James Bell

Actor

About

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Birth Place

Suffolk, Virginia, USA

Born

December 01, 1891

Died

October 26, 1973

Biography

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James Bell was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Bell's earliest roles were in film, including the crime feature "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" (1932) with Paul Muni, "Private Detective 62" (1933) and the Charles Laughton dramatic adaptation "White Woman" (1933). He also appeared in "The King's Vacation" (1933) with George Arliss, the drama "My Friend Flicka" (194...

Filmography

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Outlanders (2008)

Twilight of Honor (1963)

Charles Crispin

Claudelle Inglish (1961)

Posse From Hell (1961)

The Oregon Trail (1959)

Jeremiah Cooper

The Trap (1959)

Photos & Videos

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Dead Reckoning (1947) — (Movie Clip) I’ve Got To Tell Somebody

My Friend Flicka (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Losing And Busting And Forgetting

Biography

James Bell was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Bell's earliest roles were in film, including the crime feature "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" (1932) with Paul Muni, "Private Detective 62" (1933) and the Charles Laughton dramatic adaptation "White Woman" (1933). He also appeared in "The King's Vacation" (1933) with George Arliss, the drama "My Friend Flicka" (1943) with Roddy McDowall and "So Proudly We Hail" (1943). He continued to act in productions like the Spencer Tracy drama "Sea of Grass" (1947), "Sealed Verdict" (1948) and the western "Roughshod" (1949) with Robert Sterling. He also appeared in the remake "Streets of Laredo" (1949) with Macdonald Carey. In the latter half of his career, he tackled roles in "Strategic Air Command" (1955), the western "Texas Lady" (1955) with Claudette Colbert and "Sincerely Yours" (1955) with Liberace. He also appeared in "Tribute to a Bad Man" (1956) and the Dale Robertson western "A Day of Fury" (1956). Bell was most recently credited in the foreign "Outlanders" (2008) with Jakub Tolak. Bell passed away in October 1973 at the age of 82.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Outlanders (2008)

Twilight of Honor (1963)

Charles Crispin

Claudelle Inglish (1961)

Posse From Hell (1961)

The Oregon Trail (1959)

Jeremiah Cooper

The Trap (1959)

In Love and War (1958)

Back from the Dead (1957)

The Tin Star (1957)

Johnny Trouble (1957)

Rev. Harrington

The Lonely Man (1957)

Four Girls in Town (1957)

A Day of Fury (1956)

Desert Mission (1956)

Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)

The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)

Hugh Lynn Cayce

Texas Lady (1955)

A Lawless Street (1955)

Black Tuesday (1955)

Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)

Strategic Air Command (1955)

Sincerely Yours (1955)

Lay That Rifle Down (1955)

Mr. Fetcher, also known as Grandpa

Crime Wave (1954)

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

Riding Shotgun (1954)

About Mrs. Leslie (1954)

All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)

The Last Posse (1953)

Ride the Man Down (1953)

Devil's Canyon (1953)

Red Mountain (1952)

Japanese War Bride (1952)

Editor Sterling

Wild Horse Ambush (1952)

Sheriff Tom "Gramps" White

Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)

Flying Leathernecks (1951)

Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas (1951)

Sheriff Tom "Gramps" White

The Dakota Kid (1951)

Sheriff Tom "Gramps" White

The Company She Keeps (1951)

Arizona Manhunt (1951)

Sheriff Tom "Gramps" White

Dial 1119 (1950)

Harrison D. Barnes

Streets of Laredo (1949)

Roughshod (1949)

Black Eagle: The Story of a Horse (1948)

Sealed Verdict (1948)

Mr. Elmer Hockland

I, Jane Doe (1948)

Black Eagle (1948)

Killer McCoy (1947)

Dead Reckoning (1947)

The Millerson Case (1947)

Philo Vance's Secret Mission (1947)

Blind Spot (1947)

Brute Force (1947)

Driftwood (1947)

The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)

The Sea of Grass (1947)

The Spiral Staircase (1946)

The Unknown (1946)

The Girl of the Limberlost (1945)

Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (1945)

Blood on the Sun (1945)

Charley Sprague

I Love a Soldier (1944)

Gangway for Tomorrow (1943)

The Leopard Man (1943)

My Friend Flicka (1943)

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

So Proudly We Hail! (1943)

Holiday Inn (1942)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Student Tour (1934)

The King's Vacation (1933)

Day of Reckoning (1933)

Infernal Machine (1933)

Private Detective 62 (1933)

White Woman (1933)

Storm at Daybreak (1933)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Cinematography (Feature Film)

The Fountainhead (1949)

The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)

Of Human Bondage (1946)

Pride of the Marines (1945)

Cast (Special)

Confidentially Yours (1960)

Life Events

1921

Stage acting debut

1932

First film as actor

Videos

Dead Reckoning (1947) — (Movie Clip) I’ve Got To Tell Somebody Opening with Humphrey Bogart in flight in a dark but Southern city, John Cromwell directing him to a church where we learn he’s ex-paratrooper Rip and James Bell is sky-diving priest Logan, but the story, for now, is about Johnny (William Prince), in Dead Reckoning, 1947, also starring Lizabeth Scott.

My Friend Flicka (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Losing And Busting And Forgetting Opening the Twentieth Century-Fox adaptation of the then-current popular novel by Mary O’Hara, rancher Rob (Preston Foster), daughter Hildy (Diana Hale) and hand Gus (James Bell) discover the latest trouble wrought by (inexplicably English) son Ken (Roddy McDowall), in My Friend Flicka, 1942.

My Friend Flicka (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't Mean To Scare Them Big horse action on location in Wyoming where the original novel by Mary O’Hara was set, rancher Rob (Preston Foster) and hired man Gus (James Bell) are bringing in the herd when accident-prone son Ken (Roddy McDowall) causes a minor avalanche, and meets a colt, in My Friend Flicka, 1942.

I Walked With A Zombie (1943) -- (Movie Clip) By Poison Or Hocus Pocus Dr. Maxwell (James Bell) explains to the mother-in-law (Edith Barrett) that Jessica (Christine Gordon) can't be a zombie, as nurse Betsy (Frances Dee), husband Paul (Tom Conway) and brother-in-law Wesley (James Ellison) face voodoo evidence to the contrary, in Val Letwon's I Walked With A Zombie, 1943.

About Mrs. Leslie (1954) -- (Original Trailer) Emphasis on Academy Award-winner Shirley Booth in the original trailer for producer Hal Wallis’ About Mrs. Leslie, 1954, co-starring Robert Ryan, from the popular potboiler by Viña Del Mar.

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