wife, Christine (Marlene Dietrich) -- who, after the discovery of a legal loophole, makes the shocking decision to appear in court against him. To Sir Wilfrid's surprise, this is only the first in a series of puzzling revelations and reversals.
2Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen GrayRoustabout Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband, Pete (Ian Keith). But when Pete dies, Zeena is forced to take on Stanton as a partner, and he quickly proves more gifted than his predecessor. Ambitious to a fault, Carlisle abandons Zeena and the carny to reinvent himself as "The Great Stanton," wowing high-class audiences in a Chicago hotel.
3Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil RathboneTired of Governor Quintero's (J. Edward Bromberg) exploitation of poor Californians, Don Diego (Tyrone Power) decides to fight back and assumes the identity of Zorro. A masked hero with a sword, Zorro fights on behalf of the people against the corrupt Quintero and his wicked assistant, Captain Pasquale (Basil Rathbone). At the same time, Diego falls for Lolita (Linda Darnell), the governor's niece, and he pursues her while constantly battling to oust Quintero from power.More The Mark of Zorro
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4Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne BaxterAn American fighter pilot, Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power), returns from World War I sickened by the violence and fighting he has witnessed. In search of meaning, he travels to Paris, where he tries to live modestly. However, this leads Larry's fiancée, the status-seeking Isabel Bradley (Gene Tierney), to break off the engagement. But Isabel returns to Larry's life when he becomes romantically involved with Sophie (Anne Baxter), a troubled alcoholic recovering from tragedy.
5Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, Victoria ShawThere are great band leaders -- and then there's Eddy Duchin (Tyrone Power), who becomes an overnight sensation when he plays during the intermission of Leo Reisman's orchestra one night. He gets on stage thanks to a beautiful woman, socialite Marjorie Oelrichs (Kim Novak), with whom Duchin has a passionate, loving and ultimately tragic relationship. After an acclaimed musical career interrupted by World War II, the only challenge left for Duchin is reconnecting with his estranged son.
6Tyrone Power, Don Ameche, Alice FayeHigh schooler Joseph expands the market of his meth-dealing from his local gang to metro Manila.
7Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita HayworthBrash young Spanish peasant Juan Gallardo (Tyrone Power) aspires to follow his dead father's footsteps into the bullring, despite his mother's fears. Bidding his childhood sweetheart Carmen (Linda Darnell) farewell, Juan and his friends travel to Madrid to learn the bullfighting craft. Years later, when Juan's fame as a matador soars, he returns to Seville to marry Carmen. Soon, Juan's head is turned by the elegant temptress Doña Sol De Muira (Rita Hayworth), and his career takes a turn.
8Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar RomeroSet in 16th-century Mexico, this historical adventure follows nobleman Pedro De Vargas (Tyrone Power) as he flees from Spain after offending an Inquisition officer. Pedro joins an expedition to Mexico alongside Cortez (Cesar Romero), an infamous conquistador, who changes the mission from exploration to conquering once they arrive in Mexico. In his journey across Mexico, Pedro falls in love with a beautiful woman (Jean Peters) and repeatedly avoids the clutches of the Inquisition.
9Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird CregarWith the pardon of notorious pirate Henry Morgan by the English King, Caribbean pirates are offered amnesty if they give up their lawless ways. As governor of Jamaica, Morgan picks Captain Jamie Waring to round up the renegade captain Billy Leech. Beautiful Margaret Denby complicates matters for Waring, as her scorn for him is matched only by his love for her.
10Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh MarloweIn the Wild West, the Rawhide way station becomes the center of a hostage situation when four murderous fugitives (Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Jack Elam, George Tobias) take it over in a heist scheme. After killing the stationmaster (Tyrone Power), the criminals keep the only other employee, Sam Todd (Edgar Buchanan), alive to avoid outside suspicion by maintaining a front of normalcy. But Todd and the other hostages, Vinnie Holt (Susan Hayward) and her young niece, plot to make an escape.
11Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy KellyJesse James and his brother Frank swear revenge on the St. Louis Midland Railroad after a company representative kills their mother. The boys begin robbing rail passengers and soon expand their activities to include banks. However, when some of the gang are killed after a tip-off, Jesse considers going straight.
