David Powell
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1883-12-17
Day of Death
1925-04-16 (41 years old)
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.
Known For
Acting
(1924)
The Average Woman
as Rudolph Van Alten
(1924)
The Man Without a Heart
as Edmund Hyde
(1923)
The Glimpses of the Moon
as Nick Lansing
(1923)
The Green Goddess
as Dr. Traherne
(1923)
Fog Bound
as Roger Wainright
(1922)
Missing Millions
as Boston Blackie
(1922)
The Siren Call
as Ralph Stevens
(1922)
Anna Ascends
as The Baron
(1922)
The Spanish Jade
as Gil Pérez
(1922)
Her Gilded Cage
as Arnold Pell
(1921)
The Princess of New York
as Geoffrey Kingsward
(1921)
Dangerous Lies
as Sir Henry Bond
(1921)
(1920)
The Right to Love
as Colonel Richard Loring
(1920)
Idols of Clay
as Dion Holme
(1920)
On with the Dance
as Peter Derwynt
(1920)
Lady Rose's Daughter
as Captain Warkworth
(1919)
The Woman Under Oath
as Edward Knox
(1919)
Counterfeit
as Stuart Kent
(1919)
The Firing Line
as Louis Malcourt
(1919)
The Teeth of the Tiger
as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
(1919)
His Parisian Wife
as Martin Wesley
(1918)
The Richest Girl
as Paul Normand
(1918)
The Impostor
as Blake Walford
(1918)
The Lie
as Gerald Forster
(1918)
The Make-Believe Wife
as John Manning
(1918)
Her Husband's Honor
as Richard Page
(1918)
Marriage
as Jack Spencer
(1918)
A Romance of the Underworld
as Richard Elliott
(1917)
The Unforseen
as Walter Maxwell
(1917)
Outcast
as Geoffrey Sherwood
(1917)
Maternity
as John Locke
(1917)
The Beautiful Adventure
as Andre
(1916)
Gloria's Romance
as Richard Freneau - A Broker
(1916)
Less Than the Dust
as Capt. Richard Townsend
(1915)
The Fatal Card
as Gerald Austen
(1915)
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
as Dandy
(1914)
One of Our Girls
as M. Henri De St. Hillaire