Acting · Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Born December 17, 1883
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.
MovieVirtuous Liars
1924
as Norman Wright
MovieThe Average Woman
1924
as Rudolph Van Alten
MovieThe Man Without a Heart
1924
as Edmund Hyde
MovieThe Green Goddess
1923
as Dr. Traherne
MovieFog Bound
1923
as Roger Wainright
MovieThe Glimpses of the Moon
1923
as Nick Lansing
MovieAnna Ascends
1922
as The Baron
MovieMissing Millions
1922
as Boston Blackie
MovieThe Siren Call
1922
as Ralph Stevens
MovieThe Spanish Jade
1922
as Gil Pérez
MovieHer Gilded Cage
1922
as Arnold Pell
MovieLove's Boomerang
1922
as Brian McCree
MovieThe Mystery Road
1921
as Gerald Dombey
MovieDangerous Lies
1921
as Sir Henry Bond
MovieThe Princess of New York
1921
as Geoffrey Kingsward
MovieIdols of Clay
1920
as Dion Holme
MovieThe Right to Love
1920
as Colonel Richard Loring
MovieLady Rose's Daughter
1920
as Captain Warkworth
MovieOn with the Dance
1920
as Peter Derwynt
MovieCounterfeit
1919
as Stuart Kent
MovieThe Teeth of the Tiger
1919
as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
MovieThe Firing Line
1919
as Louis Malcourt
MovieThe Woman Under Oath
1919
as Edward Knox
MovieHis Parisian Wife
1919
as Martin Wesley
MovieMarriage
1918
as Jack Spencer
MovieThe Make-Believe Wife
1918
as John Manning
MovieHer Great Chance
1918
as Charles Cox
MovieHer Husband's Honor
1918
as Richard Page
MovieA Romance of the Underworld
1918
as Richard Elliott
MovieThe Lie
1918
as Gerald Forster
MovieThe Richest Girl
1918
as Paul Normand
MovieThe Impostor
1918
as Blake Walford
MovieThe Unforseen
1917
as Walter Maxwell
MovieThe Beautiful Adventure
1917
as Andre
MovieOutcast
1917
as Geoffrey Sherwood
MovieMaternity
1917
as John Locke
MovieThe Price She Paid
1917
as Donald Keith
MovieLess Than the Dust
1916
as Capt. Richard Townsend
MovieGloria's Romance
1916
as Richard Freneau - A Broker
MovieThe Fatal Card
1915
as Gerald Austen
MovieFine Feathers
1915
MovieThe Dawn of a Tomorrow
1915
as Dandy
MovieOne of Our Girls
1914
as M. Henri De St. Hillaire
