Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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. He later appeared with Forbes-Robertson in the United States and decided to stay in that country.