Person Details

Birthday:

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Homepage:

Movie Involvements: 26

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

The Spanish Jade
Average
6

The Spanish Jade

(1922) Gil Pérez
Dangerous Lies
Average
6

Dangerous Lies

(1921) Sir Henry Bond
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Average
7

The Dawn of a Tomorrow

(1915) Dandy
Less Than the Dust
Average
3

Less Than the Dust

(1916) Capt. Richard Townsend
The Right to Love
Average
0

The Right to Love

(1920) Colonel Richard Loring
Gloria's Romance
Average
6

Gloria's Romance

(1916) Richard Freneau - A Broker
The Glimpses of the Moon
Average
0

The Glimpses of the Moon

(1923) Nick Lansing
The Teeth of the Tiger
Average
0

The Teeth of the Tiger

(1919) Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1924 Rudolph Van Alten
1923 Dr. Traherne
Roger Wainright
Nick Lansing
1922 Ralph Stevens
Boston Blackie
Gil Pérez
Arnold Pell
1921 Sir Henry Bond
N/A
1920 Dion Holme
Colonel Richard Loring
Captain Warkworth
Peter Derwynt
1919 Stuart Kent
Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
Louis Malcourt
Edward Knox
Martin Wesley
1918 John Manning
Richard Page
N/A
Gerald Forster
1917 Walter Maxwell
1916 Capt. Richard Townsend
Richard Freneau - A Broker
1915 Gerald Austen
Dandy
1914 M. Henri De St. Hillaire
Year Character Movie/Tv

Join the discussion

Please Log in to comment