David Powell

David Powell

Born: December 17, 1883
Died: April 16, 1925
in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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.

Movies for David Powell...

The Average Woman
Title: The Average Woman
Character: Rudolph Van Alten
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather material for his article, and eventually falls in love with her. Her father, Judge Whipple, doesn't like it; he has Jimmy arrested and allows him to see Sally only once a week. Meanwhile, disreputable businessman Van Alten is after Sally, and tries to pressure her into marrying him by threatening to release letters he says will embarrass her father.
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The Man Without a Heart
Title: The Man Without a Heart
Released: January 1, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Green Goddess
Title: The Green Goddess
Character: Dr. Traherne
Released: August 13, 1923
Type: Movie
The Green Goddess is a 1923 American silent adventure film based on the play The Green Goddess by William Archer. Set during the British Raj, it stars George Arliss as the Rajah of Rukh, into whose land arrive three British subjects, played by Alice Joyce, David Powell, and Harry T. Morey.
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Fog Bound
Title: Fog Bound
Character: Roger Wainright
Released: May 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Silent film directed by Irvin Willat
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The Glimpses of the Moon
Title: The Glimpses of the Moon
Character: Nick Lansing
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.
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Anna Ascends
Title: Anna Ascends
Character: The Baron
Released: November 20, 1922
Type: Movie
While working in Siad Coury’s coffeehouse in a Syrian neighborhood of New York City, Syrian immigrant Anna Ayyob falls in love with reporter, Howard Fisk, who is investigating a jewel smuggling ring. When she discovers that her co-worker, “The Baron,” is involved with international thieves Count and Countess Rostoff, Anna telephones Howard with the information, but the Baron attacks her. During the encounter, she believes she accidentally kills him, and disappears. Three years later, after anonymously writing a widely popular novel called Anna Ascends, based on her own life, Anna again meets Howard Fisk. To save Howard’s sister, Bessie Fisk, from marrying Count Rostoff, Anna exposes the jewel thief and confesses to the Baron’s murder. Fortunately, Howard’s investigation discloses that the Baron is very much alive. Her named cleared, Anna marries Howard.
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The Siren Call
Title: The Siren Call
Character: Ralph Stevens
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
Love complicates the hunt for gold in 1890's Alaska.
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Missing Millions
Title: Missing Millions
Character: Boston Blackie
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
A girl seeks revenge after a Wall Street broker had falsely accused her father and sent him unjustly to prison.
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The Spanish Jade
Title: The Spanish Jade
Character: Gil Pérez
Released: April 10, 1922
Type: Movie
When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his freedom.
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Her Gilded Cage
Title: Her Gilded Cage
Character: Arnold Pell
Released: April 5, 1922
Type: Movie
A romance about a dancer seeking love and fame from Paris cabarets to New York society.
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Dangerous Lies
Title: Dangerous Lies
Character: Sir Henry Bond
Released: September 18, 1921
Type: Movie
A widow's husband returns after her second marriage, and dies while assaulting her.
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The Mystery Road
Title: The Mystery Road
Released: July 10, 1921
Type: Movie
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Idols of Clay
Title: Idols of Clay
Character: Dion Holme
Released: November 28, 1920
Type: Movie
A girl raised isolated from society in the South Seas falls in love with a visiting sculptor.
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The Right to Love
Title: The Right to Love
Character: Colonel Richard Loring
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
An adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.
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Lady Rose's Daughter
Title: Lady Rose's Daughter
Character: Captain Warkworth
Released: August 29, 1920
Type: Movie
Julie le Breton is the illegitimate daughter of Lady Rose, whose own background resembles that of her daughter. Julie is buffeted by the ill treatment of her mother's family and nearly ruined by a fortune hunter, but her own resources and goodness stand her in good stead.
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On with the Dance
Title: On with the Dance
Character: Peter Derwynt
Released: February 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Sonia, a Russian dancer, comes to New York seeking her fortune. She marries Peter Derwynt, a young architect, but their marriage is not a good one. Sonia falls under the spell of a rich Broadway mogul, Jimmy Sutherland, whose wife is in love with Peter. The mix of relationships comes crashing apart when Sutherland ends up murdered.
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Counterfeit
Title: Counterfeit
Character: Stuart Kent
Released: November 30, 1919
Type: Movie
In order to secretly replenish the family's failing fortunes, Virginia Griswold secures a position in the Secret Service to apprehend a group of counterfeiters and gain the reward money.
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The Teeth of the Tiger
Title: The Teeth of the Tiger
Character: Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
Released: November 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Living quietly under the assumed name Paul Sernine, reformed gentleman crook Arsene Lupin is summoned to protect his invalid, wealthy friend Henry Forbes.
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The Firing Line
Title: The Firing Line
Character: Louis Malcourt
