American actor Tyrone Power was BOTD in 1914. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio to a theatrical family, his father was a popular stage and film actor. After completing high school in 1931, he followed his father to Hollywood, intending to become an actor. His father died suddenly a few months later. Unable to secure film work, he moved to New York to pursue a stage career, making his Broadway debut in 1935. His appearance in a 1936 production of St Joan led to an offer from 20th Century Fox, and he returned to Hollywood. Tall, handsome and charismatic, he moved effortlessly between genres, playing in romantic comedies, musicals, lavish historical dramas, Westerns and war epics. He became a major box-office star playing swashbuckling heroes in Jesse James, The Mark of Zorro and The Black Swan. During World War Two, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Returning to Hollywood after the war, he became a perfect fit for the sober climate of post-war Hollywood, with vivid performances in The Razor’s Edge, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel; Edmund Goulding’s film noir Nightmare Alley; an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises: and the courtroom thriller Witness for the Prosecution, co-starring Marlene Dietrich. In his later career, he fought typecasting in historical dramas, returning to Broadway and the London stage and undertaking several national tours. Married three times and with four children, he had affairs with many of his female co-stars including Lana Turner and Mai Zetterling. He is also thought to have had affairs with César Romero, Errol Flynn and Marlon Brando, and enjoyed casual flings with workers at movie studio lots. Hollywood pimp Scotty Bowers reported in his 2012 memoir that Power frequently used his services to procure young men. Tyrone died suddenly in 1958, while filming Solomon and Sheba in Spain, aged 44.