David Powell
Date of birth: 1883-12-17
Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Known for: Acting
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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.
Movie Credits
One of Our Girls
1914-06-10
The "girl" of the title was played by Hazel Dawn, a popular stage actress who briefly enjoyed a flou
The Make-Believe Wife
1918-11-17
Several young couples have gathered at a vacation home in the mountains. The group of friends go cli
The Lie
1918-04-08
Elinor Shale's happiness at being engaged to Gerald Forster is interrupted by the arrival of her sis
His Parisian Wife
1919-01-19
A beautiful young French girl falls in love with a handsome New Englander, but when they marry and r
Counterfeit
1919-11-30
In order to secretly replenish the family's failing fortunes, Virginia Griswold secures a position i
Lady Rose's Daughter
1920-08-29
Julie le Breton is the illegitimate daughter of Lady Rose, whose own background resembles that of he
The Fatal Card
1915-09-30
A notorious gambler and card cheat, George Forrester, rules a little western town with an iron hand.
The Firing Line
1919-07-06
Sheila Cardross Malcourt shares only a loveless marriage with Louis Malcourt, but is unwilling to di
A Romance of the Underworld
1918-06-30
Convent raised Doris Elliott moves to New York to live with her brother Richard not knowing that he
The Spanish Jade
1922-04-10
When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his fr
Missing Millions
1922-09-17
A girl seeks revenge after a Wall Street broker had falsely accused her father and sent him unjustly
The Right to Love
1920-09-05
An adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.
The Unforseen
1917-10-21
On the eve of her elopement with Henry Traquair, Margaret Fielding is accidentally discovered in Tra
The Man Without a Heart
1924-01-01
When Rufus Asher suspects that Barbara Wier is plotting with his sister's husband, Edmund Hyde, he a
The Teeth of the Tiger
1919-11-02
Living quietly under the assumed name Paul Sernine, reformed gentleman crook Arsene Lupin is summone
Anna Ascends
1922-11-20
While working in Siad Coury’s coffeehouse in a Syrian neighborhood of New York City, Syrian immigran
The Green Goddess
1923-08-13
The Green Goddess is a 1923 American silent adventure film based on the play The Green Goddess by Wi
Fog Bound
1923-05-27
Silent film directed by Irvin Willat
Less Than the Dust
1916-11-04
Young Hindu woman Radha, becomes best friends with Captain Raymond Townsend during his service in In
On with the Dance
1920-02-15
Sonia, a Russian dancer, comes to New York seeking her fortune. She marries Peter Derwynt, a young a
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
1915-06-07
A young girl who lives in the slums of London, is in love with a thief. She persuades him to give up
The Woman Under Oath
1919-06-29
After a forward introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, J
The Average Woman
1924-03-01
Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the li
Idols of Clay
1920-11-28
A girl raised isolated from society in the South Seas falls in love with a visiting sculptor.
The Siren Call
1922-09-17
Love complicates the hunt for gold in 1890's Alaska.
The Glimpses of the Moon
1923-03-25
Although Susan Branch is herself without finances, she has many wealthy friends who supply her with
Gloria's Romance
1916-05-22
An adventurous young girl in Florida gets herself lost in the Everglades and finds terror and excite
Her Gilded Cage
1922-04-05
A romance about a dancer seeking love and fame from Paris cabarets to New York society.
The Mystery Road
1921-07-10
Dangerous Lies
1921-09-18
A widow's husband returns after her second marriage, and dies while assaulting her.
Her Husband's Honor
1918-08-05
Nancy Page is a frivolous socialite until her husband Richard becomes entangled in his employer Davi
The Beautiful Adventure
1917-10-15
Helene De Travillac, a sweat little French girl, loves her handsome cousin, Andre D'Eguzon, but a sc
Outcast
1917-09-10
Miriam Gibson is seduced by a handsome adventurer who then abandons her and their child to marry for
Marriage
1918-11-25
Neglected by her workaholic husband Jack, Eileen Spencer begins an affair with novelist Carter Balla
The Impostor
1918-01-14
The Richest Girl
1918-04-08
A girl needs to marry by a year to get her aunt's money but her fiancé has left. After getting permi
The Princess of New York
1921-06-01
A US steel king pawns the gems of his daughter who is loved by a student and a crook.
Maternity
1917-05-28
Because of the loss of three generations of women in her family during childbirth Ellen Locke is fri
Her Great Chance
1918-10-07
Lola Gray working in a New York department store as a clerk, loves Charles Cox, a millionaire's son
Virtuous Liars
1924-05-18
A high-society woman, mingling with the artistic set in New York City, gets snared in a tangle of li
Fine Feathers
1915-06-14
Love's Boomerang
1922-02-19
In France a man frames his daughter for poisoning her rich husband.
The Price She Paid
1917-02-12
At the death of John Gower, his widow and daughter, Mildred, find themselves with only a few thousan