David Powell
Acting
1883-12-17 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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(43)
movieVirtuous Liars
as Norman Wright · 1924 · 10.0
movieThe Average Woman
as Rudolph Van Alten · 1924 · 6.6
movieThe Man Without a Heart
as Edmund Hyde · 1924 · 8.0
movieThe Green Goddess
as Dr. Traherne · 1923 · 7.0
movieFog Bound
as Roger Wainright · 1923 · 8.0
movieThe Glimpses of the Moon
as Nick Lansing · 1923 · 9.0
movieAnna Ascends
as The Baron · 1922 · 9.0
movieMissing Millions
as Boston Blackie · 1922 · 8.0
movieThe Siren Call
as Ralph Stevens · 1922 · 8.0
movieThe Spanish Jade
as Gil Pérez · 1922 · 8.0
movieHer Gilded Cage
as Arnold Pell · 1922 · 10.0
movieLove's Boomerang
as Brian McCree · 1922 · 7.0
movieThe Mystery Road
as Gerald Dombey · 1921 · 7.0
movieDangerous Lies
as Sir Henry Bond · 1921 · 8.0
movieThe Princess of New York
as Geoffrey Kingsward · 1921 · 7.0
movieIdols of Clay
as Dion Holme · 1920 · 9.0
movieThe Right to Love
as Colonel Richard Loring · 1920 · 9.0
movieLady Rose's Daughter
as Captain Warkworth · 1920 · 10.0
movieOn with the Dance
as Peter Derwynt · 1920 · 4.0
movieCounterfeit
as Stuart Kent · 1919 · 9.0
movieThe Teeth of the Tiger
as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin) · 1919 · 9.0
movieThe Firing Line
as Louis Malcourt · 1919 · 7.0
movieThe Woman Under Oath
as Edward Knox · 1919 · 6.5
movieHis Parisian Wife
as Martin Wesley · 1919 · 10.0