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    • Source: David Powell (actor)

      • 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. 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 New York City, New York, in April 1925, at the age of 41. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


      Partial filmography




      External links



      David Powell at IMDb
      David Powell at the Internet Broadway Database
      On David Powell's mustache
      still of a scene from Lady Rose's Daughter(1920) with Powell, Elsie Ferguson and Ida Waterman
      Powell with Billie Burke; in Gloria's Romance

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