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David Powell
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
On with the Dance
as Peter Derwynt
Dangerous Lies
as Sir Henry Bond
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
as Dandy
The Make-Believe Wife
as John Manning
Anna Ascends
as The Baron
Fog Bound
as Roger Wainright
The Man Without a Heart
as Edmund Hyde
Outcast
as Geoffrey Sherwood
Counterfeit
as Stuart Kent
Less Than the Dust
as Capt. Richard Townsend