David Powell

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1883-12-17

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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.

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Acting History

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