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.
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
Missing Millions
1922
as Boston Blackie
The Siren Call
1922
as Ralph Stevens
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