Movie Database

Movies by Actor - William Powell (93 [Missing: 25])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
OutcastNA1922 \N Not Available
Sherlock HolmesA young Sherlock Holmes seeks to bring down the criminal mastermind Moriarty as he solves a crime involving a blackmailed prince.1922Albert ParkerDrama,Mystery5.7 (707 votes)8520230929
When Knighthood Was in FlowerMary Tudor, sister of England's Henry VIII, causes a stir by falling in love with a guardsman below her class.1922Robert G. VignolaDrama,Romance6.4 (1K votes)12020211228
The Bright ShawlNA1923 Adventure,Drama Not Available
Under the Red RobeNA1923 Drama,History Not Available
Dangerous MoneyNA1924 Drama Not Available
RomolaIn Renaissance Florence, Tito, a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar, wins the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work. He has a beautiful daughter named Romola. Tito flirts wit1924Henry KingDrama,History6.2 (214 votes)10220211228
The Beautiful CityNA1925 Drama Not Available
Faint PerfumeNA1925 Drama Not Available
My Lady's LipsNA1925 Crime,Drama Not Available
Too Many KissesRichard Gaylord, Jr. is a modern Lothario who has so many sweethearts that his father does not know what to do with him. Tired of paying to get his son out of one romantic entanglement after another, the elder Gaylord sends his so...1925Paul SloaneAdventure,Comedy,Drama6.4 (215 votes)6020220723
Aloma of the South SeasNA1926 Comedy,Drama,Romance Not Available
Beau GesteMichael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebell1926Herbert BrenonAction,Adventure,Drama7.1 (397 votes)10120211228
Desert GoldNA1926 Western Not Available
The Great GatsbyNA1926 Drama Not Available
The RunawayNA1926 Drama Not Available
Sea HorsesNA1926 Drama,Romance Not Available
Tin GodsNA1926 Drama Not Available
White MiceNA1926 Action,Adventure,Drama Not Available
Love's Greatest MistakeNA1927 Drama Not Available
NevadaA gunslinger looking for a quiet place to settle down becomes entangled in a romantic triangle and the hunt for a gang of cattle rustlers.1927John WatersWestern6.2 (122 votes)7020211228
New YorkNA1927 Drama Not Available
Paid to LoveAn American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore up the country's weak economy in order to maximize the return on their investment. Towards that end he befriends the country's king and th1927Howard HawksComedy,Romance6.3 (136 votes)7620211228
SeñoritaNA1927 Action,Comedy Not Available
She's a SheikNA1927 Adventure,Romance Not Available
Special DeliveryAn inept Secret Service agent goes undercover as a mailman to catch a notorious criminal and impress his father, his boss.1927Roscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleComedy6.5 (56 votes)6020211228
Time to LoveNA1927 Comedy Not Available
Beau SabreurNA1928 Adventure,Romance Not Available
The DragnetNA1928 Crime,Drama Not Available
Feel My PulseA rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.1928Gregory La CavaComedy,Crime,Romance6.9 (188 votes)6320211228
Forgotten FacesNA1928 Crime,Drama,Mystery Not Available
Four Feathers, TheWhen British officer Harry resigns from his regiment, he is labeled a coward by his family and friends. Harry receives four white feathers as a mark of a coward. In order to redeem himself and win the heart of his fiancé back and the1929Merian C. Cooper, Lothar Mendes, Ernest B. SchoedsackAdventure,Drama,Romance6.9 (302 votes)8120211228
InterferenceParamount's 1st ALL TALKIE Reported killed in action, Philip Voaze(William Powell) lives under an assumed name in London. Deborah Kane(Evelyn Brent) a former love, discovers him and tries to blackmail his wife, Faith(Doris Kenyon), w1928Lothar Mendes, Roy PomeroyCrime,Drama,Thriller7.0 (122 votes)8320211228
Last Command, TheA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.1928Josef von SternbergDrama,Romance,War8.0 (3.8K votes)8820211228
Partners in CrimeNA1928 Action,Adventure,Comedy Not Available
The Vanishing PioneerNA1928 Drama,Western Not Available
Canary Murder Case, TheA beautiful showgirl, nicknamed 'the Canary', is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and soon ends up dead. But who killed 'the Canary'. All the suspects who knew her had been used by her. The only witness to the cr1929Malcolm St. Clair, Frank TuttleCrime,Mystery6.0 (680 votes)8220211228
Charming SinnersSet in London, Kathryn Miles's marriage is threatened when she discovers her husband's longstanding affair with her best friend but surprises everyone when she uses it to create a new life for herself.1929Robert Milton, Dorothy ArznerDrama,Romance6.3 (84 votes)6620211228
Greene Murder Case, TheAt the end of each year, the extremely wealthy but odious Greene family gets together at the spooky old family castle to establish terms of a will, though they despise each other. This year, they start being mysteriously murdered one1929Frank TuttleCrime,Mystery6.5 (370 votes)6920211228
