Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 17, 1883
Died
Apr 16, 1925
Place of Birth
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Credits
43 titles
David Powell
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.
Known For
Filmography
Virtuous Liars
Norman Wright
The Average Woman
Rudolph Van Alten
The Man Without a Heart
Edmund Hyde
The Green Goddess
Dr. Traherne
Fog Bound
Roger Wainright
The Glimpses of the Moon
Nick Lansing
Anna Ascends
The Baron
The Siren Call
Ralph Stevens
Missing Millions
Boston Blackie
The Spanish Jade
Gil Pérez
Her Gilded Cage
Arnold Pell
Love's Boomerang
Brian McCree
The Mystery Road
Gerald Dombey
Dangerous Lies
Sir Henry Bond
The Princess of New York
Geoffrey Kingsward
Idols of Clay
Dion Holme
The Right to Love
Colonel Richard Loring
Lady Rose's Daughter
Captain Warkworth
On with the Dance
Peter Derwynt
Counterfeit
Stuart Kent
The Teeth of the Tiger
Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
The Firing Line
Louis Malcourt
The Woman Under Oath
Edward Knox
His Parisian Wife
Martin Wesley
Marriage
Jack Spencer
The Make-Believe Wife
John Manning
Her Great Chance
Charles Cox
Her Husband's Honor
Richard Page
A Romance of the Underworld
Richard Elliott
The Richest Girl
Paul Normand
The Lie
Gerald Forster
The Impostor
Blake Walford
The Unforseen
Walter Maxwell
The Beautiful Adventure
Andre
Outcast
Geoffrey Sherwood
Maternity
John Locke
The Price She Paid
Donald Keith
Less Than the Dust
Capt. Richard Townsend
Gloria's Romance
Richard Freneau - A Broker
The Fatal Card
Gerald Austen
Fine Feathers
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Dandy
One of Our Girls
M. Henri De St. Hillaire