Released: July 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Sheila Cardross Malcourt shares only a loveless marriage with Louis Malcourt, but is unwilling to divorce him even to marry the man she really loves, for fear of hurting her foster parents. Instead, she stifles her feelings for Garry Hamil and strives to maintain her marriage. But when tragedy ensues, she finds herself faced with a new dilemma.
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The Woman Under Oath
Title: The Woman Under Oath
Character: Edward Knox
Released: June 29, 1919
Type: Movie
After a forward introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, Jim O'Neil, a young shipping clerk, is found holding a revolver over his dead employer, Edward Knox. The celebrated novelist Grace Norton, selected to be on the jury at Jim's trial, becomes the first woman juror in New York.
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His Parisian Wife
Title: His Parisian Wife
Character: Martin Wesley
Released: January 19, 1919
Type: Movie
A beautiful young French girl falls in love with a handsome New Englander, but when they marry and return to his family home, she finds that she does not fit in at all.
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The Make-Believe Wife
Title: The Make-Believe Wife
Character: John Manning
Released: November 17, 1918
Type: Movie
Several young couples have gathered at a vacation home in the mountains. The group of friends go climbing, but Phyllis Ashbrook and John Manning leave the others behind. They get lost and have to spend the night in a cabin. When they are brought back the next day, appearances compel them to marry, even though they are already engaged to others.
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Her Husband's Honor
Title: Her Husband's Honor
Character: Richard Page
Released: August 5, 1918
Type: Movie
Nancy Page is a frivolous socialite until her husband Richard becomes entangled in his employer David Davenport's shady business dealings.
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A Romance of the Underworld
Title: A Romance of the Underworld
Released: June 30, 1918
Type: Movie
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The Lie
Title: The Lie
Character: Gerald Forster
Released: April 8, 1918
Type: Movie
Elinor Shale's happiness at being engaged to Gerald Forster is interrupted by the arrival of her sister Lucy, who confesses that she will soon give birth to an illegitimate child. Elinor goes into seclusion with her sister until the baby is born and then tries to find a foster mother. Seeking to estrange Gerald from Elinor so that she may marry him herself, Lucy convinces him that Elinor is the child's mother. After Lucy and Gerald's marriage, Elinor learns of her sister's perfidy and resolves to tell Gerald the truth, but at the sight of their happiness, she relents and returns home.
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The Unforseen
Title: The Unforseen
Character: Walter Maxwell
Released: October 21, 1917
Type: Movie
On the eve of her elopement with Henry Traquair, Margaret Fielding is accidentally discovered in Traquair's apartments by his friends, Captain Richard Haynes and Walter Maxwell.....
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Less Than the Dust
Title: Less Than the Dust
Character: Capt. Richard Townsend
Released: November 4, 1916
Type: Movie
Young Hindu woman Radha, becomes best friends with Captain Raymond Townsend during his service in India, but he soon goes back to England to tend to the estate of an uncle who has just died. Then, Ramlan, the sword maker who raised Radha, is arrested for taking part in an anti-British uprising, and before he goes to jail, he decides to tell Radha the story of her birth, her real father, Captain Brooke, died of a drug overdose, and her destitute mother then entrusted her to Ramlan. After learning about her background, Radha goes to England to claim her rightful inheritance from the estate of her late grandfather, who is also Raymond's uncle. Raymond is delighted to discover that his Hindu friend is really a white woman, and after dividing the estate with Radha, he brings the fortune back together by marrying her.
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Gloria's Romance
Title: Gloria's Romance
Character: Richard Freneau - A Broker
Released: May 22, 1916
Type: Movie
An adventurous young girl in Florida gets herself lost in the Everglades and finds terror and excitement, as well as the rivalry of two men in love with her.
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The Fatal Card
Title: The Fatal Card
Character: Gerald Austen
Released: September 30, 1915
Type: Movie
A notorious gambler and card cheat, George Forrester, rules a little western town with an iron hand. The men of the town plot to catch him cheating and do, but his men save him from danger. In the same town lives Gerald Austen, or Aitkens, who had left his tyrannical father in the east and made good in the west.
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The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Title: The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Character: Dandy
Released: June 7, 1915
Type: Movie
A young girl who lives in the slums of London, is in love with a thief. She persuades him to give up his life of crime. Meanwhile, an eccentric millionaire, who has been diagnosed with an incurable dementia, becomes so despondent, he decides to commit suicide. He disguises himself as a vagrant, and wanders into the slums. As he tries to find the courage to kill himself, he is encountered by the young girl. She rationalizes him out of the cowardly act. Her genuine sweetness and strong faith, effects him to such an extent, he begins to believe a recovery is possible. Now the girl's sweetheart has been falsely accused of murder and only the millionaire's licentious nephew can give him an alibi.
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One of Our Girls
Title: One of Our Girls
Character: M. Henri De St. Hillaire
Released: June 10, 1914
Type: Movie
The "girl" of the title was played by Hazel Dawn, a popular stage actress who briefly enjoyed a flourishing film career. Dawn plays Miss Shipley, an American girl vacationing in France. Our heroine finds herself the romantic bone of contention between two "men of the world" (William Roselle and Hal Clarendon), who end up fighting a duel over her affections.