David Powell
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Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Birthday: December 17, 1883
Deathday: April 16, 1925
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Gender: Male
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One of Our Girls
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-10
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The Make-Believe Wife
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-17
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The Lie
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-08
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His Parisian Wife
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-19
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Counterfeit
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-30
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Lady Rose's Daughter
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-29
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The Fatal Card
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-30
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The Firing Line
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-06
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A Romance of the Underworld
Overview: Convent raised Doris Elliott moves to New York to live with her brother Richard not knowing that he is part of a drug trafficking ring controlled by unscrupulous ward boss Michael O'Leary. At first Doris remains ignorant of the pervasiveness of crime and corruption in the Lower East Side until her friend, Mamie Bronson, whose brother, "Dopey Benny," has fallen victim to drugs, confesses that O'Leary has raped her. When O'Leary breaks into their home and attempts to rape her as well, he is shot when Richard unexpectedly arrives. Finding O'Leary dead and Richard unconscious, the police arrest Doris, and she is tried for murder. Defense lawyer Thomas McDonald, who has been working to expose the politician, is losing his case when Dopey Benny testifies that he killed O'Leary to avenge his sister's assault. Acquitted Doris is now free to marry Thomas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-30
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The Spanish Jade
Overview: When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-10
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Missing Millions
Overview: A girl seeks revenge after a Wall Street broker had falsely accused her father and sent him unjustly to prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-17
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The Unforseen
Overview: 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.....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-21
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The Right to Love
Overview: An adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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The Man Without a Heart
Overview: When Rufus Asher suspects that Barbara Wier is plotting with his sister's husband, Edmund Hyde, he abducts Barbara and takes her to a lonely mountain retreat. Mistaking Rufus for a vagabond, Barbara shoots him, then nurses him back to health, explaining that she and Edmund were trying to stop an elopement of Edmund's wife with another man, Hugh Langley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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The Teeth of the Tiger
Overview: Living quietly under the assumed name Paul Sernine, reformed gentleman crook Arsene Lupin is summoned to protect his invalid, wealthy friend Henry Forbes.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-02
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Anna Ascends
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-20
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The Green Goddess
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-13
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Fog Bound
Overview: Silent film directed by Irvin Willat
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-27
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Less Than the Dust
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-04
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On with the Dance
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-15
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The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Overview: 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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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-07
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The Woman Under Oath
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-06-29
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The Average Woman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Idols of Clay
Overview: A girl raised isolated from society in the South Seas falls in love with a visiting sculptor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-28
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The Siren Call
Overview: Love complicates the hunt for gold in 1890's Alaska.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-17
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The Glimpses of the Moon
Overview: The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-25
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Gloria's Romance
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-22
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Her Gilded Cage
Overview: A romance about a dancer seeking love and fame from Paris cabarets to New York society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-05
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Dangerous Lies
Overview: A widow's husband returns after her second marriage, and dies while assaulting her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-18
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The Mystery Road
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-10
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Her Husband's Honor
Overview: Nancy Page is a frivolous socialite until her husband Richard becomes entangled in his employer David Davenport's shady business dealings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-05
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The Beautiful Adventure
Overview: Helene De Travillac, a sweat little French girl, loves her handsome cousin, Andre D'Eguzon, but a scheming aunt has engaged her to Valentin LeBarroyer, a methodical, statistic-loving "stick," but wealthy. On the wedding morning Andre suddenly appears on the scene and pleads with Helene. She hesitates, a little, tears off her veil and flees with her lover to her old home in the country. There her grandmother makes the natural mistake of thinking Andre is the husband. The resulting complications are amusing. Finally arrives the discarded Valentin, hunting for his bride. When he dins her he proves himself a man, and "The Beautiful Adventure" ends happily for the lovers. This film is presumably lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-10-15
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Outcast
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-10
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Marriage
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-25
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The Impostor
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-14
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The Richest Girl
Overview: A girl needs to marry by a year to get her aunt's money but her fiancé has left. After getting permission from her godfather for a "white wedding," she realizes she loves the godfather instead.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-08
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The Princess of New York
Overview: A US steel king pawns the gems of his daughter who is loved by a student and a crook.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-01
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Maternity
Overview: Because of the loss of three generations of women in her family during childbirth Ellen Locke is frightened to have kids. Frustrated by her decision, her husband John finds himself drawn to his old love, Constance, now a widow with a child who bears her name. After her sister Marion dies in childbirth, Ellen becomes more obsessed, however one day when Ellen is driving little Constance home they have a car accident. An incident in the hospital changes her perspective leading to a reconciliation with John.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-28
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