Acting
Frank Powell
1887 · Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
30 films
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.
Filmography
White Roses
Director
Sweet Revenge
Alice's Father
Mary Moreland
Director
Film Fun
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Charity
Director
Hedda Gabler
Director
The Dazzling Miss Davison
Director
Princess Romanoff
Director
A Knight of the Road
Paradise Lost
Director
In the Watches of the Night
Henry Brainhard
The Light That Came
At the Ball