David Powell
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.
Movie Appearances
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
The Fatal Card
as Gerald Austen
1915
The Firing Line
as Louis Malcourt
1919
A Romance of the Underworld
as Richard Elliott
1918
The Spanish Jade
as Gil Pérez
1922
Missing Millions
as Boston Blackie
1922
The Right to Love
as Colonel Richard Loring
1920
The Unforseen
as Walter Maxwell
1917
The Man Without a Heart
as Edmund Hyde
1924
The Teeth of the Tiger
as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
1919
Anna Ascends
as The Baron
1922
The Green Goddess
as Dr. Traherne
1923
Fog Bound
as Roger Wainright
1923
Less Than the Dust
as Capt. Richard Townsend
1916
On with the Dance
as Peter Derwynt
1920