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