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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1883-12-17 (141 years old)

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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.

Known For

Acting

1924

The Average Woman as Rudolph Van Alten

1923

The Green Goddess as Dr. Traherne
Fog Bound as Roger Wainright
The Glimpses of the Moon as Nick Lansing

1922

The Spanish Jade as Gil Pérez
Missing Millions as Boston Blackie
Anna Ascends as The Baron
The Siren Call as Ralph Stevens
Her Gilded Cage as Arnold Pell

1921

Dangerous Lies as Sir Henry Bond
The Princess of New York as Geoffrey Kingsward

1920

Lady Rose's Daughter as Captain Warkworth
The Right to Love as Colonel Richard Loring
On with the Dance as Peter Derwynt
Idols of Clay as Dion Holme

1919

His Parisian Wife as Martin Wesley
Counterfeit as Stuart Kent
The Firing Line as Louis Malcourt
The Teeth of the Tiger as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
The Woman Under Oath as Edward Knox

1918

The Make-Believe Wife as John Manning
The Lie as Gerald Forster
A Romance of the Underworld as Richard Elliott
Her Husband's Honor as Richard Page
Marriage as Jack Spencer
The Impostor as Blake Walford
The Richest Girl as Paul Normand

1917

The Unforseen as Walter Maxwell
Outcast as Geoffrey Sherwood
Maternity as John Locke

1916

Less Than the Dust as Capt. Richard Townsend
Gloria's Romance as Richard Freneau - A Broker

1915

The Fatal Card as Gerald Austen

1914

One of Our Girls as M. Henri De St. Hillaire