Hartley Power

Hartley Power (14 March 1894 – 29 January 1966) was an American-born British ^{[citation needed]}film and television actor, who made his Broadway debut in Dolly Jordan in 1922.^[2][3] 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.^[4][5]

Hartley Power
Born	14 March 1894 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	29 January 1966(1966-01-29) (aged 71) Brighton, England
Years active	1922–1957
Spouse(s)	Betty Paul (m. 1945–1955; divorced)[1]

Power died in a Brighton nursing home on 29 January 1966, at the age of 71.^[6][7]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1931	Down River	Lingard
1933	Leave It to Smith	John Mortimer
	Yes, Mr Brown	Mr Brown
	Friday the Thirteenth	An American Tourist
	Aunt Sally	'Gloves' Clark	Released as Along Came Sally in USA
1934	Road House	Dick D'Arcy
	Evergreen	Treadwell
	The Camels are Coming	Nicholas
1936	Jury's Evidence	Edgar Trent
	Living Dangerously	District Attorney
	Where There's a Will	Duke Wilson
1938	Broadway		TV film
	The Return of the Frog	'Chicago Dale' Sandford
1939	Just like a Woman	Al
	Murder Will Out	Campbell
1940	A Window in London	Max Preston	Released as Lady in Distress in USA
	Return to Yesterday	Regan
1941	Atlantic Ferry	Samuel 'Sam' Cunard
1942	Alibi	Gordon
1945	The Man from Morocco	Colonel Bagley
	The Way to the Stars	Col. Page	Released as Johnny in the Clouds in USA
	Dead of Night	Sylvester Kee
1946	A Girl in a Million	Colonel Sultzman
1950	Carissima	Joe Erdman	TV film
1952	The Man with the Gun	George Moffat	TV film
	The Armchair Detective	Nicco
1953	The Net	General Adams	Uncredited, released as Project M7 in USA
	Roman Holiday	Mr Hennessy
1954	The Million Pound Note	Lloyd Hastings	Released as Man with a Million in USA
	To Dorothy a Son	Cy Daniel	Released as Cash on Delivery in USA
1957	Island in the Sun	Bradshaw

References

1. "Betty Paul". The Telegraph. 10 March 2011.
2. League, The Broadway. "Hartley Power – Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB".
3. "Hartley Power". Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
4. "Dead of Night (1945) - Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer - Cast and Crew - AllMovie".
5. "Roman Holiday (1953) - William Wyler - Cast and Crew - AllMovie".
6. "Mr. Hartley Power". The Times. No. 56543. 31 January 1966. p. 12.
7. "Obituary HARTLEY POWER". The Stage. No. 4425. 3 February 1966. p. 15. Retrieved 24 April 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.

External links

• Hartley Power at IMDb
• Hartley Power at the Internet Broadway Database