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