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
M. Henri De St. Hillaire
One of Our Girls
John Manning
The Make-Believe Wife
Gerald Forster
The Lie
Martin Wesley
His Parisian Wife
Stuart Kent
Counterfeit
Captain Warkworth
Lady Rose's Daughter
Gerald Austen
The Fatal Card
Louis Malcourt
The Firing Line
Richard Elliott
A Romance of the Underworld
Gil Pérez
The Spanish Jade
Boston Blackie
Missing Millions
Colonel Richard Loring
The Right to Love
Walter Maxwell
The Unforseen
Edmund Hyde
The Man Without a Heart
Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
The Teeth of the Tiger
The Baron
Anna Ascends
Dr. Traherne
The Green Goddess
Roger Wainright
Fog Bound
Capt. Richard Townsend
Less Than the Dust
Peter Derwynt
On with the Dance
Dandy
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Edward Knox
The Woman Under Oath
Rudolph Van Alten
The Average Woman
Dion Holme
Idols of Clay
Ralph Stevens
The Siren Call
Nick Lansing
The Glimpses of the Moon
Richard Freneau - A Broker
Gloria's Romance
Arnold Pell
Her Gilded Cage
Sir Henry Bond
Dangerous Lies
The Mystery Road
Richard Page
Her Husband's Honor
Andre
The Beautiful Adventure
Geoffrey Sherwood
Outcast
Jack Spencer
Marriage
Blake Walford
The Impostor
Paul Normand
The Richest Girl
Geoffrey Kingsward
The Princess of New York
John Locke
Maternity
Charles Cox
Her Great Chance
Norman Wright
Virtuous Liars
Fine Feathers
Brian McCree
Love's Boomerang
Donald Keith
The Price She Paid
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
43
Gender
Male
Birthday
1883-12-17
Place of Birth
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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