James Newill
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Pittsburgh-born James Newill attended the University of Southern California where he excelled in music and sports. After graduation, Newill appeared as a baritone singer in vaudeville and on radio. His first film was Grand National's Something to Sing... more
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Cast: Dave "Tex" O'Brien George Morrell Reed Howes James Newill Dan White
Tags: Western Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film B-Western
Length: 51min
A "Texas Rangers" series entry from PRC, this low budget western features Dave "Tex" O'Brien as a stranger in town introducing himself as the notorious bandit Spade Norton. Crooked saloon owner Red Hayden (I. Stanford Jolley) believes him at first but...
Cast: Dave "Tex" O'Brien Charles King James Newill Elmer Clifton Bob Kortman
Tags: Action Western B-Western
Length: 56min
No, the "Pinto Bandit" doesn't go around stealing beans. This is another of PRC's "Texas Rangers" series, starring Dave O'Brien and Jim Newell. This time, the Rangers' principal foe is a masked desperado. Evidently, the villain's main purpose in life...
Cast: Ralph Staub Warren Hull William Pawley Dave "Tex" O'Brien Roy Barcroft
Tags: Romantic Adventure Action Adventure Western
Length: 57min
Yukon Flight is one of several Monogram programmers starring James Newill as Renfrew of the Royal Mounted. This time Renfrew is on the trail of the operators of a crooked air freight service. The villains have been helping themselves to the cargo and...
Cast: Dave "Tex" O'Brien Ralph Staub Guy Usher Dick Rich James Newill
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Western
Length: 57min
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted rides again in the Criterion/Monogram "northern" Danger Ahead. There's not a whole lot of plot to speak of, as Renfrew (James Newill) gets involved with a crooked banker (John Dilson) and his raffish henchman (Dick Rich)....
Cast: Dave "Tex" O'Brien Al St. John Harry "Snub" Pollard James Newill Chief Thundercloud
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Whodunit
Length: 57min
In the sixth of eight Renfrew of the Royal Mounted "Northwesterns," mounties Renfrew (James Newill) and Kelly (Dave O'Brien) come across the body of a murdered prospector, Jim Smithers (Budd Buster). The dead man's cabin has been tossed, it turns out,...
Cast: Benny Rubin Dave "Tex" O'Brien Sam Newfield Milburn Stone Ole Olsen
Tags: Action Adventure Police Detective Film
Length: 57min
Fighting Mad was the second of producer Phil Krasne's "Renfrew of the Royal Mounted" films to be released by Monogram (taking over from the defunct Grand National Pictures). In this endeavor, Renfrew (James Newill) and his young pal Kelly (Dave...
Cast: Milburn Stone Warren Hull Elmer Clifton James Newill Iron Eyes Cody
Length: 61min
This adventure is the last entry in the "Renfrew of the Mounties" series. This time the tuneful Mountie travels to the north woods where he must thwart an American mobster's plot to swipe a large gold shipment. Interspersed amongst the action are two...
On the Great White Trail (1938)
Cast: Albert Herman Charles King Richard Tucker James Newill Carl Mathews
Length: 58min
On the Great White Trail was the second B-picture inspired by Laurie York Erskine's "Renfrew of the Royal Mounted" books. James Newill is back as Renfrew, who on this occasion tries to solve a robbery and murder. The villains are a gang of fur thieves...
Renfrew on the Great White Trail (1937)
Cast: Dwight Frye Albert Herman Carolyn Hughes James Newill Dave "Tex" O'Brien
Tags: Musical Western Adventure Western
Length: 58min
An uneven mix of '30s crook melodrama and Rose Marie-inspired mountie omance, Renfrew of the Royal Mounted of radio fame came to the screen in 1937, courtesy of the founder of Grand National, Edward L. Alperson. Chosen to play the strapping title...
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