David Newell

Born: 1905-01-23

David Newell was originally an actor, who became a makeup artist after being involved in a car crash that left him with some facial disfigurement. David Newell was primarily known as an American character actor, whose acting career spanned from the very beginning of the sound film era through the middle of the 1950s. He made his film debut in a featured role in The Hole in the Wall, a 1929 film starring Edward G. Robinson and Claudette Colbert. Early in his career he had many featured roles, in such films as: RKO's The Runaway Bride in 1929, starring Mary Astor; 1931's Ten Cents a Dance, starring Barbara Stanwyck and directed by Lionel Barrymore; and White Heat in 1934. In the late 1940s he also began working as a make-up artist, which he transitioned full-time to in 1955; this was due to injuries sustained during a car accident, which left him physically disfigured. He retired from the film industry in 1961, although he continued to work in television through the beginning of the 1970s, his last position being the make-up artist on the television show, Lassie. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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Gone with the Wind

as Cade Calvert (uncredited)
Released: 1939-03-12

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical...

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A Star Is Born

as Sam (uncredited)
Released: 1937-04-27

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies....

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The Letter

as Geoffrey Hammond (uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-21

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

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Dark Victory

as Judith's Friend (uncredited)
Released: 1939-04-20

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her...

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Union Pacific

as Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1939-05-05

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad...

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Imitation of Life

as Party Guest Saying Goodbye (uncredited)
Released: 1934-11-23

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter....

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North West Mounted Police

as Indian
Released: 1940-10-22

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him)...

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Footsteps in the Dark

as June's Escort (uncredited)
Released: 1941-03-08

A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police...

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The Duel at Silver Creek

as Townsman (uncredited)
Released: 1952-09-05

When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the...

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History Is Made at Night

as uncredited
Released: 1937-03-05

An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from...

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Hell Below

as Lieut. (JG) Radford
Released: 1933-06-08

On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married,...

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New Morals for Old

as Duff Wilson
Released: 1932-06-04

Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris...

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Appointment for Love

as Leading Man (uncredited)
Released: 1941-10-31

Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The...

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Du Barry was a Lady

as Man Getting Champagne
Released: 1943-08-13

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with...

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The Escape

as Reporter
Released: 1939-10-05

An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is...

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Dangerous Curves

as Tony Barretti
Released: 1929-07-12

A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he...

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Over the Wall

as Governor's Secretary
Released: 1938-04-02

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his...

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Wells Fargo

as Minor Role
Released: 1937-12-31

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company,...

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Blondie Meets the Boss

as Sanders (uncredited)
Released: 1939-03-08

Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods...

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Phantom Raiders

as Man in Cafe
Released: 1940-06-07

In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers...

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Phantom Raiders

as Telephone Operator
Released: 1940-06-07

In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers...

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Ten Cents a Dance

as Ralph Clark
Released: 1931-01-30

A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.

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Lady with Red Hair

as Man in Chicago Audience (uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-30

An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.

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Naughty But Nice

as Attorney at Defense Table (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-23

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and...

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Artists & Models

as Romeo (uncredited)
Released: 1937-08-04

An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

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Divorce In The Family

as Interne
Released: 1932-08-27

A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932...

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Swanee River

as Guest
Released: 1939-12-29

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who...

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Rulers of the Sea

as Seaman (Uncredited)
Released: 1939-11-08

The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all...

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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

as Audience Member
Released: 1939-08-31

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a...

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The Lady Objects

as Student
Released: 1938-10-12

A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as...

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Woman Hungry

as Dr. Neil Cranford
Released: 1931-04-04

This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The...

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Blondie

as First Draftsman (uncredited)
Released: 1938-11-30

Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy...

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Reveille with Beverly

as Sentry (uncredited)
Released: 1943-02-04

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the...

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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

as Attorney at Trial (extra)
Released: 1940-09-06

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper...

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Today We Live

as Man in Canteen (uncredited)
Released: 1933-03-03

Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get...

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Dr. Kildare's Crisis

as Chandler's Secretary
Released: 1940-11-29

Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his...

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'Til We Meet Again

as Assistant Purser (uncredited)
Released: 1940-04-20

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to...

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The Goose and the Gander

as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: 1935-09-21

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a...

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Ship Cafe

as Donald (uncredited)
Released: 1935-11-09

The singing stoker and the vamp.

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My Girl Tisa

as uncredited
Released: 1948-02-07

1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed...

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Blondie Brings Up Baby

as Tall Dithers' Employee (uncredited)
Released: 1939-11-08

Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during...

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Darkened Rooms

as Billy
Released: 1929-11-23

Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms....

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The Kibitzer

as Bert Livingstone
Released: 1930-01-11

In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble...

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Huddle

as Football Player (uncredited)
Released: 1932-05-14

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a...

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Day-time Wife

as Party Guest Answering Telephone
Released: 1939-11-24

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary,...

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Educating Father

as Eddie Gordon
Released: 1936-05-23

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than...

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The Wife Takes a Flyer

as German Officer
Released: 1942-04-28

Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied...

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Wife, Husband and Friend

as Party Guest
Released: 1939-03-03

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her...

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Men with Wings

as Photographer
Released: 1938-07-16

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,...

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Let's Go Native

as Chief Officer Williams
Released: 1930-08-15

The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from...

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The Runaway Bride

as Richard Mercer
Released: 1930-05-04

Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage....

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Stunt Pilot

as Radio Operator
Released: 1939-06-30

The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest...

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News Is Made at Night

as Starter
Released: 1939-07-20

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free...

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We Are Not Alone

as Policeman in Courtroom
Released: 1939-11-25

A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his...

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The Florentine Dagger

as Rodrigo (uncredited)
Released: 1935-03-30

A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.

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When Ladies Meet

as Freddie (uncredited)
Released: 1933-06-23

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her...

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Missing Evidence

as uncredited
Released: 1939-12-15

G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating...

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Heart of the North

as Pilot #1 (uncredited)
Released: 1938-12-10

A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound...

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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

as Museum Exhibit Attendee (uncredited)
Released: 1939-07-07

Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of...

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Blondie Has Servant Trouble

as Nelson - Dithers' Employee (uncredited)
Released: 1940-07-25

Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his...

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A Guy Could Change

as Doctor
Released: 1946-01-27

A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.

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The Girl on the Front Page

as Young Man
Released: 1936-09-26

The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and...

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Just Like Heaven

as Tobey
Released: 1930-10-21

Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus...

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Polo Joe

as Jack Hilton
Released: 1936-11-04

A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl...

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White Heat

as William Hawkes
Released: 1934-12-30

In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling...

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Desirable

as Helen's First Admirer at Party
Released: 1934-09-08

A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

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A Woman Commands

as Adjutant
Released: 1932-02-12

In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts...

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Stronger Than Desire

as Man at Defense Table (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-30

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

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The Hole in the Wall

as Gordon Grant
Released: 1929-04-27

Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame...

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Murder on the Roof

as Ted Palmer
Released: 1930-01-29

This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V....

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