David Powell
Actor
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
(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.
Filmography
Less Than the Dust
as Capt. Richard Townsend 1916
On with the Dance
as Peter Derwynt 1920
The Spanish Jade
as Gil Pérez 1922
The Green Goddess
as Dr. Traherne 1923
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
as Dandy 1915
The Woman Under Oath
as Edward Knox 1919
Gloria's Romance
as Richard Freneau - A Broker 1916
The Mystery Road
1921
Dangerous Lies
as Sir Henry Bond 1921
The Princess of New York
as Geoffrey Kingsward 1921
One of Our Girls
as M. Henri De St. Hillaire 1914
The Make-Believe Wife
as John Manning 1918
The Lie
as Gerald Forster 1918
His Parisian Wife
as Martin Wesley 1919
Counterfeit
as Stuart Kent 1919
Lady Rose's Daughter
as Captain Warkworth 1920