David Newell

David Newell was originally an actor who became a makeup artist after being involved in a car crash that left him with some facial disfigurement David Newell was primarily known as an American character actor whose acting career spanned from the very beginning of the sound film era through the middle of the 1950s He made his film debut in a featured role in The Hole in the Wall a 1929 film starring Edward G Robinson and Claudette Colbert Early in his career he had many featured roles in such films as RKOs The Runaway Bride in 1929 starring Mary Astor 1931s Ten Cents a Dance starring Barbara Stanwyck and directed by Lionel Barrymore and White Heat in 1934 In the late 1940s he also began working as a makeup artist which he transitioned fulltime to in 1955 this was due to injuries sustained during a car accident which left him physically disfigured He retired from the film industry in 1961 although he continued to work in television through the beginning of the 1970s his last position being the makeup artist on the television show Lassie From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia