Name
Frank Powell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1887-05-08
Deathday
1964-04-10 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Biography
Frank Powell was a Canadian-born stage and silent film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter who worked predominantly in the United States. After getting his start acting in D.W. Griffith films, he cast Theda Bara in her breakout role in the 1915 release A Fool There Was. Powell would continue to direct Bara at Fox while she became an international star as the film industry's most popular vamp.
Known For
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John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to...
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On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the p...
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While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. ...
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In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves...
- 1915 A Fool There Was as The Doctor
- 1909 A Corner in Wheat as The Wheat King
- 1909 The Mended Lute as Chief Great Elk Horn
- 1909 The Country Doctor as Doctor Harcourt
- 1909 A Strange Meeting as A Thief
- 1909 Nursing a Viper as The Viper
- 1909 The Indian Runner's Romance as The Old Prospector
- 1909 The Broken Locket as George Peabody
- 1909 Lines of White on a Sullen Sea as The Doctor
- 1909 The Cardinal's Conspiracy as A Visiting Nobleman
- 1909 Fools of Fate as Ed Hilton
- 1910 The Rocky Road as Ben
- 1910 In Old California as Governor Manuella
- 1909 His Duty as Jack Allen
- 1909 Tender Hearts as A Handsome Chap
- 1909 In the Watches of the Night as Henry Brainhard
- 1910 The Impalement
- 1910 The Man as Steve Clark
- 1955 Film Fun as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1909 Sweet Revenge as Alice's Father
- 1909 The Faded Lilies as At Party
- 1909 The Way of Man as Wedding Guest
- 1909 The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period as Oliver Cromwell
- 1909 The Necklace as Employer / Party Guest
- 1910 The Last Deal as At Card Game
- 1910 Faithful as The Butler
- 1910 The Oath and the Man
- 1909 The Light That Came as At the Ball
- 1914 The Second Generation as Hugo Reid - the Son
- 1909 Mr. Jones' Burglar as At Club
- 1910 The Newlyweds as A Friend / At Station Reception
- 1909 The Seventh Day as The Judge
- 1911 A Knight of the Road
