Powers began on the stage in Boston in 1880 and also spent time in circuses and later, in vaudevilles.

In the 1890s, he acted in many American versions of the so-called Gaiety musicals, originating in the London's West End, then coming into vogue in the United States.

He, however, has one IMDb credit for a short film from 1905 Digesting a Joke (James T.

[4] On May 19, 1892, he married in Rochester, New York the actress Rachel Booth (1862-1955).

The Powers made their home in the Ansonia residential hotel in New York City.