David Powell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1883-12-17 (42 years old)

Deathday

1925-04-16

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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 (1...

Acting

1914

One of Our Girls

as M. Henri De St. Hillaire

1918

The Make-Believe Wife

as John Manning

1918

The Lie

as Gerald Forster

1919

His Parisian Wife

as Martin Wesley

1919

Counterfeit

as Stuart Kent

1920

Lady Rose's Daughter

as Captain Warkworth

1915

The Fatal Card

as Gerald Austen

1919

The Firing Line

as Louis Malcourt

1918

A Romance of the Underworld

as Richard Elliott

1922

The Spanish Jade

as Gil Pérez

1922

Missing Millions

as Boston Blackie

1917

The Unforseen

as Walter Maxwell

1920

The Right to Love

as Colonel Richard Loring

1924

1919

The Teeth of the Tiger

as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)

1922

Anna Ascends

as The Baron

1923

The Green Goddess

as Dr. Traherne

1923

Fog Bound

as Roger Wainright

1916

Less Than the Dust

as Capt. Richard Townsend

1920

On with the Dance

as Peter Derwynt

1919

The Woman Under Oath

as Edward Knox

1924

The Average Woman

as Rudolph Van Alten

1920

Idols of Clay

as Dion Holme

1922

The Siren Call

as Ralph Stevens

1923

1916

Gloria's Romance

as Richard Freneau - A Broker

1922

Her Gilded Cage

as Arnold Pell

1921

Dangerous Lies

as Sir Henry Bond

1918

Her Husband's Honor

as Richard Page

1917

Outcast

as Geoffrey Sherwood

1918

Marriage

as Jack Spencer

1918

The Impostor

as Blake Walford

1918

The Richest Girl

as Paul Normand

1921

The Princess of New York

as Geoffrey Kingsward

1917

Maternity

as John Locke

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