Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
December 17, 1883
Place of Birth:
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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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
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1924 | The Man Without a Heart | Edmund Hyde |
| 1924 | The Average Woman | Rudolph Van Alten |
| 1923 | The Green Goddess | Dr. Traherne |
| 1923 | Fog Bound | Roger Wainright |
| 1923 | The Glimpses of the Moon | Nick Lansing |
| 1922 | The Spanish Jade | Gil Pérez |
| 1922 | Missing Millions | Boston Blackie |
| 1922 | Anna Ascends | The Baron |
| 1922 | The Siren Call | Ralph Stevens |
| 1922 | Her Gilded Cage | Arnold Pell |
| 1921 | Dangerous Lies | Sir Henry Bond |
| 1921 | The Mystery Road | |
| 1921 | The Princess of New York | Geoffrey Kingsward |
| 1920 | Lady Rose's Daughter | Captain Warkworth |
| 1920 | The Right to Love | Colonel Richard Loring |
| 1920 | On with the Dance | Peter Derwynt |
| 1920 | Idols of Clay | Dion Holme |
| 1919 | His Parisian Wife | Martin Wesley |
| 1919 | Counterfeit | Stuart Kent |
| 1919 | The Firing Line | Louis Malcourt |
| 1919 | The Teeth of the Tiger | Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin) |
| 1919 | The Woman Under Oath | Edward Knox |
| 1918 | The Make-Believe Wife | John Manning |
| 1918 | The Lie | Gerald Forster |
| 1918 | A Romance of the Underworld | Richard Elliott |
| 1918 | Her Husband's Honor | Richard Page |
| 1918 | Marriage | Jack Spencer |
| 1918 | The Impostor | Blake Walford |
| 1918 | The Richest Girl | Paul Normand |
| 1917 | The Unforseen | Walter Maxwell |
| 1917 | The Beautiful Adventure | Andre |
| 1917 | Outcast | Geoffrey Sherwood |
| 1917 | Maternity | John Locke |
| 1916 | Less Than the Dust | Capt. Richard Townsend |
| 1916 | Gloria's Romance | Richard Freneau - A Broker |
| 1915 | The Fatal Card | Gerald Austen |
| 1915 | The Dawn of a Tomorrow | Dandy |
| 1914 | One of Our Girls | M. Henri De St. Hillaire |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
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