David Powell

from Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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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.

Timeline

1924Aged 41

  • Poster for The Man Without a Heart

    Edmund Hyde

  • Poster for The Average Woman

    Rudolph Van Alten

  • Poster for Virtuous Liars

    Norman Wright

1923Aged 40

  • Poster for The Glimpses of the Moon

    Nick Lansing

  • Poster for Fog Bound

    Roger Wainright

  • Poster for The Green Goddess

    Dr. Traherne

1922Aged 39

  • Poster for Love's Boomerang

    Brian McCree

  • Poster for Her Gilded Cage

    Arnold Pell

  • Poster for The Spanish Jade

    Gil Pérez

  • Poster for The Siren Call

    Ralph Stevens

  • Poster for Missing Millions

    Boston Blackie

  • Poster for Anna Ascends

    The Baron

1921Aged 38

  • Poster for The Princess of New York

    Geoffrey Kingsward

  • Poster for Dangerous Lies

    Sir Henry Bond

  • Poster for The Mystery Road

    Gerald Dombey

1920Aged 37

  • Poster for On with the Dance

    Peter Derwynt

  • Poster for Lady Rose's Daughter

    Captain Warkworth

  • Poster for The Right to Love

    Colonel Richard Loring

  • Poster for Idols of Clay

    Dion Holme

1919Aged 36

  • Poster for His Parisian Wife

    Martin Wesley

  • Poster for The Woman Under Oath

    Edward Knox

  • Poster for The Firing Line

    Louis Malcourt

  • Poster for The Teeth of the Tiger

    Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)

  • Poster for Counterfeit

    Stuart Kent

1918Aged 35

  • Poster for The Impostor

    Blake Walford

  • Poster for The Lie

    Gerald Forster

  • Poster for The Richest Girl

    Paul Normand

  • Poster for A Romance of the Underworld

    Richard Elliott

  • Poster for Her Husband's Honor

    Richard Page

  • Poster for Her Great Chance

    Charles Cox

  • Poster for The Make-Believe Wife

    John Manning

  • Poster for Marriage

    Jack Spencer

1917Aged 34

  • Poster for The Price She Paid

    Donald Keith

  • Poster for Maternity

    John Locke

  • Poster for Outcast

    Geoffrey Sherwood

  • Poster for The Beautiful Adventure

    Andre

  • Poster for The Unforseen

    Walter Maxwell

1916Aged 33

  • Poster for Gloria's Romance

    Richard Freneau - A Broker

  • Poster for Less Than the Dust

    Capt. Richard Townsend

1915Aged 32

  • Poster for The Dawn of a Tomorrow

    Dandy

  • Poster for Fine Feathers

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Fatal Card

    Gerald Austen

1914Aged 31

  • Poster for One of Our Girls

    M. Henri De St. Hillaire