About

Known credits:
32
Birthday:
1883-12-17
Place of birth:
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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David Powell

Overview

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

Acting
1924 The Average Woman Actor Rudolph Van Alten 59
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1924 The Man Without a Heart Actor Edmund Hyde N/A
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1923 The Green Goddess Actor Dr. Traherne 58
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1923 Fog Bound Actor Roger Wainright N/A
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1923 The Glimpses of the Moon Actor Nick Lansing N/A
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1922 Anna Ascends Actor The Baron N/A
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1922 The Siren Call Actor Ralph Stevens N/A
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1922 Missing Millions Actor Boston Blackie N/A
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1922 The Spanish Jade Actor Gil Pérez 58
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1922 Her Gilded Cage Actor Arnold Pell N/A
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1921 Dangerous Lies Actor Sir Henry Bond 58
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1921 The Mystery Road Actor 58
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1920 Idols of Clay Actor Dion Holme N/A
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1920 The Right to Love Actor Colonel Richard Loring N/A
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1920 Lady Rose's Daughter Actor Captain Warkworth N/A
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1920 On with the Dance Actor Peter Derwynt 58
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1919 Counterfeit Actor Stuart Kent N/A
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1919 The Teeth of the Tiger Actor Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin) N/A
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1919 The Firing Line Actor Louis Malcourt N/A
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1919 The Woman Under Oath Actor Edward Knox 58
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1919 His Parisian Wife Actor Martin Wesley N/A
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1918 The Make-Believe Wife Actor John Manning N/A
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1918 Her Husband's Honor Actor Richard Page N/A
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1918 A Romance of the Underworld Actor N/A
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1918 The Lie Actor Gerald Forster N/A
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1917 The Unforseen Actor Walter Maxwell N/A
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1917 The Beautiful Adventure Actor Andre N/A
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1916 Less Than the Dust Actor Capt. Richard Townsend 58
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1916 Gloria's Romance Actor Richard Freneau - A Broker 58
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1915 The Fatal Card Actor Gerald Austen N/A
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1915 The Dawn of a Tomorrow Actor Dandy 59
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1914 One of Our Girls Actor M. Henri De St. Hillaire N/A
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