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