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David Powell

David Powell

Actor · Born 1883-12-17 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Average Woman (1924) — Rudolph Van Alten
  2. The Spanish Jade (1922) — Gil Pérez
  3. On with the Dance (1920) — Peter Derwynt
  4. The Green Goddess (1923) — Dr. Traherne
  5. Less Than the Dust (1916) — Capt. Richard Townsend
  6. The Woman Under Oath (1919) — Edward Knox
  7. Dangerous Lies (1921) — Sir Henry Bond
  8. The Mystery Road (1921) — Gerald Dombey
  9. The Princess of New York (1921) — Geoffrey Kingsward
  10. Virtuous Liars (1924) — Norman Wright
  11. His Parisian Wife (1919) — Martin Wesley
  12. Counterfeit (1919) — Stuart Kent
  13. Lady Rose's Daughter (1920) — Captain Warkworth
  14. The Firing Line (1919) — Louis Malcourt
  15. Missing Millions (1922) — Boston Blackie
  16. The Unforseen (1917) — Walter Maxwell
  17. The Right to Love (1920) — Colonel Richard Loring
  18. The Man Without a Heart (1924) — Edmund Hyde
  19. The Teeth of the Tiger (1919) — Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
  20. Anna Ascends (1922) — The Baron
  21. Fog Bound (1923) — Roger Wainright
  22. The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915) — Dandy
  23. Idols of Clay (1920) — Dion Holme
  24. The Siren Call (1922) — Ralph Stevens
  25. The Glimpses of the Moon (1923) — Nick Lansing
  26. Gloria's Romance (1916) — Richard Freneau - A Broker
  27. Her Gilded Cage (1922) — Arnold Pell
  28. Her Husband's Honor (1918) — Richard Page
  29. The Beautiful Adventure (1917) — Andre
  30. Outcast (1917) — Geoffrey Sherwood
  31. The Richest Girl (1918) — Paul Normand
  32. Love's Boomerang (1922) — Brian McCree
  33. One of Our Girls (1914) — M. Henri De St. Hillaire
  34. The Make-Believe Wife (1918) — John Manning
  35. The Lie (1918) — Gerald Forster
  36. The Fatal Card (1915) — Gerald Austen
  37. A Romance of the Underworld (1918) — Richard Elliott
  38. Marriage (1918) — Jack Spencer
  39. The Impostor (1918) — Blake Walford
  40. Maternity (1917) — John Locke