Nosher Powell
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Nosher Powell (born 15 August 1928 in Camberwell, London, England) is known both as an actor, sometimes credited as; Freddie Powell, Frederick Powell and Fred Powell, and as a boxer.
Powell has had an extensive, but mostly uncredited career in acting, and, in his biography Nosher!, he is described as the ultimate hard man - a boxer, bouncer, minder, a stunt man, and a force to be reckoned with.
In 1969 Powell portrayed the role of the powerful thug Lord Dorking in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).
Apart from his acting career, Powell was a heavyweight boxing champion in the worlds of unlicensed fighting and the professional arena, fighting with Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali and bare-knuckle champion Roy 'Pretty Boy' Shaw. The last fight of his career was against Menzies Johnson, Nosher won the fight on points, over eight rounds. Nosher had a total of seventy-eight fights, fifty-one of those professional, he lost nine and was never knocked out.[1]
[edit] Selected filmography
- Oliver Twist (1948)
- Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
- The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
- A Shot in the Dark (1964)
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
- Oliver! (1968)
- On the Buses (1971)
- Carry on Dick (1974)
- Victor/Victoria (1982)
- Krull (1983)
- Eat the Rich (1987)
- Willow (1988)
- Legionnaire (1998)
[edit] References
- ^ Powell, Nosher & Hall, William Nosher pp93-96 John Blake Publishing 2001 ISBN 1857824911
