Personal Info
Birth date
1903-10-16 (121 Years)
Day of death
1962-07-04
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also known as
George Francis Beldam
Rex Bell
Biography
We dont have a biography for Rex Bell
Filmography
The Misfits
6.945
Overview:
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5
Overview:
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
5.4
Overview:
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.Lightnin'
3.7
Overview:
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada. When Lightnin' refuses to sell his share of the hotel to a gang of crooks, Mary is coerced into divorcing her husband so that she can sign over the deed herself.Dawn on the Great Divide
4.429
Overview:
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.They Had to See Paris
5.7
Overview:
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
7.7
Overview:
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.Harmony at Home
NYR
Overview:
This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors away from her daughters by discussing marriage.Happy Days
6
Overview:
In Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing that the show is in arrears, goes to New York to gather all of the former stars to stage a minstrel show as a benefit.True to the Navy
7
Overview:
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.Broadway to Cheyenne
4.2
Overview:
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.The Idaho Kid
6.5
Overview:
Idaho, returning to the area he left as a boy, gets in the middle of a range feud. He takes the side of Endicott. On the other side is Hollister who is unaware that Idaho is his long lost son.Rainbow Ranch
NYR
Overview:
An emergency at his Aunt's ranch gets Ed Randall leave from the Navy. He returns to find the water cut off and her note due the next day. When the man he seeks legal advice from is murdered, Ed is accused and he now finds himself in jail with a lynch mob forming outside.West of Nevada
5
Overview:
When a gang tries to rob Haldain, Jim and Walla Walla break it up. Haldain is carrying stuffed animals and Jim's suspicion that they are stuffed with gold is soon confirmed. The gang's boss is banker Cutting and he is after Haldain's gold. He also receives Jim's mail at his bank and changes one of Jim's letters to make it look like Jim is after the gold. His sends Haldain's daughter after her father thereby leading the gang to the secret gold field.Gunfire
NYR
Overview:
The second of four films made by Resolute Productions, Inc. that had Rex Bell, Ruth Mix and Buzz Barton billed above the title, and the basic plot is rather basic as the McGregor clan--Ross, Dan and Alex, arch-enemies of Paradise Ranch owner Jerry Vance--frame him on a murder charge, and Danny Blake, a young cowhand befriended by Jerry, and Mary Vance, an Eastern girl who co-owns the ranch with Jerry, help him clear his name.Saddle Aces
NYR
Overview:
Two prisoners, Steve Brandt and Nick Montana, chained to each other, escape by jumping from the train that brought them to the penitentiary. Persued, they hide in the carriage with Jane Langton. Arriving at her ranch, they discover that she is fighting against a Pete Sutton, who wants to take her pasture. Not wanting to confront, Sutton offers the two escapees help by assisting them move to Mexico.Battling with Buffalo Bill
5
Overview:
A western adventure serial in 12 episodes. Buffalo Bill battles gambler Jim Rodney who is trying to scare off the townspeople so he can gain possession of a gold strike discovered in the area. A nearby Indian tribe is provoked to attack the town and the cavalry is called in.Men of the Plains
NYR
Overview:
The Government sends Dean, Baxter, and Gordon to investigate a series of train holdups. Travis is behind the robberies and they are soon on his trail. When things get hot, Travis has a plan of double-crossing his own men that will enable him to keep not only his gold but also the money it is insured for.Diamond Trail
1
Overview:
Reporter Speed Morgan helps Flash Barrett escape from the police and this gets him into Flash's gang where he poses as a gangster. Flash and his gang head west guning for Bill Miller who failed to send some diamonds on to Flash. Speed hopes to bring Flash to justice but is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.Stormy Trails
