Hartley Power

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1894-03-14 (72 years old)

Deathday

1966-01-29

Place of Birth

New York City, New York

Hartley Power

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Hartley Power (1894–1966) was an American-born British film and television actor.  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; the chief of the news agency that Gregory Peck worked for in Roman Holiday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hartley Power   licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1953

Roman Holiday

as Mr. Hennessy

1936

Jury's Evidence

as Edgar Trent

1945

Dead of Night

as Sylvester Kee (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")

1936

Where There's a Will

as Duke Wilson

1941

Atlantic Ferry

as Samuel 'Sam' Cunard

1939

Murder Will Out

as Campbell

1940

A Window in London

as Max Preston

1945

The Man from Morocco

as Col. Bagley

1933

Yes, Mr. Brown

as Mr Brown

1934

1934

Road House

as Dick D'Arcy

1934

Evergreen

as Treadwell

1933

Leave It to Smith

as John Mortimer

1954

The Million Pound Note

as Lloyd Hastings

1942

Alibi

as Gordon

1934

Aunt Sally

as 'Gloves' Clark

1936

Living Dangerously

as District Attorney Garrett Gale

1931

Down River

as Lingard

1945

The Way to the Stars

as Colonel Page

1954

To Dorothy, a Son

as Cy Daniel

1938

The Return of the Frog

as 'Chicago Dale' Sandford

1953

The Net

as General Adams (uncredited)

1957

1933

Friday the Thirteenth

as American #1

1946

A Girl in a Million

as Colonel Sultzman

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