---
name: "Tom Powers"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-powers"
fi1m_id: "tom-powers"
imdb_id: "nm0694631"
tmdb_id: 14978
wikidata_id: "Q388378"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 July 1890"
died: "9 November 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T02:25:37.849950+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tom Powers

## Identity

Tom Powers

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tom-powers
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tom-powers
- **IMDb ID:** nm0694631
- **TMDB ID:** 14978
- **Wikidata ID:** Q388378
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Powers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q388378, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694631/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14978

Actor. Born 7 July 1890 in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA. Died 9 November 1955.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 July 1890, Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
- **Died:** 9 November 1955
- **Active:** 1944–1953
- **Also known as:** Thomas McCreery Powers
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 92 (1), 1950s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Powers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q388378, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694631/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14978

## Biography

Tom Powers, born Thomas McCreery Powers, was an American actor who worked in theatre, film, radio and television. After training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he appeared in Vitagraph Pictures films from 1911 to 1917 before concentrating on stage work. On Broadway he created the role of Charles Marsden in Eugene O'Neill's *Strange Interlude* (1928) and succeeded Orson Welles as Brutus in the Mercury Theatre production of *Caesar* (1938).

Powers returned to films in 1944 when Billy Wilder cast him as Mr. Dietrichson in *Double Indemnity*. He subsequently appeared in over 60 further film and television roles, often as middle-aged businessmen, military officers or police figures, including Capt. Hendrickson in *The Blue Dahlia* (1946) and Metellus Cimber in *Julius Caesar* (1953). He died in 1955.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Julius Caesar* (1953), Fi1m 76, as Metellus Cimber — [page](https://film.one/film/julius-caesar.md)
- *Double Indemnity* (1944), Fi1m 92, as Mr. Dietrichson — [page](https://film.one/film/double-indemnity.md)

## Complete filmography (76)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Night at the Cinema in 1914* (2014), as (archive footage)
- *Double Jeopardy* (1955), as Harry Sheldon
- *New York Confidential* (1955), as Dist. Atty. Rossi
- *Ten Wanted Men* (1955), as Henry Green
- *The Americano* (1955), as Jim Rogers
- *The Lone Wolf* (1954), series, as Carl Olsen
- *Donovan's Brain* (1953), as Donovan's Washington Advisor
- *I, the Jury* (1953), as Milt Miller
- *Devil's Canyon* (1953), as Joe Holbert (uncredited)
- *Hannah Lee: An American Primitive* (1953), as Sheriff
- *The Last Posse* (1953), as Frank White
- *Julius Caesar* (1953), as Metellus Cimber — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/julius-caesar.md)
- *Scared Stiff* (1953), as Police Lieutenant
- *The Marksman* (1953), as Lt. Governor Watson
- *The Steel Trap* (1952), as Valcourt, Travel Agent
- *Horizons West* (1952), as Frank Tarleton
- *The WAC from Walla Walla* (1952), as General (uncredited)
- *Four Star Playhouse* (1952), series, as Gen. Vincent
- *Adventures of Superman* (1952), series, as Railroad Official
- *We're Not Married!* (1952), as Frank Bush (uncredited)
- *Flesh and Fury* (1952), as Andy Randolph
- *Bal Tabarin* (1952), as Eddie Mendies
- *Denver and Rio Grande* (1952), as Sloan
- *Jet Job* (1952), as Oscar Collins
- *The Fabulous Senorita* (1952), as Delaney
- *Phone Call from a Stranger* (1952), Actor
- *The Well* (1951), as Jim, Mayor
- *The Strip* (1951), as Lt. Detective Bonnabel
- *The Tall Target* (1951), as Simon G. Stroud (uncredited)
- *Fighting Coast Guard* (1951), as Admiral Ryan
- *Again Pioneers* (1950), as Ken Keeler
- *Right Cross* (1950), as Tom Balford
- *Destination Moon* (1950), as General Thayer
- *The Nevadan* (1950), as Bill Martin
- *East Side, West Side* (1949), as Owen Lee
- *Chinatown at Midnight* (1949), as Captain Howard Brown
- *Chicago Deadline* (1949), as Howard
- *Scene of the Crime* (1949), as Umpire Menafoe
- *Special Agent* (1949), as Chief Special Agent Wilcox
- *Mexican Hayride* (1948), as Ed Mason
- *Angel in Exile* (1948), as Warden
- *The Time of Your Life* (1948), as Freddy Blick
- *Station West* (1948), as Captain George Iles
- *Up in Central Park* (1948), as Rogan
- *I Love Trouble* (1948), as Ralph Johnston
- *The Son of Rusty* (1947), as Hugh Mitchell
- *They Won't Believe Me* (1947), as Trenton
- *For the Love of Rusty* (1947), as Hugh Mitchell
- *The Farmer's Daughter* (1947), as Hy Nordick
- *Angel and the Badman* (1947), as Dr. Mangram
- *Two Years Before the Mast* (1946), as Bellamer
- *The Last Crooked Mile* (1946), as Floyd Sorelson
- *Her Adventurous Night* (1946), as Dan Carter
- *The Blue Dahlia* (1946), as Capt. Hendrickson
- *The Chicago Kid* (1945), as Mike Thurber
- *The Phantom Speaks* (1945), as Harvey Bogardus
- *Practically Yours* (1944), as Commander Harry Harpe
- *Double Indemnity* (1944), as Mr. Dietrichson — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/double-indemnity.md)
- *Daisy Doodad's Dial* (1914), as Husband
- *Gertie the Dinosaur* (1914), as Clumsy Copy Boy (uncredited)
- *Cutey Plays Detective* (1913), as The Pal
- *A Window on Washington Park* (1913), as Alan Dale, the Old Man's Nephew
- *Sisters All* (1913), Actor
- *Stenographer Troubles* (1913), as Office Employee
- *A Cure for Pokeritis* (1912), Actor
- *The Signal of Distress* (1912), as George Gordon
- *Saving an Audience* (1912), as John
- *The Cylinder's Secret* (1912), as Richard Johns, Howard's Son
- *An Eventful Elopement* (1912), as Charley Fortune - Mabel's Sweetheart
- *Fortunes of a Composer* (1912), as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
- *Love in the Ghetto* (1912), as Sammy Bertram - Rebecca's Sweetheart
- *The Hieroglyphic* (1912), as Tom Swayne
- *The Illumination* (1912), as Giuseppe
- *The Haunted Rocker* (1912), as Jack Farnum - Madge's suitor
- *A Girl of the West* (1912), as Jones - the Ranch Owner
- *The Girl and the Sheriff* (1911), as The Mountain Boy