Pointed HeelsBig-name musical performers experience everyday problems and disappointments during their offstage hours.1929A. Edward SutherlandComedy,Musical6.0 (123 votes)6120211228
Behind the Make-UpGardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.1930Robert Milton, Dorothy Arzner, Henry Hathaway, Rollo LloydDrama5.9 (134 votes)7020211228
Benson Murder Case, TheA ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.1930Frank TuttleCrime,Mystery,Thriller6.2 (367 votes)6520211228
For The DefenseWilliam Powell plays William Foster, a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, t1930John CromwellCrime,Drama,Romance6.4 (417 votes)6520211228
Shadow Of The LawJohn Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses1930Louis J. GasnierCrime,Drama,Mystery6.6 (108 votes)6920211228
Street of ChanceA big-time, but honest gambler has to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps, and taking up gambling.1930John CromwellCrime,Drama,Romance6.6 (262 votes)7520211228
Street of ChanceA big-time, but honest gambler has to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps, and taking up gambling.1930John CromwellCrime,Drama,Romance6.6 (262 votes)7520211228
Ladies' ManA society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."1931Lothar MendesDrama5.9 (174 votes)7020211228
Man of the WorldA young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.1931Richard Wallace, Edward GoodmanDrama,Romance6.1 (924 votes)7420211228
Road to Singapore, TheGossip, snobbery, mistrust, divorce and a mail-order engagement dominate the lives of the British upper class living in the plantation colonies of Southeast Asia.1931Alfred E. GreenDrama,Romance6.5 (302 votes)6920211228
High PressureGar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. He sets up the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and persuades a lot of people to inv1932Mervyn LeRoyComedy6.7 (575 votes)7320211228
Jewel RobberyA gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers.1932William DieterleComedy,Crime,Romance7.2 (2.1K votes)6820211228
Lawyer ManIdealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully beats high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley in a murder case. Bentley asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive w1932William DieterleDrama,Romance6.5 (916 votes)7220211228
One Way PassageA terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.1932Tay GarnettComedy,Drama,Romance7.5 (3.7K votes)6720211228
Double HarnessA woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.1933John CromwellComedy,Drama6.8 (1.2K votes)6920211228
Kennel Murder Case, ThePhilo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.1933Michael CurtizCrime,Drama,Mystery6.9 (3.4K votes)7320211228
Private Detective 62A down-and-out private eye falls for a woman he has been hired to frame.1933Michael CurtizDrama6.6 (779 votes)6620211228
Evelyn PrenticeThe neglected wife of a high profile attorney dallies with a unscrupulous womanizer and finds herself involved in blackmail and murder.1934William K. HowardDrama,Mystery,Romance6.9 (1.6K votes)7920211228
Fashions of 1934When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.1934William DieterleComedy,Drama,Musical6.9 (1.6K votes)7820211228
Key, TheBritish officer is assigned to duty in Ireland and gets embroiled in Anglo-Irish battles and old girl friend who is now married to an Irishman. Powell learns more than he wanted to know about "the Irish Problem."1934Michael CurtizDrama5.9 (457 votes)7120211228
Manhattan MelodramaThe friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.1934W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway, George CukorCrime,Drama,Romance7.1 (4K votes)9320211228
Thin Man, TheFormer detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.1934W.S. Van DykeComedy,Crime,Mystery8.0 (28.8K votes)9120211228
EscapadeNA1935 Comedy,Romance Not Available
RecklessWealthy Bob Harrison buys all the seats in the theatre to watch Mona Leslie's musical by himself. He loves her, her agent Ned Riley loves her. Conflict ensues.1935Victor FlemingComedy,Drama,Musical6.4 (1.2K votes)9720211228
RendezvousPowell plays an American cryptologist who tangles with German spies while falling in love.1935William K. Howard, Sam WoodComedy,War6.6 (859 votes)9420211228
Star of MidnightWhen a dancer disappears from a theater, her former lover asks lawyer Clay Dalzell to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.1935Stephen RobertsComedy,Mystery,Romance6.7 (1.4K votes)9020211228
After The Thin ManPrivate detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.1936W.S. Van DykeComedy,Crime,Mystery7.7 (10.6K votes)11220211228
Ex-Mrs Bradford, TheA wealthy mystery writer uses her doctor ex-husband's non-payment of alimony to coerce him into a reconciliation.1936Stephen RobertsComedy,Mystery7.0 (1.7K votes)8220211228
