Michael Powell
(1905-1990), Film director and writerMichael Latham Powell
Sitter in 8 portraits
Together with Emeric Pressburger he formed 'The Archers', an innovatory film-production company. Their acclaimed films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). The partnership dissolved in 1957 but reformed in 1966 on They're a Weird Mob (1966), and again in 1972 for The Boy who Turned Yellow.
Watch a film clip on the sitter from the BBC Archive in the Media section below
by Fred Daniels
modern bromide print from original negative, 1955
NPG x135598
by Michael Birt
bromide print in window mount, 26 April 1984
NPG x23474
Emeric Pressburger; Michael Powell
by Cornel Lucas
bromide fibre print, 1985
NPG x87556
David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam; Michael Powell
by David Bailey
bromide print from 15 x 12 inch negative, 1986
NPG x125276
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