Frank Powell

Directing · Acting · Writing · Crew

Born May 8, 1887, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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.

Filmography

• 1955Film Fun — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1923The Man Without Desire — Writer
• 1922A Soul's Awakening — Story
• 1921Astray from the Steerage — Director
• 1920In the Night — Writer
• 1919The Forfeit — Director, Writer
• 1919You Never Know Your Luck — Director
• 1918Heart of the Sunset — Director
• 1917Hedda Gabler — Director
• 1917Mary Moreland — Director, Presenter
• 1917Motherhood — Director, Producer
• 1917Mrs. Balfame — Director, Writer
• 1917Reputation — Presenter
• 1917The Dazzling Miss Davison — Director
• 1917The Debt — Director
• 1917The Greater Woman — Director, Producer
• 1916Charity — Director, Supervisor of Production Resources
• 1916The Chain Invisible — Director
• 1916The Scarlet Oath — Director
• 1916The Witch — Director, Writer
• 1915A Fool There Was — The Doctor, Director, Scenario Writer, Producer
• 1915From the Valley of the Missing — Director, Producer
• 1915Her Grandparents — Director
• 1915Princess Romanoff — Director, Producer
• 1915The Devil's Daughter — Director
• 1914A Fair Rebel — Director
• 1914His Last Dollar — Director
• 1914Man's Enemy — Director
• 1914Officer 666 — Director
• 1914The Second Generation — Hugo Reid - the Son
• 1914The Stain — Director
• 1913For Her Government — Director
• 1911A Knight of the Road
• 1911Paradise Lost — Director
• 1910A Gold Necklace — Director
• 1910A Lucky Toothache — Director
• 1910After the Ball — Director
• 1910All on Account of the Milk — Director
• 1910An Affair of Hearts — Director
• 1910Faithful — The Butler
• 1910His New Lid — Director
• 1910In Old California — Governor Manuella
• 1910Love in Quarantine — Director
• 1910May and December — Director
• 1910Muggsy Becomes a Hero — Director
• 1910Never Again — Director
• 1910The Impalement
• 1910The Kid — Director
• 1910The Last Deal — At Card Game
• 1910The Man — Steve Clark
• 1910The Masher — Director
• 1910The Newlyweds — A Friend / At Station Reception
• 1910The Oath and the Man
• 1910The Rocky Road — Ben
• 1910The Smoker — Director
• 1910The Tenderfoot's Triumph — Director
• 1910The Troublesome Baby — Director
• 1910When We Were in Our 'Teens — Director
• 1910White Roses — Director
• 1909A Corner in Wheat — The Wheat King
• 1909A Strange Meeting — A Thief
• 1909Fools of Fate — Ed Hilton
• 1909His Duty — Jack Allen, Writer
• 1909In the Watches of the Night — Henry Brainhard
• 1909Lines of White on a Sullen Sea — The Doctor
• 1909Mr. Jones' Burglar — At Club
• 1909Nursing a Viper — The Viper
• 1909Sweet Revenge — Alice's Father
• 1909Tender Hearts — A Handsome Chap
• 1909The Broken Locket — George Peabody
• 1909The Cardinal's Conspiracy — A Visiting Nobleman
• 1909The Country Doctor — Doctor Harcourt
• 1909The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period — Oliver Cromwell
• 1909The Faded Lilies — At Party
• 1909The Indian Runner's Romance — The Old Prospector
• 1909The Light That Came — At the Ball
• 1909The Mended Lute — Chief Great Elk Horn
• 1909The Necklace — Employer / Party Guest
• 1909The Seventh Day — The Judge
• 1909The Way of Man — Wedding Guest