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 Average Woman | Rudolph Van Alten | 1924-03-01 |
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The Man Without a Heart | Edmund Hyde | 1924-01-01 |
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The Glimpses of the Moon | Nick Lansing | 1923-03-25 |
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The Green Goddess | Dr. Traherne | 1923-08-13 |
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Fog Bound | Roger Wainright | 1923-05-27 |
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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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Anna Ascends | The Baron | 1922-11-20 |
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The Spanish Jade | Gil Pérez | 1922-04-10 |
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Love's Boomerang | Brian McCree | 1922-02-19 |
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Her Gilded Cage | Arnold Pell | 1922-04-05 |
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The Princess of New York | Geoffrey Kingsward | 1921-06-01 |
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Dangerous Lies | Sir Henry Bond | 1921-09-18 |
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The Mystery Road | 1921-07-10 | |
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Idols of Clay | Dion Holme | 1920-11-28 |
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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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Lady Rose's Daughter | Captain Warkworth | 1920-08-29 |
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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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Counterfeit | Stuart Kent | 1919-11-30 |
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The Firing Line | Louis Malcourt | 1919-07-06 |
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The Teeth of the Tiger | Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin) | 1919-11-02 |
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Marriage | Jack Spencer | 1918-11-25 |
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Her Husband's Honor | Richard Page | 1918-08-05 |
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The Richest Girl | Paul Normand | 1918-04-08 |
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Her Great Chance | Charles Cox | 1918-10-07 |
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The Make-Believe Wife | John Manning | 1918-11-17 |
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The Lie | Gerald Forster | 1918-04-08 |
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A Romance of the Underworld | Richard Elliott | 1918-06-30 |
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The Impostor | Blake Walford | 1918-01-14 |
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The Price She Paid | Donald Keith | 1917-02-12 |
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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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Outcast | Geoffrey Sherwood | 1917-09-10 |
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The Unforseen | Walter Maxwell | 1917-10-21 |
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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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The Dawn of a Tomorrow | Dandy | 1915-06-07 |
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Fine Feathers | 1915-06-14 | |
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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 |
