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.
Acting
95
Male
1887-05-08
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Francis William Powell
A Fool There Was
A Corner in Wheat
The Mended Lute
Over Silent Paths
The Country Doctor
A Strange Meeting
Nursing a Viper
The Broken Locket
The Indian Runner's Romance
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
Fools of Fate
The Rocky Road
In Old California
His Duty
Tender Hearts
In the Watches of the Night
The Man
The Impalement
Film Fun
Sweet Revenge
The Faded Lilies
The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period
The Way of Man
The Necklace
The Last Deal
The Oath and the Man
Faithful
The Light That Came
The Second Generation
Mr. Jones' Burglar
The Newlyweds
The Seventh Day
A Knight of the Road
For Her Government
You Never Know Your Luck
Astray from the Steerage
Mrs. Balfame
The Man Without Desire
A Fair Rebel
His New Lid
Her Grandparents
The Scarlet Oath
The Greater Woman
Motherhood
The Devil's Daughter
The Tenderfoot's Triumph
The Chain Invisible
Love in Quarantine
The Witch
White Roses
All on Account of the Milk
The Smoker
Never Again
May and December
When We Were in Our 'Teens
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
A Gold Necklace
A Lucky Toothache
His Last Dollar
From the Valley of the Missing
Man's Enemy
The Kid
An Affair of Hearts
The Masher
The Stain
Heart of the Sunset
Hedda Gabler
The Debt
Officer 666
In the Night
Charity
The Forfeit
Princess Romanoff
The Dazzling Miss Davison
Mary Moreland
The Troublesome Baby
After the Ball
Paradise Lost