Frank Powell

Frank Powell

Birthday: 1887-05-08
Deathday: 1964-04-10
Place of birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Also know as: Francis William Powell

Bio

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.

Movies with Frank Powell

A Fool There Was

1915
As The Doctor
A Corner in Wheat

1909
As The Wheat King
The Mended Lute

1909
As Chief Great Elk Horn
The Son's Return

1909
As In Bank
Over Silent Paths

1910
As
The Country Doctor

1909
As Doctor Harcourt
A Strange Meeting

1909
As A Thief
Nursing a Viper

1909
As The Viper
The Broken Locket

1909
As George Peabody
The Indian Runner's Romance

1909
As The Old Prospector
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

1909
As The Doctor
The Honor of Thieves

1909
As
The Cardinal's Conspiracy

1909
As A Visiting Nobleman
Fools of Fate

1909
As Ed Hilton
The Rocky Road

1910
As Ben
In Old California

1910
As Governor Manuella
His Duty

1909
As Jack Allen
Tender Hearts

1909
As A Handsome Chap
In the Watches of the Night

1909
As Henry Brainhard
The Man

1910
As
The Impalement

1910
As
Film Fun

1955
As (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Sweet Revenge

1909
As Alice's Father
The Voice of the Violin

1909
As Mr. Walker
The Faded Lilies

1909
As At Party
The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period

1909
As Oliver Cromwell
The Way of Man

1909
As Wedding Guest
The Necklace

1909
As Employer / Party Guest
The Last Deal

1910
As At Card Game
The Oath and the Man

1910
As
Faithful

1910
As The Butler
The Light That Came

1909
As At the Ball
The Second Generation

1914
As Hugo Reid - the Son
The Politician's Love Story

1909
As
Mr. Jones’ Burglar

1909
As At Club
The Newlyweds

1910
As A Friend / At Station Reception
The Seventh Day

1909
As The Judge
A Knight of the Road

1911
As

Production Credits

For Her Government

1913
As Director
You Never Know Your Luck

1919
As Director
A Fool There Was

1915
As Director
A Fool There Was

1915
As Scenario Writer
Astray from the Steerage

1921
As Director
Mrs. Balfame

1917
As Director
Mrs. Balfame

1917
As Writer
The Man Without Desire

1923
As Writer
A Fair Rebel

1914
As Director
His New Lid

1910
As Director
Her Grandparents

1915
As Director
The Scarlet Oath

1916
As Director
The Greater Woman

1917
As Director
Motherhood

1917
As Director
The Devil's Daughter

1915
As Director
The Tenderfoot's Triumph

1910
As Director
The Chain Invisible

1916
As Director
Love in Quarantine

1910
As Director
A Fool There Was

1915
As Producer
The Witch

1916
As Director
The Witch

1916
As Writer
White Roses

1910
As Director
All on Account of the Milk

1910
As Director
The Smoker

1910
As Director
Never Again

1910
As Director
May and December

1910
As Director
When We Were in Our 'Teens

1910
As Director
Muggsy Becomes a Hero

1910
As Director
A Gold Necklace

1910
As Director
A Lucky Toothache

1910
As Director
His Last Dollar

1914
As Director
From the Valley of the Missing

1915
As Director
From the Valley of the Missing

1915
As Producer
Man's Enemy

1914
As Director
The Kid

1910
As Director
An Affair of Hearts

1910
As Director
The Masher

1910
As Director
The Stain

1914
As Director
Heart of the Sunset

1918
As Director
Hedda Gabler

1917
As Director
The Greater Woman

1917
As Producer
Motherhood

1917
As Producer
Reputation

1917
As Presenter
The Debt

1917
As Director
Officer 666

1914
As Director
In the Night

1920
As Writer
A Soul's Awakening

1922
As Story
Charity

1916
As Director
Charity

1916
As Supervisor of Production Resources
His Duty

1909
As Writer
May and December

1910
As Writer
The Forfeit

1919
As Director
The Forfeit

1919
As Writer
Princess Romanoff

1915
As Director
Princess Romanoff

1915
As Producer
The Dazzling Miss Davison

1917
As Director
Mary Moreland

1917
As Director
Mary Moreland

1917
As Presenter
The Troublesome Baby

1910
As Director
After the Ball

1910
As Director
Paradise Lost

1911
As Director