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Also Known As	William Horatio Powell
Born	July 29, 1892 • Pittsburgh • Pennsylvania
Died	March 5, 1984 (aged 91) • Palm Springs • California
Notable Family Members	spouse Carole Lombard
Married To	Eileen Wilson (1915–1930) • Diana Lewis (married 1940) • Carole Lombard (1931–1933)
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In)	"Partners in Crime" (1928) • "The Thin Man" (1934) • "Take One False Step" (1949) • "Double Harness" (1933) • "Faint Perfume" (1925) • "The Hoodlum Saint" (1946) • "Under the Red Robe" (1923) • "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953) • "Sherlock Holmes" (1922) • "One Way Passage" (1932) • "The Bright Shawl" (1923) • "Rendezvous" (1935) • "The Girl Who Had Everything" (1953) • "The Kennel Murder Case" (1933) • "The Benson Murder Case" (1930) • "Forgotten Faces" (1928) • "Libeled Lady" (1936) • "It's a Big Country: An American Anthology" (1951) • "The Key" (1934) • "The Youngest Profession" (1943) • "Behind the Make-Up" (1930) • "Paid to Love" (1927) • "Beau Sabreur" (1928) • "Man of the World" (1931) • "Star of Midnight" (1935) • "Reckless" (1935) • "Ziegfeld Follies" (1945) • "Señorita" (1927) • "Paramount on Parade" (1930) • "The Vanishing Pioneer" (1928) • "The Canary Murder Case" (1929) • "The Runaway" (1926) • "The Beautiful City" (1925) • "Fashions of 1934" (1934) • "Tin Gods" (1926) • "White Mice" (1926) • "Another Thin Man" (1939) • "Shadow of the Thin Man" (1941) • "Dangerous Money" (1924) • "Lawyer Man" (1932) • "Mister Roberts" (1955) • "Jewel Robbery" (1932) • "Street of Chance" (1930) • "The Heavenly Body" (1944) • "High Pressure" (1932) • "Beau Geste" (1926) • "Time to Love" (1927) • "After the Thin Man" (1936) • "I Love You Again" (1940) • "Outcast" (1922) • "My Lady's Lips" (1925) • "Desert Gold" (1926) • "Double Wedding" (1937) • "Escapade" (1935) • "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford" (1936) • "Song of the Thin Man" (1947) • "For the Defense" (1930) • "My Man Godfrey" (1936) • "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" (1937) • "The Four Feathers" (1929) • "Special Delivery" (1927) • "The Senator Was Indiscreet" (1947) • "Too Many Kisses" (1925) • "The Thin Man Goes Home" (1944) • "Pointed Heels" (1929) • "Private Detective 62" (1933) • "The Greene Murder Case" (1929) • "Ladies' Man" (1931) • "When Knighthood Was in Flower" (1922) • "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934) • "Crossroads" (1942) • "Aloma of the South Seas" (1926) • "The Dragnet" (1928) • "Nevada" (1927) • "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936) • "The Emperor's Candlesticks" (1937) • "New York" (1927) • "Life with Father" (1947) • "The Great Gatsby" (1926) • "Feel My Pulse" (1928) • "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid" (1948) • "Shadow of the Law" (1930) • "The Road to Singapore" (1931) • "The Treasure of Lost Canyon" (1952) • "Dancing in the Dark" (1949) • "Love's Greatest Mistake" (1927) • "Romola" (1924) • "Love Crazy" (1941) • "The Baroness and the Butler" (1938) • "The Last Command" (1928) • "She's a Sheik" (1927) • "Interference" (1928) • "Evelyn Prentice" (1934) • "Charming Sinners" (1929) • "Sea Horses" (1926)