Dick Powell

Richard Ewing Powell was an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardboiled leading man, starring in projects of a more dramatic nature. He was the first actor to portray private detective Philip Marlowe on screen. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Po...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)