David Powell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 17, 1883
- Died
- April 16, 1925 (aged 41)
- Birthplace
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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.
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Filmography
The Man Without a Heart
Movie · as Edmund Hyde
The Average Woman
Movie · as Rudolph Van Alten
Virtuous Liars
Movie · as Norman Wright
The Green Goddess
Movie · as Dr. Traherne
Fog Bound
Movie · as Roger Wainright
The Glimpses of the Moon
Movie · as Nick Lansing
The Spanish Jade
Movie · as Gil Pérez
Missing Millions
Movie · as Boston Blackie
Anna Ascends
Movie · as The Baron
The Siren Call
Movie · as Ralph Stevens
Her Gilded Cage
Movie · as Arnold Pell
Love's Boomerang
Movie · as Brian McCree
Dangerous Lies
Movie · as Sir Henry Bond
The Mystery Road
Movie · as Gerald Dombey
The Princess of New York
Movie · as Geoffrey Kingsward
Lady Rose's Daughter
Movie · as Captain Warkworth
The Right to Love
Movie · as Colonel Richard Loring
On with the Dance
Movie · as Peter Derwynt
Idols of Clay
Movie · as Dion Holme
His Parisian Wife
Movie · as Martin Wesley
Counterfeit
Movie · as Stuart Kent
The Firing Line
Movie · as Louis Malcourt
The Teeth of the Tiger
Movie · as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
The Woman Under Oath
Movie · as Edward Knox
The Make-Believe Wife
Movie · as John Manning
The Lie
Movie · as Gerald Forster
A Romance of the Underworld
Movie · as Richard Elliott
Her Husband's Honor
Movie · as Richard Page
Marriage
Movie · as Jack Spencer
The Impostor
Movie · as Blake Walford
The Richest Girl
Movie · as Paul Normand
Her Great Chance
Movie · as Charles Cox
The Unforseen
Movie · as Walter Maxwell
The Beautiful Adventure
Movie · as Andre
Outcast
Movie · as Geoffrey Sherwood
Maternity
Movie · as John Locke
The Price She Paid
Movie · as Donald Keith
Less Than the Dust
Movie · as Capt. Richard Townsend
Gloria's Romance
Movie · as Richard Freneau - A Broker
The Fatal Card
Movie · as Gerald Austen
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Movie · as Dandy
Fine Feathers
Movie
One of Our Girls
Movie · as M. Henri De St. Hillaire