- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- December 17, 1883
- Place of Birth
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Died
- April 16, 1925
David Powell
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.
Filmography
movieVirtuous Liars
1924 · Norman Wright
movieThe Average Woman
1924 · Rudolph Van Alten
movieThe Man Without a Heart
1924 · Edmund Hyde
movieThe Green Goddess
1923 · Dr. Traherne
movieFog Bound
1923 · Roger Wainright
movieThe Glimpses of the Moon
1923 · Nick Lansing
movieAnna Ascends
1922 · The Baron
movieMissing Millions
1922 · Boston Blackie
movieThe Siren Call
1922 · Ralph Stevens
movieThe Spanish Jade
1922 · Gil Pérez
movieHer Gilded Cage
1922 · Arnold Pell
movieLove's Boomerang
1922 · Brian McCree
movieThe Mystery Road
1921 · Gerald Dombey
movieDangerous Lies
1921 · Sir Henry Bond
movieThe Princess of New York
1921 · Geoffrey Kingsward
movieIdols of Clay
1920 · Dion Holme
movieThe Right to Love
1920 · Colonel Richard Loring
movieLady Rose's Daughter
1920 · Captain Warkworth
movieOn with the Dance
1920 · Peter Derwynt
movieCounterfeit
1919 · Stuart Kent
movieThe Teeth of the Tiger
1919 · Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
movieThe Firing Line
1919 · Louis Malcourt
movieThe Woman Under Oath
1919 · Edward Knox
movieHis Parisian Wife
1919 · Martin Wesley
movieMarriage
1918 · Jack Spencer
movieThe Make-Believe Wife
1918 · John Manning
movieHer Great Chance
1918 · Charles Cox
movieHer Husband's Honor
1918 · Richard Page
movieA Romance of the Underworld
1918 · Richard Elliott
movieThe Lie
1918 · Gerald Forster
movieThe Richest Girl
1918 · Paul Normand
movieThe Impostor
1918 · Blake Walford
movieThe Unforseen
1917 · Walter Maxwell
movieThe Beautiful Adventure
1917 · Andre
movieOutcast
1917 · Geoffrey Sherwood
movieMaternity
1917 · John Locke
movieThe Price She Paid
1917 · Donald Keith
movieLess Than the Dust
1916 · Capt. Richard Townsend
movieGloria's Romance
1916 · Richard Freneau - A Broker
movieThe Fatal Card
1915 · Gerald Austen
movieFine Feathers
1915
movieThe Dawn of a Tomorrow
1915 · Dandy
movieOne of Our Girls
1914 · M. Henri De St. Hillaire