## Gallery

- ![Tom Powers](https://film.one/media/person/103482/gallery-7f0cb1331f6d.jpg) Tom Powers — The Theatre Magazine Company, New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Tom-Powers-1922.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![:Title: The Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1912) Description: PREMARC/SERLOC merged record Topics: motion pictures LCCN: 12021059 Identity: motionpictur](https://film.one/media/person/103482/gallery-c57149fdc60d.jpg) :Title: The Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1912) Description: PREMARC/SERLOC merged record Topics: motion pictures LCCN: 12021059 Identity: motionpictur — The Motion Picture Publishing Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/%22Souvenir_Postal_Cards_of_Vitagraph_Players%22_%2225_Cents_a_Dozen_Assorted._the_Entire_Set_as_shown_below_60_Cents._Post_Paid%22_ad_in_The_Motion_Picture_Story_Magazine_%28Feb-Jul_1912%29_%28IA_motionpicturesto03moti%29_%28page_173_crop%29.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Glenn Anders, Tom Powers, and Lynn Fontanne in Strange Interlude (1928)](https://film.one/media/person/103482/gallery-a8051bedefe8.jpg) Glenn Anders, Tom Powers, and Lynn Fontanne in Strange Interlude (1928) — Florence Vandamm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Best_Plays_1927-28-073.jpg/1280px-Best_Plays_1927-28-073.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Portrait photograph of Tom Powers as Brutus in the Mercury Theatre touring production of Caesar. The five-month national tour began January 17, 1938; Powers lat](https://film.one/media/person/103482/gallery-756a37b761b7.jpg) Portrait photograph of Tom Powers as Brutus in the Mercury Theatre touring production of Caesar. The five-month national tour began January 17, 1938; Powers lat — Mercury Theatre; photograph by Lucas and Pritchard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Caesar-Tom-Powers.jpg/1280px-Caesar-Tom-Powers.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tom Powers](https://film.one/media/person/103482/gallery-17189b428a01.jpg) Tom Powers — Image via TMDB
- ![Still from the 1915 British film As Ye Repent, retitled Redeemed for distribution in the United StatesLeft to right: Florence Turner, Tom Powers (1916)](https://film.one/media/person/103482/gallery-e53695ec55e2.jpg) Still from the 1915 British film As Ye Repent, retitled Redeemed for distribution in the United StatesLeft to right: Florence Turner, Tom Powers (1916) — Turner Films, Mutual Films, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Redeemed-1916.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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