David Powell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 17, 1883
- Died
- Apr 16, 1925 (aged 41)
- Place of birth
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Credits
- 43
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
The Average Woman
1924Movie
Rudolph Van Alten
The Spanish Jade
1922Movie
Gil Pérez
On with the Dance
1920Movie
Peter Derwynt
Virtuous Liars
1924Movie
Norman Wright
The Green Goddess
1923Movie
Dr. Traherne
The Mystery Road
1921Movie
Gerald Dombey
Filmography
Virtuous Liars
1924Movie
Norman Wright
The Average Woman
1924Movie
Rudolph Van Alten
The Man Without a Heart
1924Movie
Edmund Hyde
The Green Goddess
1923Movie
Dr. Traherne
Fog Bound
1923Movie
Roger Wainright
The Glimpses of the Moon
1923Movie
Nick Lansing
Anna Ascends
1922Movie
The Baron
Missing Millions
1922Movie
Boston Blackie
The Siren Call
1922Movie
Ralph Stevens
The Spanish Jade
1922Movie
Gil Pérez
Her Gilded Cage
1922Movie
Arnold Pell
Love's Boomerang
1922Movie
Brian McCree
The Mystery Road
1921Movie
Gerald Dombey
Dangerous Lies
1921Movie
Sir Henry Bond
The Princess of New York
1921Movie
Geoffrey Kingsward
Idols of Clay
1920Movie
Dion Holme
The Right to Love
1920Movie
Colonel Richard Loring
Lady Rose's Daughter
1920Movie
Captain Warkworth
On with the Dance
1920Movie
Peter Derwynt
Counterfeit
1919Movie
Stuart Kent
The Teeth of the Tiger
1919Movie
Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
The Firing Line
1919Movie
Louis Malcourt
The Woman Under Oath
1919Movie
Edward Knox
His Parisian Wife
1919Movie
Martin Wesley
Marriage
1918Movie
Jack Spencer
The Make-Believe Wife
1918Movie
John Manning
Her Great Chance
1918Movie
Charles Cox
Her Husband's Honor
1918Movie
Richard Page
A Romance of the Underworld
1918Movie
Richard Elliott
The Lie
1918Movie
Gerald Forster
The Richest Girl
1918Movie
Paul Normand
The Impostor
1918Movie
Blake Walford
The Unforseen
1917Movie
Walter Maxwell
The Beautiful Adventure
1917Movie
Andre
Outcast
1917Movie
Geoffrey Sherwood
Maternity
1917Movie
John Locke
The Price She Paid
1917Movie
Donald Keith
Less Than the Dust
1916Movie
Capt. Richard Townsend
Gloria's Romance
1916Movie
Richard Freneau - A Broker
The Fatal Card
1915Movie
Gerald Austen
Fine Feathers
1915Movie
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
1915Movie
Dandy
One of Our Girls
1914Movie
M. Henri De St. Hillaire