David Powell
Acting
Born: 1883-12-17 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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
Virtuous Liars
Norman Wright
Less Than the Dust
Capt. Richard Townsend
Fine Feathers
Her Great Chance
Charles Cox
The Price She Paid
Donald Keith
The Green Goddess
Dr. Traherne
Anna Ascends
The Baron
One of Our Girls
M. Henri De St. Hillaire
The Make-Believe Wife
John Manning
Her Husband's Honor
Richard Page
Love's Boomerang
Brian McCree
The Siren Call
Ralph Stevens
The Right to Love
Colonel Richard Loring
The Teeth of the Tiger
Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
The Woman Under Oath
Edward Knox
Her Gilded Cage
Arnold Pell
Gloria's Romance
Richard Freneau - A Broker
The Impostor
Blake Walford
Dangerous Lies
Sir Henry Bond
The Average Woman
Rudolph Van Alten
Counterfeit
Stuart Kent
Missing Millions
Boston Blackie
The Glimpses of the Moon
Nick Lansing
His Parisian Wife
Martin Wesley
The Firing Line
Louis Malcourt
Marriage
Jack Spencer
The Spanish Jade
Gil Pérez
On with the Dance
Peter Derwynt
Outcast
Geoffrey Sherwood
Maternity
John Locke
Fog Bound
Roger Wainright
The Mystery Road
Gerald Dombey
The Fatal Card
Gerald Austen
A Romance of the Underworld
Richard Elliott
Idols of Clay
Dion Holme
The Princess of New York
Geoffrey Kingsward
The Richest Girl
Paul Normand
Lady Rose's Daughter
Captain Warkworth
The Beautiful Adventure
Andre
The Man Without a Heart
Edmund Hyde