# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-powell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:01:55.122Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-powell"
name: "Frank Powell"
slug: "frank-powell"
description: "Francis William Powell was a Canadian-born American stage and silent film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter who worked predominantly in the United States. He is also credited with \"discovering\" Theda Bara and casting her in a starring role in the 1915 release A Fool There Was. Her performance in that production, under Powell's direction, quickly earned Bara widespread fame as the film industry's most popular evil seductress or on-screen \"vamp\"."
tagline: "Canadian actor, screenwriter, and director (1886–1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Powell_001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1886"
deathDate: "1957"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.57
  momentum:             0.779220779220779
  historical:           12.74611333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288616/"
    handle:    "nm0288616"
sources:
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    title: "فرینک پاول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frank Powell"
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    title: "فرانك باول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانك پول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frank Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "فرانک پاول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Powell"
    title: "Frank Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Powell"
    title: "Frank Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "فرانک پاول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Powell"
    title: "Frank Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Powell"
    title: "Frank Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Powell"
    title: "Frank Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frank Powell"
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  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Powell"
    title: "Frank Powell"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BA"
    title: "Пауэлл, Фрэнк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q523961"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1062048"
    title: "Frank Powell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump