William Newell

William Newell

Birthday: 1894-01-05

Place of Birth: Millville, New Jersey, USA

Biography: No biography available.

Movies

Manpower
Manpower

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and ...

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Here Come the Marines
Here Come the Marines

After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sac...

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The Missouri Traveler
The Missouri Traveler

Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural...

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Bombshell
Bombshell

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on....

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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac....

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Keeper of the Flame
Keeper of the Flame

Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero....

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Mysterious Doctor Satan
Mysterious Doctor Satan

A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an ar...

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Alias Mr. Twilight
Alias Mr. Twilight

Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his b...

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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble wi...

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The Mandarin Mystery
The Mandarin Mystery

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp....

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Bowery Bombshell
Bowery Bombshell

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (Dav...

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Key Witness
Key Witness

A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit....

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Second Chance
Second Chance

Jewel thieves battle investigators....

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Mister Cory
Mister Cory

An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society....

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Miss Polly
Miss Polly

A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity Leagu...

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Sing a Jingle
Sing a Jingle

In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant ...

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Rendezvous
Rendezvous

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies....

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Rhythm in the Clouds
Rhythm in the Clouds

Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio....

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A Tragedy at Midnight
A Tragedy at Midnight

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find ...

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Sitting on the Moon
Sitting on the Moon

A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on t...

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Larceny on the Air
Larceny on the Air

A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent...

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The Invisible Killer
The Invisible Killer

Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweeth...

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Beware Of Ladies
Beware Of Ladies

An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredi...

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The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...

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Bulldog Edition
Bulldog Edition

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gan...

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Navy Born
Navy Born

A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the so...

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Happy Go Lucky
Happy Go Lucky

A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold...

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A Man Betrayed
A Man Betrayed

A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tr...

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Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island

A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabo...

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Bill Cracks Down
Bill Cracks Down

William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified h...

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Dangerous Holiday
Dangerous Holiday

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home....

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Who Was That Lady?
Who Was That Lady?

In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a y...

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Last Train from Gun Hill
Last Train from Gun Hill

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the ra...

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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the jo...

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Slander House
Slander House

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the ...

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Escape from Fort Bravo
Escape from Fort Bravo

A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort....

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Phffft
Phffft

Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into ...

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Wedding Bills
Wedding Bills

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls...

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The Sheepman
The Sheepman

A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as ...

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Louisa
Louisa

Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to dis...

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Let's Talk Turkey
Let's Talk Turkey

It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wan...

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Caught in the Act
Caught in the Act

On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspecte...

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Naughty But Nice
Naughty But Nice

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

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Bright Victory
Bright Victory

A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life....

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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought dow...

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Here Comes the Band
Here Comes the Band

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an un...

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The Outlaw
The Outlaw

Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, ...

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Honolulu
Honolulu

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to ...

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Rose of Washington Square
Rose of Washington Square

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets de...

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Invitation to Happiness
Invitation to Happiness

An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter....

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Good Girls Go to Paris
Good Girls Go to Paris

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor ...

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Second Fiddle
Second Fiddle

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Mi...

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...

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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Nick Carter, Master Detective

Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter...

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Swanee River
Swanee River

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

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The Housekeeper's Daughter
The Housekeeper's Daughter

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop....

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Wedlock Deadlock
Wedlock Deadlock

Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before...

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Fury
Fury

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...

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The Day the Bookies Wept
The Day the Bookies Wept

A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer....

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The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... b...

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Libeled Lady
Libeled Lady

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she f...

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The Invisible Man Returns
The Invisible Man Returns

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him in...

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Philo Vance's Secret Mission
Philo Vance's Secret Mission

Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are...

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Everybody's Baby
Everybody's Baby

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture o...

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High Noon
High Noon

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has b...

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All by Myself
All by Myself

Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, ...

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Make Way for Tomorrow
Make Way for Tomorrow

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to t...

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The Doctor Takes a Wife
The Doctor Takes a Wife

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage ...

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City for Conquest
City for Conquest

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug...

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Dangerous Blondes
Dangerous Blondes

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes ra...

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He Stayed for Breakfast
He Stayed for Breakfast

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker ...

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Hold That Woman!
Hold That Woman!

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or ...

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The Great Profile
The Great Profile

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,...

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Let's Do It Again
Let's Do It Again

Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alle...

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The Magnificent Rogue
The Magnificent Rogue

A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own ver...

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Three Girls About Town
Three Girls About Town

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next doo...

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Our Miss Brooks
Our Miss Brooks

The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Br...

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Honeymoon Limited
Honeymoon Limited

A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walk...

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Devil Pays Off
Devil Pays Off

A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the ene...

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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He...

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Get Hep to Love
Get Hep to Love

Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her...

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Alfalfa's Aunt
Alfalfa's Aunt

Alfalfa's weird aunt Penelope pays a visit. She's working on a murder mystery novel, but Alfalfa th...

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Bubbling Troubles
Bubbling Troubles

To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew....

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Slightly Dangerous
Slightly Dangerous

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne...

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The Great Morgan
The Great Morgan

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by...

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The Lady Pays Off
The Lady Pays Off

The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, whe...

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Fired Wife
Fired Wife

A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets...

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Public Deb No. 1
Public Deb No. 1

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoo...

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Honeymoon Lodge
Honeymoon Lodge

Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol ...

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No Place for a Lady
No Place for a Lady

A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, ...

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Top Man
Top Man

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is...

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Ice-Capades
Ice-Capades

Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arr...

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The Domineering Male
The Domineering Male

This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. W...

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Doctor Jim
Doctor Jim

Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, i...

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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect ...

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Song of My Heart
Song of My Heart

The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair....

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Inflation
Inflation

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States....

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The Voice of Bugle Ann
The Voice of Bugle Ann

A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of ...

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Young Man with Ideas
Young Man with Ideas

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children....

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The Major and the Minor
The Major and the Minor

Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train...

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Adventure
Adventure

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian....

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On Stage Everybody
On Stage Everybody

Radio's miracle show is on the screen....

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Her Lucky Night
Her Lucky Night

In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their r...

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Absolute Quiet
Absolute Quiet

Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business ty...

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Young Widow
Young Widow

A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war....

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Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where h...

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Pollyanna
Pollyanna

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see th...

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Wichita
Wichita

Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kans...

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Blondie Goes Latin
Blondie Goes Latin

Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the femal...

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The Ghost Comes Home
The Ghost Comes Home

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voya...

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The Missing Juror
The Missing Juror

A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors....

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Lady in the Lake
Lady in the Lake

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But whe...

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Riffraff
Riffraff

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from hi...

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The Man Who Dared
The Man Who Dared

A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show tha...

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All About Hash
All About Hash

Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The ki...

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Culinary Carving
Culinary Carving

A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert....

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Two Yanks in Trinidad
Two Yanks in Trinidad

The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy),...

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The Fuller Brush Man
The Fuller Brush Man

Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make goo...

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Social Sea Lions
Social Sea Lions

A "Pete Smith Specialty". Three sea lions gatecrash the kitchen of a beach house, steal some goodies...

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Penny To the Rescue
Penny To the Rescue

A Pete Smith Specialty. Chef Prudence Penny gives hints on cooking....

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The Lady Is Willing
The Lady Is Willing

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a bab...

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The Strawberry Blonde
The Strawberry Blonde

Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulat...

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A Global Affair
A Global Affair

Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arn...

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Out of the Depths
Out of the Depths

Told in flashback, Out of the Depths strives to explain why its four male protagonists are bobbing a...

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