Biografía

In the 1940s he sold his 55-foot yacht, Santana, to lifelong sailing enthusiast Humphrey Bogart. The vessel subsequently achieved celebrity status as "Bogie's Boat" owing to his numerous seafaring expeditions, and Bogart even named his production company, Santana Productions, after it.

His estate was reportedly valued at $10,000,000 at the time of his death.

He was a vocalist with Charlie Davis's orchestra before entering film.

He was yet another casualty of the 1956 film El conquistador de Mongolia (1956), which was filmed near a nuclear test site in Utah. Many of the people involved with the film, including Powell, who directed, eventually died of cancer, either caused or exacerbated by working on it. Others included actors John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Ted de Corsia, and Agnes Moorehead. However, in a 2001 interview with Larry King Powell's widow June Allyson said he died of lung cancer caused by chain-smoking cigarettes.

In Como plaga de langosta (1975), Powell was portrayed by his son Richard Powell.