6
Overview:
A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit turns out to be a former ranch hand who was suing him. The rancher is arrested for murder.Courage
NYR
Overview:
Belle Bennett plays as the widowed mother of seven children living in Sioux City, Iowa. She moves with them to Cambridge, Massachusetts in order to educate her children with culture and give them every advantage. Bennett, who is unversed in financial matters, soon faces poverty for herself and her children. She takes out a loan from an unscrupulous lender (played by Richard Tucker), who is so impressed by the charm and valiant spirit of Bennett than he neglects to ask her for collateral. Bennett, however, is only able to partially pay her creditors. Marion Nixon, Bennett's eldest daughter, is shocked by her mother's actions and attempts to sacrifice herself to Tucker in order to clear her mother's obligations, even though she is engaged to marry a well to do Harvard undergraduate, played by Rex Bell. This film is believed lost.The Tonto Kid
6
Overview:
Lawyer Creech is after the ranch of the dying Cartwright. First he brings in Cahill to pose as the only living relative. Then when the Tonto Kid finds platinum on the ranch, Creech frames him for murder.Joy Street
NYR
Overview:
Mimi, an unsophisticated American girl attending an exclusive Swiss boarding school, unexpectedly inherits a large fortune. Returning to the United States she quickly begins to live a wild and reckless life. Good-natured Joe attempts to set her straight, but she keeps right on living riotously. It takes Mimi a serious accident while joyriding to comes to her senses and realize she is ready for a more settled existence.Crashing Broadway
4
Overview:
When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.Law and Lead
NYR
Overview:
A cowboy hears rumors that an old friend who once headed a criminal gang and had since gone straight is now back on the wrong side of the law. He goes to investigate.Forgotten Women
NYR
Overview:
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.Too Much Beef
4
Overview:
Someone is adding beef to Rocky Brown's herds and changing the brands to make it look like he is rustling. Then he is framed for murder and jailed. Johnny Argyle who has been sent to investigate believes he is innocent and sets out to prove it and starts with hides that have been rebranded.The Fugitive
NYR
Overview:
A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is. So Government Agent Joe goes to prison and makes friends with Dutch. When Joe breaks them out, Dutch leads them to the money only to find it gone. But Dutch's old gang is on hand and they haven't found it either.Acting
1999Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl as Self (archive footage)
1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961The Misfits as Old Cowboy (uncredited)
1950Cowboys & Injuns (12 Episodes) as Unknown
1942Dawn on the Great Divide as Jack Carson
1942Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die as Virgil Earp
1936Stormy Trails as Tom Storm
1936Law and Lead as Jimmy Sawyer
1936Men of the Plains as Jim Dean - aka Tom Porter
1936The Idaho Kid as Todd Hollister aka Idaho
1936West of Nevada as Jim Carden, posing as Jim Lloyd
1936Too Much Beef as Johnny Argyle alias Tucson Smith
1935Saddle Aces as Steve Brandt
1935Fighting Pioneers as Lieutenant Bentley
1934The Tonto Kid as 'Skeets" Slawson aka The Tonto Kid
1934Gunfire as Unknown
1933Rainbow Ranch as Ed "Tex" Randall
1933The Fugitive as Joe Kean
1933Fighting Texans as Randy Graves
1933Crashing Broadway as Tad Wallace
1933Diamond Trail as 'Speed' Morgan, posing as Frisco Eddie
1933Hollywood on Parade No. A-8 as Unknown
1932Lucky Larrigan as Craig Larrigan
1932The Man from Arizona as Kent Rogers
1932Broadway to Cheyenne as 'Breezy' Kildare
1932The Arm of the Law as Robin Dale, a Reporter
1931Forgotten Women as Jimmy Burke
1931Battling with Buffalo Bill as Dave Archer
1931Disappearing Enemies as Paul
1930Lightnin' as Larry - Betty's Husband
1930True to the Navy as Eddie
1930Courage as Lynn Willard
1930Harmony at Home as Dick Grant
1929They Had to See Paris as Clark McCurdy
1929Happy Days as Rex Bell
1929Salute as Cadet (uncredited)
1929Joy Street as Eddie
1928The Cowboy Kid as Jim Barrett