David Newell
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6309 |
| Birthday | 1905-01-23 |
| Place of Birth | Carthage, Missouri, USA |
| Also Known As | Dave Newell, |
1937
Artists & Models
6.8/5
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
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Artists & Models
1948
My Girl Tisa
9/1
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My Girl Tisa
1933
Today We Live
6.316/19
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
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Today We Live
1929
Dangerous Curves
6.667/6
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a...
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Dangerous Curves
1933
Hell Below
5.967/15
On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Fric...
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Hell Below
1930
Just Like Heaven
6/4
Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usurps his corner and a power struggle ensues between...
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Just Like Heaven
1936
Polo Joe
7/1
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
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Polo Joe
1932
New Morals for Old
4.5/6
Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man...
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New Morals for Old
1933
When Ladies Meet
5.711/19
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces...
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When Ladies Meet
1937
History Is Made at Night
6.676/54
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep he...
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History Is Made at Night
1929
Darkened Rooms
6.563/8
Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium workin...
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Darkened Rooms
1937
Wells Fargo
5.467/15
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fres...
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Wells Fargo
1938
Blondie
7.15/10
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself in...
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Blondie
1935
The Goose and the Gander
4.667/9
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot...
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The Goose and the Gander
1934
Desirable
7.2/5
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
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Desirable
1939
Naughty But Nice
6.75/8
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindse...
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Naughty But Nice
1939
Stronger Than Desire
5.5/8
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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Stronger Than Desire
1938
Men with Wings
5.4/5
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....
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Men with Wings
1939
Wife, Husband and Friend
6.5/2
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer...
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Wife, Husband and Friend
1939
Blondie Meets the Boss
5.9/10
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring...
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Blondie Meets the Boss
1939
Union Pacific
6.665/79
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opp...
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Union Pacific
1939
Dark Victory
6.941/160
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love w...
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Dark Victory
1932
Divorce In The Family
6.75/4
A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lo...
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Divorce In The Family
1939
We Are Not Alone
6.917/6
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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We Are Not Alone
1939
Gone with the Wind
7.9/4362
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruc...
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Gone with the Wind
1939
Stunt Pilot
6/2
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials...
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Stunt Pilot
1939
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
6.632/19
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is tran...
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1939
News Is Made at Night
4.75/4
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal o...
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News Is Made at Night
1939
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
6.733/30
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage ma...
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
1939
Day-time Wife
5.972/18
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
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Day-time Wife
1939
Missing Evidence
6.5/2
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have...
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Missing Evidence
1939
Swanee River
7/4
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, t...
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Swanee River
1939
The Escape
6.25/2
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his...
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The Escape
1939
Blondie Brings Up Baby
7/7
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically co...
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Blondie Brings Up Baby
1938
Heart of the North
5.2/5
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
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Heart of the North
1952
The Duel at Silver Creek
7.064/39
When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the Silver Kid joins forces with the local marshal to free...
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The Duel at Silver Creek
1938
The Lady Objects
5.7/10
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get h...
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The Lady Objects
1931
Ten Cents a Dance
6.778/18
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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Ten Cents a Dance
1929
The Hole in the Wall
5.389/9
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her in...
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The Hole in the Wall
1940
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
7.167/6
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid....
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Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1930
Let's Go Native
7.667/3
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
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Let's Go Native
1930
The Kibitzer
5.5/4
In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in st...
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The Kibitzer
1930
The Runaway Bride
6.25/4
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, a...
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The Runaway Bride
1940
North West Mounted Police
6.42/44
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Cor...
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North West Mounted Police
1932
Huddle
7/6
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale...
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Huddle
1935
The Florentine Dagger
6.75/4
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
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The Florentine Dagger
1940
The Letter
7.287/246
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
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The Letter
1940
'Til We Meet Again
6.4/10
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. J...
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'Til We Meet Again
1940
Lady with Red Hair
6.857/7
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Lady with Red Hair
1940
Phantom Raiders
6.125/16
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter a...
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Phantom Raiders
1940
Phantom Raiders
6.125/16
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter a...
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Phantom Raiders
1940
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
6.667/6
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1938
Over the Wall
5.667/3
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Over the Wall
1946
A Guy Could Change
7/1
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
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A Guy Could Change
1936
The Girl on the Front Page
7/3
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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The Girl on the Front Page
1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer
5.2/5
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as t...
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
1931
Woman Hungry
10/1
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Di...
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Woman Hungry
1943
Reveille with Beverly
7.5/6
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a n...
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Reveille with Beverly
1932
A Woman Commands
9/2
In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's car...
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A Woman Commands
1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
6.5/18
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Loui...
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Du Barry Was a Lady
1939
Rulers of the Sea
6.667/3
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the...
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Rulers of the Sea
1936
Educating Father
9/1
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come i...
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Educating Father
1934
Imitation of Life
7.029/87
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face fami...
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Imitation of Life
1935
Ship Cafe
8/1
The singing stoker and the vamp.
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Ship Cafe
1941
Appointment for Love
5.778/9
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progress...
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Appointment for Love
1937
A Star Is Born
7.187/238
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido...
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A Star Is Born
1941
Footsteps in the Dark
7/12
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of...
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Footsteps in the Dark
1934
White Heat
5.25/4
In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling in love with a native girl, but instead of committing...
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White Heat
1930
Murder on the Roof
7/1
This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) wrongly accused of murder and follows the efforts...
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Murder on the Roof
1933
Made on Broadway
7/3
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cul...
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Made on Broadway
1936
Everybody's Old Man
8/1
An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.
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Everybody's Old Man
1952
My Son John
5.773/11
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
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My Son John
1938
The Cowboy and the Lady
6.286/28
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off f...
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The Cowboy and the Lady
1938
Dangerous to Know
6.556/9
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), wit...
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Dangerous to Know
1949
Act of Violence
6.939/107
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him w...
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Act of Violence
1933
Ann Carver's Profession
7/4
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
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Ann Carver's Profession
1930
Paramount on Parade
6.111/9
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
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Paramount on Parade
1931
The Flood
10/1
The story centers on a sordid love triangle involving a woman and two men. Their personal tensions and romantic complications reach a breaking point j...
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