David Powell (actor)
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David Powell | |
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Born | |
Died | April 16, 1925 New York City, U.S. | (aged 41)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1912–1925 |
Spouse(s) | Violet E. Powell |
David Powell (December 17, 1883 – April 16, 1925) was a Scottish stage and later film actor of the silent era.
Background[]
He was born in Glasgow. 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 New York City, New York, in April 1925, at the age of 42. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Selected filmography[]
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- One of Our Girls (1914)
- The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915)
- Gloria's Romance (1916)
- Less Than the Dust (1916)
- Outcast (1917)
- The Beautiful Adventure (1917)
- The Unforseen (1917)
- The Price She Paid (1917)
- Maternity (1917)
- The Lie (1918)
- Her Husband's Honor (1918)
- Her Great Chance (1918)
- His Parisian Wife (1919)
- The Woman Under Oath (1919)
- Counterfeit (1919)
- On with the Dance (1920)
- Right to Love (1920)
- Lady Rose's Daughter (1920)
- Idols of Clay (1920)
- Appearances (1921)
- The Mystery Road (1921)
- The Princess of New York (1921)
- Dangerous Lies (1921)
- Her Gilded Cage (1922)
- Love's Boomerang (1922)
- The Spanish Jade (1922)
- Outcast (1922)
- The Green Goddess (1923)
- The Truth About Women (1924)
- The Man Without a Heart (1924)
- The Average Woman (1924)
- Lend Me Your Husband (1924)
- Virtuous Liars (1924)
- The Lost Chord (1925)
- Back to Life (1925)
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- 1883 births
- 1925 deaths
- Scottish male silent film actors
- Scottish male film actors
- People from Glasgow
- Scottish emigrants to the United States
- 20th-century Scottish male actors