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David Powell
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 er…
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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.
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1924
Virtuous Liars
Movie Norman Wright
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1924
The Average Woman
Movie Rudolph Van Alten
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1924
The Man Without a Heart
Movie Edmund Hyde
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1923
The Green Goddess
Movie Dr. Traherne
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1923
Fog Bound
Movie Roger Wainright
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1923
The Glimpses of the Moon
Movie Nick Lansing
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1922
Anna Ascends
Movie The Baron
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1922
The Siren Call
Movie Ralph Stevens
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1922
Missing Millions
Movie Boston Blackie
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1922
The Spanish Jade
Movie Gil Pérez
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1922
Her Gilded Cage
Movie Arnold Pell
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1922
Love's Boomerang
Movie Brian McCree
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1921
The Mystery Road
Movie Gerald Dombey
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1921
Dangerous Lies
Movie Sir Henry Bond
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1921
The Princess of New York
Movie Geoffrey Kingsward
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1920
Idols of Clay
Movie Dion Holme
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1920
The Right to Love
Movie Colonel Richard Loring
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1920
Lady Rose's Daughter
Movie Captain Warkworth
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1920
On with the Dance
Movie Peter Derwynt
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1919
Counterfeit
Movie Stuart Kent
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1919
The Teeth of the Tiger
Movie Paul Sernine (aka Arsene Lupin)
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1919
The Firing Line
Movie Louis Malcourt
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1919
The Woman Under Oath
Movie Edward Knox
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1919
His Parisian Wife
Movie Martin Wesley
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1918
Marriage
Movie Jack Spencer
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1918
The Make-Believe Wife
Movie John Manning
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1918
Her Great Chance
Movie Charles Cox
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1918
Her Husband's Honor
Movie Richard Page
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1918
A Romance of the Underworld
Movie Richard Elliott
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1918
The Richest Girl
Movie Paul Normand
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1918
The Lie
Movie Gerald Forster
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1918
The Impostor
Movie Blake Walford
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1917
The Unforseen
Movie Walter Maxwell
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1917
The Beautiful Adventure
Movie Andre
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1917
Outcast
Movie Geoffrey Sherwood
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1917
Maternity
Movie John Locke
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1917
The Price She Paid
Movie Donald Keith
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1916
Less Than the Dust
Movie Capt. Richard Townsend
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1916
Gloria's Romance
Movie Richard Freneau - A Broker
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1915
The Fatal Card
Movie Gerald Austen
