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)
Fog Bound
as Roger Wainright
(1923)
The Green Goddess
as Dr. Traherne
(1922)
Her Gilded Cage
as Arnold Pell
(1922)
Missing Millions
as Boston Blackie
(1922)
The Spanish Jade
as Gil Pérez
(1922)
The Siren Call
as Ralph Stevens
(1922)
Anna Ascends
as The Baron
(1921)
(1921)
Dangerous Lies
as Sir Henry Bond
(1921)
The Princess of New York
as Geoffrey Kingsward
(1920)
On with the Dance
as Peter Derwynt
(1920)
Idols of Clay
as Dion Holme
(1920)
The Right to Love
as Colonel Richard Loring
(1920)
Lady Rose's Daughter
as Captain Warkworth
(1919)
The Woman Under Oath
as Edward Knox
(1919)
The Teeth of the Tiger
as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
(1919)
Counterfeit
as Stuart Kent
(1919)
His Parisian Wife
as Martin Wesley
(1919)
The Firing Line
as Louis Malcourt
(1918)
The Make-Believe Wife
as John Manning
(1918)
The Richest Girl
as Paul Normand
(1918)
A Romance of the Underworld
as Richard Elliott
(1918)
Her Husband's Honor
as Richard Page
(1918)
The Lie
as Gerald Forster
(1918)
The Impostor
as Blake Walford
(1918)
Marriage
as Jack Spencer
(1917)
Maternity
as John Locke
(1917)
The Unforseen
as Walter Maxwell
(1917)
Outcast
as Geoffrey Sherwood
(1917)
The Beautiful Adventure
as Andre
(1916)
Less Than the Dust
as Capt. Richard Townsend
(1916)
Gloria's Romance
as Richard Freneau - A Broker
(1915)
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
as Dandy
(1915)
The Fatal Card
as Gerald Austen
(1914)
One of Our Girls
as M. Henri De St. Hillaire