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William Wells Newell

 
Actor: William Newell
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  • Born: 1894
  • Died: Feb 21, 1967
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '30s-'50s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Leave It to Beaver: Beaver's Birthday
  • First Major Screen Credit: Leave It to Beaver: Beaver's Birthday (1961)

Biography

In films from 1935 to 1964, American character actor William "Billy" Newell was nearly always seen with his hat tilted backward and with a spent cigarette or wad of gum in his mouth. This is because Newell was usually cast as a wise-lipped reporter or news photographer. One of his largest assignments in this vein was as news-hound Speed Martin in the 1940 Republic serial Mysterious Dr. Satan. William Newell also essayed countless functional bit roles, such as the liquor-store proprietor in the 1945 Oscar-winner The Lost Weekend. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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William Wells Newell (1839 - 1907) was an American folklorist, school teacher, minister and philosophy professor.

Newell was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After trying his hand at ministry, he was a faculty member at the new philosophy department at Harvard University for a few years. However, the bulk of Newell's career was as a school teacher. Newell founded the American Folklore Society in 1888 where he edited the Journal of American Folklore. His best known work is Games and Songs of American Children (1883, Mineola, N. Y.). The songs included tunes with the lyrics, and is the first collection of folk music of American children.

References

  • Dictionary of American Biography
  • William Wells Newell and the Foundation of American Folklore Scholarship, The Journal of Folklore Institute, authored by Michael Bell

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