David Powell

David Powell (41)

1883-12-17 - 1925-04-16 | Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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.

On Movies

  • The Average Woman
  • The Man Without a Heart
  • The Green Goddess
  • Fog Bound
  • The Glimpses of the Moon
  • Anna Ascends
  • Missing Millions
  • The Siren Call
  • The Spanish Jade
  • Her Gilded Cage
  • Dangerous Lies
  • The Princess of New York
  • Idols of Clay
  • The Right to Love
  • Lady Rose's Daughter
  • On with the Dance
  • Counterfeit
  • The Teeth of the Tiger
  • The Firing Line
  • The Woman Under Oath
  • His Parisian Wife
  • Marriage
  • The Make-Believe Wife
  • Her Husband's Honor
  • A Romance of the Underworld
  • The Lie
  • The Richest Girl
  • The Unforseen
  • The Beautiful Adventure
  • Outcast
  • Maternity
  • Less Than the Dust
  • Gloria's Romance
  • The Fatal Card
  • The Dawn of a Tomorrow
  • One of Our Girls

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