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