David Powell

David Powell (December 17, 1883 – April 16, 1925) was a Scottish stage and later film actor of the silent era.

Background He was born in Glasgow. 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. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Partial filmography

One of Our Girls (1914) The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915) The Fatal Card (1915) Gloria's Romance (1916) Less Than the Dust (1916) Outcast (1917) The Beautiful Adventure (1917) The Unforeseen (1917) The Price She Paid (1917) Maternity (1917) The Lie (1918) Her Husband's Honor (1918) The Better Half (1918) Her Great Chance (1918) His Parisian Wife (1919) The Woman Under Oath (1919) The Firing Line (1919) The Teeth of the Tiger (1919) Counterfeit (1919) On with the Dance (1920) Right to Love (1920) Lady Rose's Daughter (1920) Idols of Clay (1920) Appearances (1921) The Mystery Road (1921) The Princess of New York (1921) Dangerous Lies (1921) Her Gilded Cage (1922) Love's Boomerang (1922) The Spanish Jade (1922) The Siren Call (1922) Missing Millions (1922) Outcast (1922) Fog Bound (1923) The Green Goddess (1923) The Truth About Women (1924) The Man Without a Heart (1924) The Average Woman (1924) Lend Me Your Husband (1924) Virtuous Liars (1924) The Lost Chord (1925) Back to Life (1925)