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.
Personal Details
Movies (43)
Virtuous Liars
as Norman Wright
1924
The Average Woman
as Rudolph Van Alten
1924
The Man Without a Heart
as Edmund Hyde
1924
The Green Goddess
as Dr. Traherne
1923
Fog Bound
as Roger Wainright
1923
The Glimpses of the Moon
as Nick Lansing
1923
Anna Ascends
as The Baron
1922
Missing Millions
as Boston Blackie
1922
The Siren Call
as Ralph Stevens
1922
The Spanish Jade
as Gil Pérez
1922
Her Gilded Cage
as Arnold Pell
1922
Love's Boomerang
as Brian McCree
1922
Dangerous Lies
as Sir Henry Bond
1921
The Mystery Road
1921
The Princess of New York
as Geoffrey Kingsward
1921
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
1920
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
1919
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 Lie
as Gerald Forster
1918
The Richest Girl
as Paul Normand
1918
The Impostor
as Blake Walford
1918
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
1917
Less Than the Dust
as Capt. Richard Townsend
1916
Gloria's Romance
as Richard Freneau - A Broker
1916
The Fatal Card
as Gerald Austen
1915
Fine Feathers
1915
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
as Dandy
1915
One of Our Girls
as M. Henri De St. Hillaire
1914