Frank Powell

Frank Powell

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.

On screen

  • A Fool There Was
  • Over Silent Paths
  • The Rocky Road
  • In Old California
  • The Oath and the Man
  • Faithful
  • The Newlyweds
  • A Corner in Wheat
  • The Mended Lute
  • The Country Doctor
  • A Strange Meeting
  • Nursing a Viper
  • The Indian Runner's Romance
  • The Broken Locket
  • Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
  • The Cardinal's Conspiracy
  • Fools of Fate
  • His Duty
  • Tender Hearts
  • The Faded Lilies
  • The Necklace
  • The Way of Man
  • The Light That Came
  • Mr. Jones' Burglar
  • The Seventh Day

Behind the camera

  • The Man Without Desire
  • Astray from the Steerage
  • In the Night
  • The Forfeit
  • Heart of the Sunset
  • Mrs. Balfame
  • The Greater Woman
  • Motherhood
  • Hedda Gabler
  • The Debt
  • The Dazzling Miss Davison
  • Mary Moreland
  • The Scarlet Oath
  • The Chain Invisible
  • The Witch
  • Charity
  • A Fool There Was
  • The Devil's Daughter
  • From the Valley of the Missing
  • Princess Romanoff
  • A Fair Rebel
  • His Last Dollar
  • The Stain
  • The Tenderfoot's Triumph
  • All on Account of the Milk
  • May and December
  • When We Were in Our 'Teens
  • Muggsy Becomes a Hero
  • A Lucky Toothache
  • A Gold Necklace
  • His Duty

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