Frank Powell

Birthday: 1887-05-08
Deathday: 1964-04-10
Birthplace: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male

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.

Credits

Year Title
From the Valley of the Missing
1921-04-23 Astray from the Steerage
1919-11-17 You Never Know Your Luck
1918-03-01 Heart of the Sunset
1917-05-07 Hedda Gabler
1917-04-23 The Debt
1917-04-09 Mrs. Balfame
1917-03-26 Motherhood
1917-02-26 The Greater Woman
1916-10-23 The Scarlet Oath
1916-04-24 The Chain Invisible
1916-02-27 The Witch
1915-06-16 The Devil's Daughter
1915-05-04 Her Grandparents
1915-01-12 A Fool There Was
1914-12-25 Officer 666
1914-10-28 His Last Dollar
1914-08-01 Man's Enemy
1914-07-17 The Stain
1914-05-21 A Fair Rebel
1913-12-22 For Her Government
1910-12-22 White Roses
1910-11-24 His New Lid
1910-11-17 Love in Quarantine
1910-10-13 A Lucky Toothache
1910-10-13 The Masher
1910-10-06 A Gold Necklace
1910-09-01 Muggsy Becomes a Hero
1910-08-18 When We Were in Our 'Teens
1910-06-20 Never Again
1910-06-20 May and December
1910-05-19 An Affair of Hearts
1910-04-21 The Tenderfoot's Triumph
1910-04-14 The Kid
1910-03-31 The Smoker
1910-01-13 All on Account of the Milk