David Powell
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.
Acting
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The Average Woman
as Rudolph Van Alten
1924
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On with the Dance
as Peter Derwynt
1920
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The Spanish Jade
as Gil Pérez
1922
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The Green Goddess
as Dr. Traherne
1923
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Less Than the Dust
as Capt. Richard Townsend
1916
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The Woman Under Oath
as Edward Knox
1919
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Dangerous Lies
as Sir Henry Bond
1921
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The Mystery Road
as Gerald Dombey
1921
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The Princess of New York
as Geoffrey Kingsward
1921
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His Parisian Wife
as Martin Wesley
1919
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Counterfeit
as Stuart Kent
1919
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Lady Rose's Daughter
as Captain Warkworth
1920
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The Firing Line
as Louis Malcourt
1919
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Missing Millions
as Boston Blackie
1922
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The Right to Love
as Colonel Richard Loring
1920
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The Unforseen
as Walter Maxwell
1917
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The Man Without a Heart
as Edmund Hyde
1924
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The Teeth of the Tiger
as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
1919
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Anna Ascends
as The Baron
1922
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Fog Bound
as Roger Wainright
1923
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The Dawn of a Tomorrow
as Dandy
1915
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Idols of Clay
as Dion Holme
1920
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The Siren Call
as Ralph Stevens
1922
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The Glimpses of the Moon
as Nick Lansing
1923