Acting
David Powell
EN, XX cinema · 43 credits
Born
17 December 1883
Died
16 April 1925 (aged 41)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
The Man Without a Heart
as Edmund Hyde
The Average Woman
as Rudolph Van Alten
Virtuous Liars
as Norman Wright
The Green Goddess
as Dr. Traherne
Fog Bound
as Roger Wainright
The Glimpses of the Moon
as Nick Lansing
The Spanish Jade
as Gil Pérez
Missing Millions
as Boston Blackie
Anna Ascends
as The Baron
The Siren Call
as Ralph Stevens
Her Gilded Cage
as Arnold Pell
Love's Boomerang
as Brian McCree
Dangerous Lies
as Sir Henry Bond
The Mystery Road
as Gerald Dombey
The Princess of New York
as Geoffrey Kingsward
Lady Rose's Daughter
as Captain Warkworth
The Right to Love
as Colonel Richard Loring
On with the Dance
as Peter Derwynt
Idols of Clay
as Dion Holme
His Parisian Wife
as Martin Wesley
Counterfeit
as Stuart Kent
The Firing Line
as Louis Malcourt
The Teeth of the Tiger
as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
The Woman Under Oath
as Edward Knox
The Make-Believe Wife
as John Manning
The Lie
as Gerald Forster
A Romance of the Underworld
as Richard Elliott
Her Husband's Honor
as Richard Page
Marriage
as Jack Spencer
The Impostor
as Blake Walford
The Richest Girl
as Paul Normand
Her Great Chance
as Charles Cox
The Unforseen
as Walter Maxwell
Outcast
as Geoffrey Sherwood
Maternity
as John Locke
The Price She Paid
as Donald Keith
Less Than the Dust
as Capt. Richard Townsend
Gloria's Romance
as Richard Freneau - A Broker
The Fatal Card
as Gerald Austen
One of Our Girls
as M. Henri De St. Hillaire