Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1883-12-17
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
as Norman Wright
as Capt. Richard Townsend
as Charles Cox
as The Baron
as Richard Page
as Ralph Stevens
as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
as Brian McCree
as John Manning
as Colonel Richard Loring
as Donald Keith
as Sir Henry Bond
as M. Henri De St. Hillaire
as Arnold Pell
as Blake Walford
as Edward Knox
as Richard Freneau - A Broker
as Stuart Kent
as Dr. Traherne
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