12Tyrone Power, Norma Shearer, John BarrymoreMarie Antoinette is a 1938 film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette. Based upon the 1932 biography of the ill-fated Queen of France by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, it had its Los Angeles premiere at the legendary Carthay Circle Theatre, where the landscaping was specially decorated for the event. The film was the last project of Irving Thalberg who died in 1936 while it was in the planning stage. His widow Norma Shearer remained committed to the project even while her enthusiasm for her film career in general was waning following his death. With a budget close to two million dollars, it was one of the most expensive films of the 1930s, but also one of the biggest successes.
13Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, Freddie BartholomewJonathan Blake (Tyrone Power) is a waiter at Lloyd's Coffee House in the early days of the shipping insurance firm Lloyd's of London. Determined to climb high, he joins a Lloyd's syndicate and becomes rich and successful. A romance with the wife (Madeleine Carroll) of a brusque aristocrat ensues, ending in a climactic duel at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Finding his childhood friend, Lord Nelson, in charge of the naval fleet, Blake acts to help win the Battle of Trafalgar.
14Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda HendrixAndrea Orsini (Tyrone Power) is a dutiful employee of the powerful Italian nobleman Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles). When Orsini is sent to case a region Borgia intends to seize, overseen by the upstanding Count Verano (Felix Aylmer), Orsini begins to doubt his work and question Borgia's scheming ways. Once Orsini falls for Verano's pretty wife (Wanda Hendrix), whom Borgia also has his sights on, Orsini realizes he must finally stand up to his boss, no matter the cost.
15Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas MitchellIn 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway (Joan Fontaine) alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs (Tyrone Power), despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty (Thomas Mitchell), arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
16Gene Tierney, Tyrone Power, George SandersSon of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake is a 1942 adventure film directed by John Cromwell, starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney. The film was adapted from Edison Marshall's 1941 historical novel Benjamin Blake. It was the last film with Frances Farmer before her legal problems and eventual commitments to psychiatric hospitals until 1950.
17The Mississippi Gambler
Anita Ekberg, Tyrone PowerThe Mississippi Gambler is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Rudolph Maté. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording.
18Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard EganIn 1847, Katie O'Neill (Susan Hayward), the vibrant daughter of a wealthy horse-breeding family, falls in love with a farmer named Paul Van Riebeck (Tyrone Power), who unfortunately must leave Ireland and return home. The following year, after marrying another man, Katie and her kin flee to South Africa to escape the potato famine. Life in the new world is fraught with danger, but even more perilous than the native attacks is Von Riebeck's return, which causes Katie's heartstrings to stir.
19Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert FrancisHigh-spirited Irish immigrant Marty Maher (Tyrone Power) is an awkward misfit at West Point until he's taken in as an assistant by kindly athletic director Capt. Herman J. Koehler (Ward Bond). A budding romance that turns into a happy marriage to a fellow Irish immigrant, housemaid Mary O'Donnell (Maureen O'Hara), also helps Maher mellow into a beloved and long-standing fixture at the military academy, where his career as an officer and mentor spans 50 years. This film is based on a true story.
20Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, AnnabellaIn the France during the 1860s, nobleman and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (Tyrone Power) becomes a rival of President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Leon Ames) for the hand of beautiful Countess Eugenie de Montijo (Loretta Young). Exiled to Egypt by the Gallic premier, he falls in love with the French-Egyptian Toni (Annabella) and hits upon the idea of a waterway linking Europe and Asia: the Suez Canal. Despite opposition from Bonaparte and the natives, de Lesseps begins work on the project.
21Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don AmecheIn 1910s San Francisco, concert violinist Roger Grant (Tyrone Power), also known as Alexander, abandons classical music to join a ragtime band with pianist Charlie Dwyer (Don Ameche) and singer Stella Kirby (Alice Faye). Alexander's switch dismays his high society family. As two decades pass and popular music transitions from ragtime to jazz, the ragtime band trio grows both stronger and weaker through love, breakups and war -- all along the rising and falling tide of their musical success.
22Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean JaggerAfter the murder of their founder, Joseph Smith (Vincent Price), members of the Mormon Church flee to the West in search of a place to practice their religion in peace. Leading the way is Brigham Young (Dean Jagger), who brings the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake in Utah. While a tenuous romance develops between Jonathan Kent (Tyrone Power) and Zina Webb (Linda Darnell), harsh conditions and internal divisions among the settlers threaten their survival.More Brigham Young- #46 of 49 onThe Best 1940s Western Movies
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23Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cecile AubryFollowing the 13th-century death of his nobleman father, Walter of Gurnie (Tyrone Power) and his confidant, Tristram (Jack Hawkins), join a caravan led by the North African Bayan (Orson Welles) en route to China. Along the way, the beautiful Maryam (Cecile Aubry), known as the Black Rose, begs Walter to take her to England with him. When the warlord Bayan reveals his intention to invade and subjugate China's advanced society, the trio attempt their escape back to England.
24Tyrone Power, Jonathan Hale, Dorothy LamourAfter finishing college, Bob Cain (Tyrone Power) is on the job hunt. However, the reputation of his embezzling father, Robert Cain Sr. (Dorothy Lamour), precedes him, making it all but impossible to find gainful employment. With few options left, Cain resorts to crime by joining up with the gangster Mickey Dwyer (Edward Arnold) and his gang. Cain's precarious life as a criminal becomes even more so when he falls for Dwyer's girlfriend, Lucky Dubarry (Jonathan Hale).
25Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John SuttonThe story of a naïve young soldier's transformation into a committed patriot, Henry King's wartime romance follows American pilot Tim Baker (Tyrone Power), who somewhat impulsively joins Her Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain. While he isn't English, he does have an anglophile ex-girlfriend (Betty Grable) he desperately wants to impress. When confronted with the gruesome realities of World War II, Tim reassesses his previous motivations and begins to realize just what's at stake.
26Gene Tierney, Tyrone PowerThat Wonderful Urge is a 1948 20th Century Fox screwball comedy film, directed by Robert Sinclair and starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney. It is a remake of Love Is News, which starred Power and Loretta Young.
27Tyrone Power, Ann BlythThe House in the Square, also titled I'll Never Forget You and Man of Two Worlds, is a 1951 fantasy film about an American atomic scientist who is transported to the 18th century, where he falls in love. It starred Tyrone Power and Ann Blyth and was an early film for director Roy Ward Baker. It was adapted from the play Berkeley Square by John L. Balderston, which was also the basis of the 1933 film Berkeley Square. It used a similar technique as The Wizard of Oz, presenting the opening and closing sequences in black-and-white, and the rest of the film in Technicolor.
28Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Cecil KellawayTraveling in Ireland, New York reporter Stephen "Fitz" Fitzgerald (Tyrone Power) befriends a leprechaun named Horace (Cecil Kellaway) by refusing to take his pot of gold. Back home, Fitz takes a job for D.C. Augur (Lee J. Cobb), a publisher with political ambitions and the father of his fiancée (Jayne Meadows). Soon, Horace reappears in Fitz's life, in the guise of a valet, to push him toward a romance with Irish girl Nora (Anne Baxter) and a job that doesn't compromise his principles.
29Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al JolsonAspiring singer Rose Sargent (Alice Faye) meets handsome fellow entertainer Ted Cotter (Al Jolson) and the two rise to fame as partners in the booming Manhattan vaudeville scene. Soon Sargent is courted by charming con man Barton DeWitt Clinton (Tyrone Power). Caught up in the glamor of the spotlight, Sargent ignores Cotter's warnings about Clinton's criminal ways and pursues him anyway -- even as her new beau's crooked reputation begins to threaten her hard-earned success.
30Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George BrentIn 1938, Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy) is a British aristocrat living in India with her crude husband, Lord Esketh (Nigel Bruce). At a lavish party, Edwina is reunited with the womanizing Tom Ransome (George Brent), an old flame who tries to rekindle their relationship. Edwina, however, has her sights set on Major Rama Safti (Tyrone Power), a handsome Indian doctor committed to helping the poor. But after Rama falls for Edwina, a widespread plague threatens their relationship.
