David Parlour is best known as the fourth husband of American actress and singer Jane Powell. His name appears in biographical references to Powell, and he is also recorded in some databases under the fuller name David Stellar Parlour. Beyond his connection to Powell, the public record on him is narrow.
| Full name | David Stellar Parlour |
|---|---|
| Known as | David Parlour |
| Profession | Producer-director (per reference biography) |
| Known for | Marriage to Jane Powell |
| Spouse | Jane Powell (m. 1978–1981) |
Who Was David Parlour?
The name David Parlour surfaces in reference biographies of Jane Powell as the man she married in the autumn of 1978. Biographical databases, including records held by MyHeritage, also list him under the name David Stellar Parlour, treating both as references to the same individual.
He is not a public figure in his own right in the way that Powell was. His appearances in the historical record are tied almost entirely to that marriage, which makes independent confirmation of basic personal details difficult. No reliable source establishes where he was born or raised, or provides details about his family background.
His Marriage to Jane Powell
David Parlour and Jane Powell married on October 21, 1978. Powell was already a well-established name in American entertainment by that point, having built her career through Hollywood musicals in the 1940s and 1950s before transitioning to stage work and television. Parlour was her fourth husband.
The marriage lasted roughly three years. Reference biographies consistently record the divorce as occurring in 1981, though no reliable account describes the circumstances surrounding the end of the relationship.
Powell went on to marry former child actor and public-relations executive Dickie Moore in 1988, a relationship that lasted until Moore’s death. Parlour does not reappear in Powell’s biographical record after the divorce.
His Professional Background
At least one reference biography of Powell describes Parlour as a producer-director. A separate account labels him a writer. The two descriptions have not been reconciled by any primary source, and no verified production credits, publications, or other career documentation have been independently confirmed in the public record.
Given that conflict, it is accurate to say that Parlour worked in the entertainment or creative industries in some capacity, though the precise nature of that work remains unclear from what has been reliably documented.
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His Connection to Jane Powell
Powell had children from earlier marriages, but no reliable source connects Parlour to those children as a stepparent or establishes that he had children of his own. His role in her life, as far as public records go, was as her husband for a period of about three years in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Powell passed away in September 2021. Obituaries published at that time, including coverage in major newspapers, confirmed the broad outlines of her five marriages, with Parlour named among her former husbands. Those accounts did not offer additional detail about who he was outside of that relationship.
David Parlour remains a peripheral figure in the public record — present in the biography of a well-known actress, but without a documented profile of his own that extends beyond the years of that marriage.
