David Powell

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.

Known For

Idols of Clay

The Right to Love

Outcast

The Dawn of a Tomorrow

Gloria's Romance

The Woman Under Oath

The Siren Call

The Firing Line

All Movies (43)

• Virtuous Liars1924 · as Norman Wright
• The Average Woman1924 · as Rudolph Van Alten
• The Man Without a Heart1924 · as Edmund Hyde
• The Green Goddess1923 · as Dr. Traherne
• Fog Bound1923 · as Roger Wainright
• The Glimpses of the Moon1923 · as Nick Lansing
• Anna Ascends1922 · as The Baron
• Missing Millions1922 · as Boston Blackie
• The Siren Call1922 · as Ralph Stevens
• The Spanish Jade1922 · as Gil Pérez
• Her Gilded Cage1922 · as Arnold Pell
• Love's Boomerang1922 · as Brian McCree
• The Mystery Road1921 · as Gerald Dombey
• Dangerous Lies1921 · as Sir Henry Bond
• The Princess of New York1921 · as Geoffrey Kingsward
• Idols of Clay1920 · as Dion Holme
• The Right to Love1920 · as Colonel Richard Loring
• Lady Rose's Daughter1920 · as Captain Warkworth
• On with the Dance1920 · as Peter Derwynt
• Counterfeit1919 · as Stuart Kent
• The Teeth of the Tiger1919 · as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
• The Firing Line1919 · as Louis Malcourt
• The Woman Under Oath1919 · as Edward Knox
• His Parisian Wife1919 · as Martin Wesley
• Marriage1918 · as Jack Spencer
• The Make-Believe Wife1918 · as John Manning
• Her Great Chance1918 · as Charles Cox
• Her Husband's Honor1918 · as Richard Page
• A Romance of the Underworld1918 · as Richard Elliott
• The Lie1918 · as Gerald Forster
• The Richest Girl1918 · as Paul Normand
• The Impostor1918 · as Blake Walford
• The Unforseen1917 · as Walter Maxwell
• The Beautiful Adventure1917 · as Andre
• Outcast1917 · as Geoffrey Sherwood
• Maternity1917 · as John Locke
• The Price She Paid1917 · as Donald Keith
• Less Than the Dust1916 · as Capt. Richard Townsend
• Gloria's Romance1916 · as Richard Freneau - A Broker
• The Fatal Card1915 · as Gerald Austen
• Fine Feathers1915
• The Dawn of a Tomorrow1915 · as Dandy
• One of Our Girls1914 · as M. Henri De St. Hillaire