James Bell
Popularity:0.546
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1891-11-30
Place of Birth:Suffolk, Virginia, USA
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Also Known As:James Harlee Bell

Man on the Ledge (1955)
Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk...

Dead Reckoning (1946)
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the...

The Tin Star (1957)
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.

Black Tuesday (1954)
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning...

The Spiral Staircase (1946)
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

The Company She Keeps (1951)
A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.

Holiday Inn (1942)
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon...

Brute Force (1947)
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of...

The Leopard Man (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

-30- (1959)
A newspaper editor deals with a particularly stressful day in the newsroom.

Dial 1119 (1950)
A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of...

The Lonely Man (1957)
Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds...

A Lawless Street (1955)
A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

Blind Spot (1947)
A mystery writer becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when a publisher he last saw is found dead.

I, Jane Doe (1948)
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The...

Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he...

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early...

Japanese War Bride (1952)
A Korean war vet and his bride face subtle and sometimes extreme racism when they return to his home in rural California.

Private Detective 62 (1933)
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at...

The Unknown (1946)
"The Unknown" was the final entry in Columbia’s I Love A Mystery series. A woman hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim...

My Friend Flicka (1943)
Ken McLaughlin is a precocious 10-year-old who lives with his family on a remote Wyoming ranch. When Ken returns home from school with failing...

Philo Vance's Secret Mission (1947)
Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder...

Crime Wave (1953)
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then...

Thunderhead: Son of Flicka (1945)
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.

Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve Miller finds it hard to get...

Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)
A delinquent girl involves an innocent friend in an armed robbery followed by a jail-break and hostage-taking with her equally delinquent boyfriend.

In Love and War (1958)
Three Marines take shore leave in San Francisco during World War II. Frankie O'Neill visits his lower-class dysfunctional family; Nico Kantaylis...

Killer McCoy (1947)
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing,...

Gangway for Tomorrow (1943)
Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a...

Driftwood (1947)
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.

So Proudly We Hail (1943)
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped...

The Last Posse (1953)
A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

Streets of Laredo (1949)
Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate....

Red Mountain (1951)
Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold...

A Day of Fury (1956)
Town marshal Alan Burnett life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade, a gunslinger just returned after...

Wild Horse Ambush (1952)
A man has kidnaped an engraver and has him forging Mexican bills. He captures wild horses supposedly to sell for hides but uses them to transport the...

Texas Lady (1955)
Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. ...

The Dakota Kid (1951)
Dakota Kid is a young outlaw who joins a gang headed by Ace Crandall. Crandall's aim is to unseat Sheriff Tom White and then use his power to enrich...

White Woman (1933)
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is...

Sincerely Yours (1955)
He dazzled America for decades with his musical artistry. Now fans as well as those curious about this exciting entertainer’s unique appeal can...

Johnny Trouble (1957)
An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she's never met.

I Love a Soldier (1944)
During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and...

Huk! (1956)
After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to his family's plantation in the Philippines to settle his slain father's estate. Boyhood...

Lay That Rifle Down (1955)
A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.

Escape to Sonoita (1960)
Two kidnappers think they have made their escape when they hijack a tanker in the dry desert, leaving the occupants and a female victim behind to die.

The Trap (1959)
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the...

Crossroads - U.S.A. (1952)
Group of people trapped in gas station during a storm teach a young man valuable life lessons.

Storm at Daybreak (1933)
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into...

Ride the Man Down (1952)
After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.

Back from the Dead (1957)
A woman is possessed by the spirt of her husband's deceased first wife, turning her into a cold, scheming flirt who will stop at nothing to get what...

Arizona Manhunt (1951)
Arizona Manhunt was the second entry in Republic's "Rough Ridin' Kids" series. Michael Chapin returns as Red, the precocious grandson of Sheriff...

Marty (1955)
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family...

The Tilted Tenderfoot (1955)
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.

Four Girls in Town (1957)
Four young starlets, from various parts of the world, are called to Hollywood to test for the lead in a major film. Each is romantically pursued by...

Claudelle Inglish (1961)
A young daughter of poor farmers is forced by her mother to ditch her young boyfriend in order to marry an old rich neighbor but the girl rebels by...

The Millerson Case (1947)
While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when...

Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas (1951)
At the end of the Civil War, Sam White returns home to his ranch in the Texas ranch -The Panhandle - to find it in the hands of a gang of outlaws

Student Tour (1934)
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.

Devil's Canyon (1953)
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.

Infernal Machine (1933)
This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris....

Blood on the Sun (1945)
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset...

Black Eagle (1948)
Black Eagle is based on The Passing of Black Eagle, a short story by O. Henry. William Bishop stars as Jason Bond, who stays out of trouble by the...

Riding Shotgun (1954)
When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang.

The Oregon Trail (1959)
In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He hopes to confirm a rumor that President Polk is...

The King's Vacation (1933)
The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne.

Posse from Hell (1961)
Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men,...

The Girl of the Limberlost (1945)
Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her...

Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.

Roughshod (1949)
Rancher Clay and his brother, Steve, head out across the Sonora mountain pass, followed by Lednov, an ex-con seeking revenge on Clay for putting him...

Day of Reckoning (1933)
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a...

Sealed Verdict (1948)
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to...

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive (1953)
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has...

The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early...

The Sea of Grass (1947)
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Twilight of Honor (1963)
A young lawyer defends a drifter accused of murder that he has already confessed to. He asks a retired, legendary lawyer for help.

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958)
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Perry Mason (1957)
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Whirlybirds (1957)
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Checkmate (1960)
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