Great Ziegfeld, TheThe ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.1936Robert Z. LeonardDrama,Musical6.7 (7.9K votes)17620211228
Libeled LadyWhen a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.1936Jack ConwayComedy,Romance7.8 (7.8K votes)9820211228
My Man GodfreyA scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.1936Gregory La CavaComedy,Drama,Romance8.0 (23.2K votes)9420211228
Double WeddingTwo sisters of differing temperaments, the younger's milquetoast fiancé, and a free-spirited artist in an auto trailer are all experiencing romantic complications.1937Richard ThorpeComedy,Romance7.0 (2.2K votes)8720211228
Emperor's Candlesticks, TheA male Polish secret agent and a female Russian secret-police spy smuggle messages to St. Petersburg in candlesticks. While chasing after stolen candlesticks they discover each other's identity and fall in love.1937George FitzmauriceDrama,History,Romance6.6 (669 votes)8920211228
Last of Mrs. CheyneyTwo English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.1937Richard Boleslawski, Dorothy Arzner, George FitzmauriceComedy,Drama,Romance6.3 (1.5K votes)9820211228
Baroness and The Butler, TheA butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.1938Walter LangComedy,Drama,Romance6.6 (591 votes)8020211228
Another Thin ManAn explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out.1939W.S. Van DykeComedy,Crime,Mystery7.4 (7.2K votes)10320211228
I Love You AgainBoring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.1940W.S. Van DykeComedy,Romance7.5 (3.3K votes)9920211228
Love CrazyA wife suspecting infidelity starts divorce proceedings, so the husband pretends to be insane in order to delay the divorce and clear up the misunderstanding.1941Jack ConwayComedy,Romance7.4 (3K votes)9920211228
Shadow of the Thin ManA jockey has been shot dead at the race track. Famous detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora happen to be on the scene and Lt. Abrahams asks for Nick's expert help.1941W.S. Van DykeDrama,Mystery7.3 (5.9K votes)9720211228
CrossroadsAn amnesiac French diplomat is blackmailed for crimes that he committed before he lost his memory.1942Jack ConwayCrime,Drama,Film-Noir6.7 (1.4K votes)8320211228
Heavenly Body, TheThe beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.1944Alexander Hall, Vincente MinnelliComedy,Romance6.2 (868 votes)9520211228
Thin Man Goes Home, TheNick and Nora Charles visit Nicks parents in Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs. The town is a very peaceful and law-abiding one but Nick soon has a murder case on his hands.1944Richard ThorpeComedy,Crime,Film-Noir7.4 (5.5K votes)10020211228
Hoodlum Saint, TheA former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and pow1946Norman TaurogDrama,Music6.2 (602 votes)9120211228
Ziegfeld FolliesThe late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. looks down from Heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.1945Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, George SidneyComedy,Musical6.5 (3.2K votes)11020211228
Life With FatherA straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.1947Michael CurtizComedy,Family7.2 (5.3K votes)11820211228
Senator Was Indiscreet, TheA bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.1947George S. KaufmanComedy6.5 (576 votes)8820211228
Song Of The Thin ManNick and Nora Charles are on a gambling boat when someone is murdered. The two main suspects are at large and come to Nick for help. Nick turns them into the police but then sets out to figure out the mystery.1947Edward BuzzellComedy,Crime,Musical7.0 (5K votes)8620211228
Mr. Peabody and the MermaidWhile on vacation in the Caribbean with his wife, a middle-aged man unexpectedly finds, and falls in love with, a mermaid.1948Irving PichelComedy,Fantasy,Romance6.4 (1.2K votes)8920211228
Dancing in the DarkConceited actor Emery Slade, on a mission to recruit a Broadway star for Fox, picks unknown Julie Clarke instead.1949Irving ReisComedy,Musical,Romance5.4 (194 votes)9220211228
Take One False StepDuring a conference-trip to L.A., an academic runs into an old-flame and into trouble with the police when she disappears, presumed murdered.1949Chester ErskineCrime,Drama,Mystery6.4 (425 votes)9420220414
Treasure of Lost Canyon, TheIn California, a boy and his adoptive father find an outlaw's hidden treasure but the news leaks out, sending unscrupulous characters after the gold.1952Ted TetzlaffAdventure,Drama,Western6.3 (205 votes)8220211228
Girl Who Had Everything, TheAttorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.1953Richard ThorpeDrama,Romance5.6 (699 votes)6920211228
How to Marry a MillionaireThree women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.1953Jean NegulescoComedy,Drama,Romance6.9 (22K votes)9520211228
Mister RobertsIn the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irritatio1955John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua LoganComedy,Drama,War7.7 (16.4K votes)12320211228