David Powell
Born: 1883-12-17 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Died: 1925-04-16
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1924
- Virtuous Liars as Norman Wright
- The Average Woman as Rudolph Van Alten
- The Man Without a Heart as Edmund Hyde
1923
- The Glimpses of the Moon as Nick Lansing
- The Green Goddess as Dr. Traherne
- Fog Bound as Roger Wainright
1922
- Love's Boomerang as Brian McCree
- The Spanish Jade as Gil Pérez
- Anna Ascends as The Baron
- Missing Millions as Boston Blackie
- The Siren Call as Ralph Stevens
- Her Gilded Cage as Arnold Pell
1921
- The Princess of New York as Geoffrey Kingsward
- The Mystery Road as Gerald Dombey
- Dangerous Lies as Sir Henry Bond
1920
- The Right to Love as Colonel Richard Loring
- Idols of Clay as Dion Holme
- Lady Rose's Daughter as Captain Warkworth
- On with the Dance as Peter Derwynt
1919
- The Woman Under Oath as Edward Knox
- The Teeth of the Tiger as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
- His Parisian Wife as Martin Wesley
- The Firing Line as Louis Malcourt
- Counterfeit as Stuart Kent
1918
- Her Husband's Honor as Richard Page
- The Make-Believe Wife as John Manning
- Marriage as Jack Spencer
- Her Great Chance as Charles Cox
- The Richest Girl as Paul Normand
- A Romance of the Underworld as Richard Elliott
- The Impostor as Blake Walford
- The Lie as Gerald Forster
1917
- The Price She Paid as Donald Keith
- Maternity as John Locke
- The Beautiful Adventure as Andre
- Outcast as Geoffrey Sherwood
- The Unforseen as Walter Maxwell
1916
- Less Than the Dust as Capt. Richard Townsend
- Gloria's Romance as Richard Freneau - A Broker
1915
- Fine Feathers
- The Dawn of a Tomorrow as Dandy
- The Fatal Card as Gerald Austen
1914
- One of Our Girls as M. Henri De St. Hillaire