Nosher Powell, Father of a Powerful Stunt Family

Nosher Powell, proud Dad of Gary Powell, the stunt-co-ordinator for the new Bond move, Casino Royal, (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. 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]

Selected filmography
Oliver Twist (1948)
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
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)