Michael Powell
Born: 1905-09-30 in Bekesbourne, Kent, England
Died: 1990-02-19
Known For: Directing
Biography
Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. They worked together under the name of "The Archers" and produced a series of classic British films, notably The Thief of Bagdad (1940), 49th Parallel (1941), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (1946, also called Stairway to Heaven), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). His controversial 1960 film Peeping Tom, however, was so vilified that his career was seriously damaged.
Filmography
2025
- AMR: Dying to Change the World ... (Sound)
2024
- Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Inside Rupert Pupkin as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self (voice) (archive sound)
2003
- Chaplin Today: A Woman of Paris as Self (archive sound)
1997
- A Very British Psycho as Himself
1994
- The Line, the Cross & the Curve ... (Thanks)
1992
- Orlando ... (Thanks)
1990
- I Hired a Contract Killer ... (In Memory Of)
- The Scorsese Machine as Self
1983
- Anna Pavlova ... (Editor)
1981
- A Pretty British Affair as Interviewee
1978
- Return to the Edge of the World as Self
1972
- The Boy Who Turned Yellow ... (Director)
1969
- Age of Consent ... (Director)
1968
- Sebastian ... (Producer)
1966
- They're a Weird Mob ... (Director)
1963
- Espionage ... (Director)
- Bluebeard's Castle ... (Director)
1961
- The Defenders ... (Director)
- The Queen's Guards ... (Producer)
1960
- Peeping Tom as Mark's Father - A.N. Lewis (uncredited)
1959
- Honeymoon as Guide Describing the Lovers of Teruel (voice) (uncredited)
1957
- Ill Met by Moonlight ... (Director)
1956
- The Battle of the River Plate ... (Director)
1955
- Oh... Rosalinda!! ... (Director)
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice ... (Director)
1951
- The Tales of Hoffmann ... (Director)
- Aila – Pohjolan tytär ... (Producer)
1950
- Gone to Earth ... (Director)
- The Elusive Pimpernel ... (Director)
1949
- The Small Back Room ... (Director)
1948
- The Red Shoes ... (Producer)
1947
- Black Narcissus ... (Director)
- The End of the River ... (Producer)
1946
- A Matter of Life and Death ... (Director)
1945
- I Know Where I'm Going! ... (Director)
1944
- A Canterbury Tale ... (Director)
- The Volunteer as Self
1943
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ... (Director)
- The Silver Fleet ... (Producer)
1942
- One of Our Aircraft Is Missing as Despatching Officer
1941
- 49th Parallel ... (Director)
- An Airman's Letter to His Mother ... (Director)
1940
- The Thief of Bagdad ... (Director)
- Contraband ... (Director)
1939
- The Spy in Black ... (Director)
- Smith ... (Director)
- The Lion Has Wings ... (Director)
1937
- The Edge of the World as Mr. Graham - the Yachtsman (uncredited)
1936
- Crown v. Stevens ... (Director)
- The Man Behind the Mask ... (Director)
- The Brown Wallet ... (Director)
1935
- Her Last Affaire ... (Director)
- The Price of a Song ... (Director)
- The Phantom Light ... (Director)
- The Girl in the Crowd ... (Director)
- Lazybones ... (Director)
- Someday ... (Director)
- Oh, Daddy! ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Love Test ... (Director)
1934
- Something Always Happens ... (Director)
- The Fire Raisers ... (Story)
- Red Ensign ... (Director)
- The Night of the Party ... (Director)
1933
- Perfect Understanding ... (Screenplay)
- Born Lucky ... (Director)
1932
- Hotel Splendide as Bugging Device Engineer (uncredited)
- C.O.D. ... (Director)
- His Lordship ... (Director)
- My Friend the King ... (Director)
- The Rasp ... (Director)
1931
- Two Crowded Hours ... (Director)
- Rynox ... (Screenplay)
- The Star Reporter ... (Director)
- 77 Park Lane ... (Writer)
- 77, rue Chalgrin ... (Screenplay)
1930
- Caste ... (Writer)
1929
- Blackmail ... (Assistant Camera)
- The Compulsory Husband as Man
1928
- Champagne ... (Set Designer)
- The First Born ... (Still Photographer)
- A Knight in London ... (Editor)
1927
- The Garden of Allah as A Tourist
- Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 11: Scents and Nonsense as Cicero Baedeker Symp
- Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 2: A Nasty Jar as Cicero Baedeker Symp
- Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 9: Cold Feats as Cicero Baedeker Symp
- Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 10: Fauny Business as Cicero Baedeker Symp
- Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 1: Spooky Islands as Cicero Baedeker Symp
- Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 6 as Cicero Baedeker Symp
- Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 12 as Cicero Baedeker Symp
1926
- The Magician as Man with Balloon at Snake Charming (uncredited)