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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.

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Known For

  • For Her Government
  • You Never Know Your Luck
  • A Fool There Was
  • Astray from the Steerage
  • Mrs. Balfame
  • 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
  • May and December
  • Never Again
  • Muggsy Becomes a Hero
  • When We Were in Our 'Teens
  • A Gold Necklace
  • A Lucky Toothache
  • His Last Dollar
  • From the Valley of the Missing
  • Man's Enemy
  • An Affair of Hearts
  • The Masher
  • The Kid
  • The Stain
  • Heart of the Sunset
  • Hedda Gabler
  • The Debt
  • Officer 666
  • Charity