Frank Powell

Acting

Frank Powell

Born 1887-05-08 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 34 films

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.

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Filmography

34 films
The Impalement poster

Bored by a doting wife who is too eager to please (she even puts a cigar in his mouth and lights it…

The Impalement

★ 0.0 1910

Faithful poster

Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner w…

Faithful

★ 4.5 1910

The Newlyweds poster

A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two s…

The Newlyweds

★ 5.0 1910

The Man poster

Mildred lives with her husband, the prospector Steve Clark, in an out-of-the-way cabin in the mount…

The Man

★ 0.0 1910

The Last Deal poster

Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwo…

The Last Deal

★ 0.0 1910