1883-12-17 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.
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Virtuous Liars | Norman Wright | 1924-05-18 |
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The Man Without a Heart | Edmund Hyde | 1924-01-01 |
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The Average Woman | Rudolph Van Alten | 1924-03-01 |
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The Green Goddess | Dr. Traherne | 1923-08-13 |
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The Glimpses of the Moon | Nick Lansing | 1923-03-25 |
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Fog Bound | Roger Wainright | 1923-05-27 |
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Anna Ascends | The Baron | 1922-11-20 |
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The Siren Call | Ralph Stevens | 1922-09-17 |
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Missing Millions | Boston Blackie | 1922-09-17 |
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Her Gilded Cage | Arnold Pell | 1922-04-05 |
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The Spanish Jade | Gil Pérez | 1922-04-10 |
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The Mystery Road | 1921-07-10 | |
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Dangerous Lies | Sir Henry Bond | 1921-09-18 |
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The Princess of New York | Geoffrey Kingsward | 1921-06-01 |
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Idols of Clay | Dion Holme | 1920-11-28 |
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Lady Rose's Daughter | Captain Warkworth | 1920-08-29 |
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The Right to Love | Colonel Richard Loring | 1920-09-05 |
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On with the Dance | Peter Derwynt | 1920-02-15 |
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The Woman Under Oath | Edward Knox | 1919-06-29 |
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His Parisian Wife | Martin Wesley | 1919-01-19 |
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The Teeth of the Tiger | Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin) | 1919-11-02 |
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Counterfeit | Stuart Kent | 1919-11-30 |
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The Firing Line | Louis Malcourt | 1919-07-06 |
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Marriage | Jack Spencer | 1918-11-25 |
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A Romance of the Underworld | Richard Elliott | 1918-06-30 |
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Her Husband's Honor | Richard Page | 1918-08-05 |
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The Impostor | Blake Walford | 1918-01-14 |
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The Make-Believe Wife | John Manning | 1918-11-17 |
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Her Great Chance | Charles Cox | 1918-10-07 |
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The Lie | Gerald Forster | 1918-04-08 |
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The Richest Girl | Paul Normand | 1918-04-08 |
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Outcast | Geoffrey Sherwood | 1917-09-10 |
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The Unforseen | Walter Maxwell | 1917-10-21 |
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Maternity | John Locke | 1917-05-28 |
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The Beautiful Adventure | Andre | 1917-10-15 |
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Less Than the Dust | Capt. Richard Townsend | 1916-11-04 |
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Gloria's Romance | Richard Freneau - A Broker | 1916-05-22 |
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Fine Feathers | 1915-06-14 | |
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The Dawn of a Tomorrow | Dandy | 1915-06-07 |
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The Fatal Card | Gerald Austen | 1915-09-30 |
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One of Our Girls | M. Henri De St. Hillaire | 1914-06-10 |
