Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
David Powell
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.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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One of Our Girls | M. Henri De St. Hillaire | 1914 |
The Make-Believe Wife | John Manning | 1918 |
The Lie | Gerald Forster | 1918 |
His Parisian Wife | Martin Wesley | 1919 |
Counterfeit | Stuart Kent | 1919 |
Lady Rose's Daughter | Captain Warkworth | 1920 |
The Fatal Card | Gerald Austen | 1915 |
The Firing Line | Louis Malcourt | 1919 |
A Romance of the Underworld | Richard Elliott | 1918 |
The Spanish Jade | Gil Pérez | 1922 |
Missing Millions | Boston Blackie | 1922 |
The Right to Love | Colonel Richard Loring | 1920 |
The Unforseen | Walter Maxwell | 1917 |
The Man Without a Heart | Edmund Hyde | 1924 |
The Teeth of the Tiger | Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin) | 1919 |
Anna Ascends | The Baron | 1922 |
The Green Goddess | Dr. Traherne | 1923 |
Fog Bound | Roger Wainright | 1923 |
Less Than the Dust | Capt. Richard Townsend | 1916 |
On with the Dance | Peter Derwynt | 1920 |
The Dawn of a Tomorrow | Dandy | 1915 |
The Woman Under Oath | Edward Knox | 1919 |
The Average Woman | Rudolph Van Alten | 1924 |
Idols of Clay | Dion Holme | 1920 |
The Siren Call | Ralph Stevens | 1922 |
The Glimpses of the Moon | Nick Lansing | 1923 |
Gloria's Romance | Richard Freneau - A Broker | 1916 |
Her Gilded Cage | Arnold Pell | 1922 |
The Mystery Road | 1921 | |
Dangerous Lies | Sir Henry Bond | 1921 |
Her Husband's Honor | Richard Page | 1918 |
The Beautiful Adventure | Andre | 1917 |
Outcast | Geoffrey Sherwood | 1917 |
Marriage | Jack Spencer | 1918 |
The Impostor | Blake Walford | 1918 |
The Richest Girl | Paul Normand | 1918 |
The Princess of New York | Geoffrey Kingsward | 1921 |
Maternity | John Locke | 1917 | Series | Cast | Year |