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