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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 17, 1883
Died
April 16, 1925
Place of Birth
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
David Powell
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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.
Known For
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Rudolph Van Alten
The Average Woman
1924
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Edmund Hyde
The Man Without a Heart
1924
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Dr. Traherne
The Green Goddess
1923
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Roger Wainright
Fog Bound
1923
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Nick Lansing
The Glimpses of the Moon
1923
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The Baron
Anna Ascends
1922
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Boston Blackie
Missing Millions
1922
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Ralph Stevens
The Siren Call
1922
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Gil Pérez
The Spanish Jade
1922
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Arnold Pell
Her Gilded Cage
1922
Credits
The Average Woman
as Rudolph Van Alten
1924
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The Man Without a Heart
as Edmund Hyde
1924
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The Green Goddess
as Dr. Traherne
1923
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Fog Bound
as Roger Wainright
1923
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The Glimpses of the Moon
as Nick Lansing
1923
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Anna Ascends
as The Baron
1922
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Missing Millions
as Boston Blackie
1922
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The Siren Call
as Ralph Stevens
1922
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The Spanish Jade
as Gil Pérez
1922
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Her Gilded Cage
as Arnold Pell
1922
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Dangerous Lies
as Sir Henry Bond
1921
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The Mystery Road
1921
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The Princess of New York
as Geoffrey Kingsward
1921
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Idols of Clay
as Dion Holme
1920
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The Right to Love
as Colonel Richard Loring
1920
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Lady Rose's Daughter
as Captain Warkworth
1920
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On with the Dance
as Peter Derwynt
1920
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Counterfeit
as Stuart Kent
1919
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The Teeth of the Tiger
as Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
1919
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The Firing Line
as Louis Malcourt
1919
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The Woman Under Oath
as Edward Knox
1919
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His Parisian Wife
as Martin Wesley
1919
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Marriage
as Jack Spencer
1918
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The Make-Believe Wife
as John Manning
1918
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Her Husband's Honor
as Richard Page
1918
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A Romance of the Underworld
as Richard Elliott
1918
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The Lie
as Gerald Forster
1918
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The Richest Girl
as Paul Normand
1918
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The Impostor
as Blake Walford
1918
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The Unforseen
as Walter Maxwell
1917
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The Beautiful Adventure
as Andre
1917
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Outcast
as Geoffrey Sherwood
1917
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Maternity
as John Locke
1917
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Less Than the Dust
as Capt. Richard Townsend
1916
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Gloria's Romance
as Richard Freneau - A Broker
1916
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The Fatal Card
as Gerald Austen
1915
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The Dawn of a Tomorrow
as Dandy
1915
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One of Our Girls
as M. Henri De St. Hillaire
1914
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