Actor

Hartley Power

Born 1894-03-14Died 1966-01-29aged 71

Hartley Power (1894–1966) is best known for Roman Holiday.

Hartley Power (14 March 1894 – 29 January 1966) was an American-born British film and television actor, who made his Broadway debut in Dolly Jordan in 1922. He is best remembered for two roles: "Sylvester Kee" the ventriloquist who is shot and almost killed by "Maxwell Frere" (Michael Redgrave) as a rival for his dummy's "affections" in Dead of Night and Mr. Hennessy, the chief of the news agency that Gregory Peck worked for in Roman Holiday.

Power died in a Brighton nursing home on 29 January 1966, at the age of 71.

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