Acting
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Man
Dec 17, 1883
Apr 16, 1925 (41)
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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David Powell
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.
| Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1924 | The Average Woman | Rudolph Van Alten |
| 1924 | The Man Without a Heart | Edmund Hyde |
| 1923 | The Green Goddess | Dr. Traherne |
| 1923 | Fog Bound | Roger Wainright |
| 1923 | The Glimpses of the Moon | Nick Lansing |
| 1922 | The Spanish Jade | Gil Pérez |
| 1922 | Missing Millions | Boston Blackie |
| 1922 | Anna Ascends | The Baron |
| 1922 | The Siren Call | Ralph Stevens |
| 1922 | Her Gilded Cage | Arnold Pell |
| 1921 | Dangerous Lies | Sir Henry Bond |
| 1921 | The Mystery Road | |
| 1920 | On with the Dance | Peter Derwynt |
| 1920 | Lady Rose's Daughter | Captain Warkworth |
| 1920 | The Right to Love | Colonel Richard Loring |
| 1920 | Idols of Clay | Dion Holme |
| 1919 | The Woman Under Oath | Edward Knox |
| 1919 | His Parisian Wife | Martin Wesley |
| 1919 | Counterfeit | Stuart Kent |
| 1919 | The Firing Line | Louis Malcourt |
| 1919 | The Teeth of the Tiger | Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin) |
| 1918 | The Make-Believe Wife | John Manning |
| 1918 | The Lie | Gerald Forster |
| 1918 | A Romance of the Underworld | |
| 1918 | Her Husband's Honor | Richard Page |
| 1917 | The Unforseen | Walter Maxwell |
| 1916 | Less Than the Dust | Capt. Richard Townsend |
| 1916 | Gloria's Romance | Richard Freneau - A Broker |
| 1915 | The Dawn of a Tomorrow | Dandy |
| 1915 | The Fatal Card | Gerald Austen |
| 1914 | One of Our Girls | M. Henri De St. Hillaire |