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Nosher Powell

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Overview

  • Born
    August 15, 1928 · Camberwell, London, England, UK
  • Died
    April 20, 2013 · London, England, UK (undisclosed)
  • Birth name
    Frederick Bernard Powell
  • Height
    1.89 m

Biography

    • After their home was bombed during the war the family was evacuated to Swanage in Dorset where Nosher attended the Swanage Grammar School, On his return to London he took up boxing and became an occasional sparring partner for Joe Louis and later Sugar Ray Robinson, and Muhammad Ali. He continued to box during his national service with the Royal Army Medical Corps and on discharge turned professional, retiring in 1960 having had 78 fights - 51 as a professional and only 9 losses but was never knocked out. He first started in films in 1944 when he was a stuntman in Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944). He continued with stunt work in between his boxing and had small roles in such as David Lean's Oliver Twist (1948),and Cosh Boy (1953). In 1963 he began working as Sean Connery's stunt double in Bons Baisers de Russie (1963) which continued for many years. Away from stunt work he and his wife ran a pub near the Wimbledon greyhound stadium.
      - IMDb mini biography by: Tonyman 5

Family

  • Spouse
      Pauline Wellman(1952 - ?) (2 children)
  • Children
      Gary Powell
      Greg Powell
  • Relatives
      Dinny Powell(Sibling)
      Tilly Powell(Grandchild)

Trivia

  • Brother of Dinny Powell, and father of Greg Powell and Gary Powell, all also stuntmen.
  • In his memoirs, he claimed to have turned down an offer to be the getaway driver on the Great Train Robbery.
  • His mother gave him the nickname "Nosher" because of his enormous appetite when he was an infant.
  • Broke his ankle performing a jump in a fight scene whilst acting as an uncredited stuntman extra on Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) at Shepperton studios. Filming was briefly stopped whilst he was attended to and then taken to hospital where the ankle was put in plaster. He turned up again later that day and asked to be put back in the film as he didn't want to lose a days pay.

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