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 biographyNosher!, 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. He also worked as a sparing partner for Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali among others. The last fight of his career was against Menzies Johnson. Nosher won the fight on points, over eight rounds.
According to his autobiography Nosher had a total of seventy-eight fights. Fifty-one of those fights were as a professional.
According to his autobiography...
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