Michael Powell
- film director
- actor
- screenwriter
- film producer
- writer
- director
- Born 1905-09-30
- Died 1990-02-19 (aged 84)
- Nationality United Kingdom
- Years active 1931–1983
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Filmography
See full filmography| Role | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Peeping Tom | Movie | 55 |
Career timeline
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1905 age 0
Born1929 age 24
1940 age 35
1947 age 42
1948 age 43
1960 age 55
1990 age 84
Died
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Quotes
I live cinema. I chose the cinema when I was very young, sixteen years old, and from then on my memories virtually coincide with the history of the cinema ... I'm not a director with a personal style, I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through cinema; everything that I've had in the way of education has been through the cinema; insofar as I'm interested in images, in books, in music, it's all due to the cinema.
Michael Powell (director), CC BY-SA 4.0
I got my first assignment as a director in 1927. I was slim, arrogant, intelligent, foolish, shy, cocksure, dreamy and irritating. Today, I'm no longer slim.
Michael Powell (director), CC BY-SA 4.0
[of his wife Frankie] In fact, if only I had been the perfect husband, she would have been the perfect wife.
Michael Powell (director), CC BY-SA 4.0
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Personal details
- Nationalities
- United Kingdom
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Languages
- English
- Years active
- 1931–1983
- Notable works
- Peeping Tom, The Tales of Hoffmann, Gone to Earth, The Small Back Room, The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death, I Know Where I'm Going!, A Canterbury Tale, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, An Airman's Letter to His Mother, 49th Parallel, The Thief of Bagdad, The Edge of the World
- Education
- Dulwich College