David Powell
Acting • Born 1883-12-17 – Died 1925-04-16
Biography
From Wikipedia David Powell (December 17, 1883 in Glasgow, Scotland – April 16, 1925 in New York City, New York) was a Scottish-born stage and later film actor of the silent era. In his twenties Powell appeared in stage companies of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Ellen Terry and Johnston Forbes-Robertson. In 1907 he appeared with Terry on Broadway in the first American presentation of Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion. In 1912 Powell started his film career in one to three reel shorts. At the beginning of the 1920s he starred in several Paramount-produced English films. Extant films that feature Powell are The Dawn of A Tomorrow (1916), Less Than Dust (1916), Idols of Clay (1920), The Virtuous Liar (1924), The Green Goddess (1923 version), and The Average Woman (1924). Powell died of pneumonia in April 1925 at the age of 42. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Filmography
43 credits
One of Our Girls
Movie • 1914
M. Henri De St. Hillaire
The Make-Believe Wife
Movie • 1918
John Manning
The Lie
Movie • 1918
Gerald Forster
His Parisian Wife
Movie • 1919
Martin Wesley
Counterfeit
Movie • 1919
Stuart Kent
Lady Rose's Daughter
Movie • 1920
Captain Warkworth
The Fatal Card
Movie • 1915
Gerald Austen
The Firing Line
Movie • 1919
Louis Malcourt
A Romance of the Underworld
Movie • 1918
Richard Elliott
The Spanish Jade
Movie • 1922
Gil Pérez
Missing Millions
Movie • 1922
Boston Blackie
The Right to Love
Movie • 1920
Colonel Richard Loring
The Unforseen
Movie • 1917
Walter Maxwell
The Man Without a Heart
Movie • 1924
Edmund Hyde
The Teeth of the Tiger
Movie • 1919
Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
Anna Ascends
Movie • 1922
The Baron
The Green Goddess
Movie • 1923
Dr. Traherne
Fog Bound
Movie • 1923
Roger Wainright
Less Than the Dust
Movie • 1916
Capt. Richard Townsend
On with the Dance
Movie • 1920
Peter Derwynt
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Movie • 1915
Dandy
The Woman Under Oath
Movie • 1919
Edward Knox
The Average Woman
Movie • 1924
Rudolph Van Alten
Idols of Clay
Movie • 1920
Dion Holme
The Siren Call
Movie • 1922
Ralph Stevens
The Glimpses of the Moon
Movie • 1923
Nick Lansing
Gloria's Romance
Movie • 1916
Richard Freneau - A Broker
Her Gilded Cage
Movie • 1922
Arnold Pell
The Mystery Road
Movie • 1921
Gerald Dombey
Dangerous Lies
Movie • 1921
Sir Henry Bond
Her Husband's Honor
Movie • 1918
Richard Page
The Beautiful Adventure
Movie • 1917
Andre
Outcast
Movie • 1917
Geoffrey Sherwood
Marriage
Movie • 1918
Jack Spencer
The Impostor
Movie • 1918
Blake Walford
The Richest Girl
Movie • 1918
Paul Normand
The Princess of New York
Movie • 1921
Geoffrey Kingsward
Maternity
Movie • 1917
John Locke
Her Great Chance
Movie • 1918
Charles Cox
Virtuous Liars
Movie • 1924
Norman Wright
Fine Feathers
Movie • 1915
Love's Boomerang
Movie • 1922
Brian McCree
The Price She Paid
Movie • 1917
Donald Keith