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