David Powell
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Less Than the Dust
1916
as Capt. Richard Townsend
Marriage
1918
as Jack Spencer
Counterfeit
1919
as Stuart Kent
The Princess of New York
1921
as Geoffrey Kingsward
Gloria's Romance
1916
as Richard Freneau - A Broker
The Spanish Jade
1922
as Gil Pérez
Maternity
1917
as John Locke
The Woman Under Oath
1919
as Edward Knox
Idols of Clay
1920
as Dion Holme
On with the Dance
1920
as Peter Derwynt
The Make-Believe Wife
1918
as John Manning
The Green Goddess
1923
as Dr. Traherne
The Glimpses of the Moon
1923
as Nick Lansing
Lady Rose's Daughter
1920
as Captain Warkworth
Outcast
1917
as Geoffrey Sherwood
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
1915
as Dandy
His Parisian Wife
1919
as Martin Wesley
Anna Ascends
1922
as The Baron
The Unforseen
1917
as Walter Maxwell
The Siren Call
1922
as Ralph Stevens