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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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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Fog Bound | Roger Wainright | 1923-05-27 |
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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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Missing Millions | Boston Blackie | 1922-09-17 |
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The Siren Call | Ralph Stevens | 1922-09-17 |
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The Spanish Jade | Gil Pérez | 1922-04-10 |
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Her Gilded Cage | Arnold Pell | 1922-04-05 |
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Anna Ascends | The Baron | 1922-11-20 |
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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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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 Right to Love | Colonel Richard Loring | 1920-09-05 |
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Counterfeit | Stuart Kent | 1919-11-30 |
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The Teeth of the Tiger | Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin) | 1919-11-02 |
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The Woman Under Oath | Edward Knox | 1919-06-29 |
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The Firing Line | Louis Malcourt | 1919-07-06 |
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His Parisian Wife | Martin Wesley | 1919-01-19 |
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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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Her Husband's Honor | Richard Page | 1918-08-05 |
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The Lie | Gerald Forster | 1918-04-08 |
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Marriage | Jack Spencer | 1918-11-25 |
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The Make-Believe Wife | John Manning | 1918-11-17 |
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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 Beautiful Adventure | Andre | 1917-10-15 |
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Maternity | John Locke | 1917-05-28 |
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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 Fatal Card | Gerald Austen | 1915-09-30 |
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The Dawn of a Tomorrow | Dandy | 1915-06-07 |
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One of Our Girls | M. Henri De St. Hillaire | 1914-06-10 |
