William Powell

William Powell

male, deceased (1984)
death by myocardial infarction, Nora Charles, From Pittsburgh, Broadway theatre, The Great Ziegfeld, NickandNoraCharles
William Horatio Powell was a three-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, noted for his sophisticated, cynical roles. He is most widely known...
Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy

female, deceased (1993)
Academy Honorary Award recipient, Columbo actor, memoirist, Breast cancer patients, typecast, Welsh-American…NickandNoraCharles, Nora Charles
Myrna Loy was an American motion picture actress. Perhaps her most famous role was as Nora Charles, wife of detective Nick Charles (William...
Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett

male, deceased (1961)
American military personnel of World War II, World War I, American military, private investigator, detective novel, hardboiled…detective novels and short stories, NickandNoraCharles
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894-January 10, 1961) was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring...
Lillian Hellman

Lillian Hellman

female, deceased (1984)
Women dramatists and playwright, Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, memoirist, Lillian Florence Hellman, Nora Charles, NickandNoraCharles
Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 - June 30, 1984) was a successful American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing...
Phyllis Kirk

Phyllis Kirk

female, deceased (2006)
film actor, television actor, polio, warner brother, the thin man, the twilight zone…NickandNoraCharles
Phyllis Kirk, born Phyllis Kirkegaard (September 18 1927 - October 19 2006) was an American actress. She had polio as a child and as a result had...

Albert Hackett

male, deceased (1995)
director, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner, Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay, Easter Parade, After the Thin Man, pre-Code…NickandNoraCharles
Albert Hackett (February 16, 1900 - March 16, 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter. He almost always collaborated with his wife Frances...
Loring Smith

Loring Smith

male, deceased (1981)
film actor, stage actor, television actor, Broadway, abbott and costello, American…NickandNoraCharles
Loring B. Smith (November 181890-July 81981) was an American stage, film, radio and television actor, frequently of broadly comic and gregarious...