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Len Powers
Rodney, Iowa, USA
POWERS, LEN (Leonard Stephen Powers) Born December 12, 1892 (although he incorrectly gave 1894 on some documents), Rodney, Iowa. Len grew up in Grant, Iowa with his grocer father…
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POWERS, LEN (Leonard Stephen Powers) Born December 12, 1892 (although he incorrectly gave 1894 on some documents), Rodney, Iowa. Len grew up in Grant, Iowa with his grocer father Charles, mother May, and siblings Charles, Hazel and Clara. He went to school in Portland, Oregon and for a time was a professional boxer. Powers began work as a cinematographer with Reliance in 1914. He shot Blue Blood and Red (1916) for Raoul Walsh at Fox, and Headin’ South (1918) for Douglas Fairbanks, directed by Allan Dwan; he also worked for Magnetic, Mack Sennett, and Hank Mann Comedies. His first film for Hal Roach was the Our Gang short Young Sherlocks (1922). He directed or co-directed 14 Dippy Doo-Dad shorts for Roach in 1923 and ’24, and because of his success with all-animal casts he was asked to film a rooster crowing for the official Pathé logo. After that, Powers was a cameraman exclusively for Roach through 1933, mostly working with Charley Chase. (He moonlighted as a gagman for Mack Sennett in 1927.) With Laurel and Hardy he worked on From Soup to Nuts, Habeas Corpus, Unaccustomed As We Are, Berth Marks, The Hoose-Gow, and The Music Box. He worked at Universal in the early ’40s and was camera operator on some Johnny Mack Brown Westerns toward the end of the decade. His last known credit was photographing stills for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956). Powers’ wife, the former Muriel Elizabeth Davey, died in November. 1945, but he was survived by their daughter Murlen. Died January25, 1965, Hollywood, California, age 72; of a heart attack.
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1949
Hollywood Burlesque
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1937
Slave Ship
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1933
Arabian Tights
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1933
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
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1932
The Music Box
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1932
You're Telling Me
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1932
The Tabasco Kid
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1930
Doctor's Orders
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1930
Girl Shock
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1930
Bear Shooters
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1930
Whispering Whoopee
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1929
Berth Marks
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1929
Unaccustomed as We Are
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1928
The Boy Friend
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1928
Limousine Love
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1927
Fighting Fathers
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1927
The Way of All Pants
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1927
The Sting of Stings
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1927
Are Brunettes Safe?
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1926
Be Your Age
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1926
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
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1926
Bromo and Juliet
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1926
Crazy Like a Fox
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1926
Along Came Auntie
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1926
He Forgot to Remember
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1926
Don Key (Son of Burro)
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1926
Say It with Babies
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1926
Madame Mystery
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1926
Wandering Papas
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1925
Innocent Husbands
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1925
Bad Boy
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1925
Should Husbands Be Watched?
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1925
Plain and Fancy Girls
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1925
Fighting Fluid
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1924
Sittin' Pretty
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1924
Stolen Goods
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1924
Up and at 'Em
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1924
North of 50-50
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1924
Love's Reward
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1923
Lovey Dovey
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