Frank Powell
Birthday: 1887-05-08
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Biography: 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
A Fool There Was
John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfort...
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A Corner in Wheat
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of br...
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The Mended Lute
In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves....
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The Son's Return
A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parent...
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Over Silent Paths
In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young dau...
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The Country Doctor
While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds t...
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A Strange Meeting
Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helpin...
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Nursing a Viper
During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a...
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The Broken Locket
George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one b...
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The Indian Runner's Romance
An Indian comforts a dying prospector in his last moments. In exchange, the prospector tells him the...
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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown...
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The Honor of Thieves
Two thieves, Ned and Mike, scheme to rob a pawnbroker, Mr. Einstein. Ned seduces Einstein's daughter...
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The Cardinal's Conspiracy
A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and ...
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Fools of Fate
Fanny is the wife of Ben Webster, a trapper, and while he is an affectionate and dutiful husband, sh...
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The Rocky Road
The evils of drink cause a man to separate from his family. In time he becomes sober and prosperous....
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In Old California
An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned Califor...
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His Duty
It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him wit...
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Tender Hearts
A country boy and a city boy are both courting the same girl. The girl sees the country boy's tender...
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In the Watches of the Night
An honest worker, John Whitney, finds himself unemployed and unable to provide for his family. Despe...
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The Man
Mildred lives with her husband, the prospector Steve Clark, in an out-of-the-way cabin in the mounta...
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The Impalement
Bored by a doting wife who is too eager to please (she even puts a cigar in his mouth and lights it)...
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A Sweet Revenge
After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks f...
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The Voice of the Violin
A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he join...
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The Faded Lilies
A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mis...
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The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period
During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers ...
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The Way of Man
A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another...
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The Necklace
Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace i...
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The Last Deal
Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwoo...
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The Oath and the Man
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the p...
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Faithful
Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner wh...
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The Light That Came
A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love he...
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The Second Generation
Hugo Reid loves and is engaged to the fair Irene. Warned by his father that insanity runs in their f...
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The Politician's Love Story
A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to...
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Mr. Jones’ Burglar
Mr. Jones stays out late playing poker with his buddies. While he's gone, a burglar starts to break ...
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The Newlyweds
A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two se...
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The Seventh Day
A neglectful woman wants custody of her children in her divorce. The judge rules that he will give h...
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