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Rex Bell was born George Francis Beldam (October 16, 1903 – July 4, 1962), was an American actor and politician. He was the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Nevada and a western movie star. Rex was born in Chicago and married actress Clara Bow in 1931. They had two sons, Tony Beldam (1934-2011, changed name to Rex Anthony Bell, Jr.) and George Beldam, Jr. (born 1938). In 1931, Rex and Clara founded the Walking Box Ranch. They lived in Searchlight, Nevada.
In 1944 Bell ran for the United States House of Representatives on the Republican ticket against Democrat Berkeley Bunker. The Nevada State Journal commented on November 1: “He has made friends where ever he appeared but consensus is that the time is too short to overcome a handicap of not being so well known as his opponent”. The election was held November 7, and Bell got 19,096 votes against Bunker who received 36,648.
Bell was the leader of the Nevada Republican Party and in 1948 was an alternate to the Republican National Convention. He was also active in the Nevada Chamber of Commerce and Boy Scouts.
The ties Bell forged during those years helped him win the lieutenant governor’s office in 1954. That year Charles H. Russell, the incumbent GOP governor, also won. In 1958 Democrat Grant Sawyer unseated Russell, but Bell won re-election as lieutenant governor. He died in office in 1962.
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His final film appearance was a brief cameo as a cowboy in John Huston’s film The Misfits (1961), which was shot on location in Nevada. He appeared in the film with actress Marilyn Monroe, who died a month after Rex in the summer of 1962.
The Rex Bell Elementary School in Las Vegas was named in honor of Bell.
Acting credits
1961 The Misfits
Old Cowboy (uncredited)
1952 Sky Full of Moon
Rex Bell (uncredited)
1952 Lone Star
Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
1949 Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner (Short)
Rex Bell
1942 Dawn on the Great Divide
Jack Carson
1942 Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Virgil Earp
1936 Stormy Trails
Tom Storm
1936 Law and Lead
Jimmy Sawyer
1936 Men of the Plains
Jim Dean aka Tom Porter
1936 The Idaho Kid
Todd Hollister aka Idaho
1936 West of Nevada
Jim Carden, posing as Jim Lloyd
1936 Too Much Beef
Johnny Argyle alias Tucson Smith
1935 Saddle Aces
Steve Brandt
1935 Border Vengeance
Announced Rodeo Guest Star (uncredited)
1935 Fighting Pioneers
Lieutenant Bentley
1934 Gunfire
Jerry Dunbar
1934 The Tonto Kid
‘Skeets” Slawson aka The Tonto Kid
1933 Rainbow Ranch
Ed ‘Tex’ Randall
1933 The Fugitive
Joe Kean
1933 The Fighting Texans
Randy Graves
1933 Diamond Trail
‘Speed’ Morgan, posing as Frisco Eddie
1932 Crashin’ Broadway
Tad Wallace
1932 Lucky Larrigan
Craig ‘Lucky’ Larrigan
1932 The Man from Arizona
Kent Rogers
1932 Broadway to Cheyenne
‘Breezy’ Kildare
1932 Arm of the Law
Robin Dale, a Reporter
1931 Law of the Sea
Cole – Their Son Grown-up
1931 Forgotten Women
Jimmy Burke
1931 Battling with Buffalo Bill
Dave Archer
1931 Disappearing Enemies (Short)
Paul
1930 Lightnin’
Larry – Betty’s Husband
1930 True to the Navy
Eddie
1930 Courage
Lynn Willard
1930 Harmony at Home
Dick Grant
1929 They Had to See Paris
Clark McCurdy
1929 Salute
Cadet (uncredited)
1929 Pleasure Crazed
Peters (chauffeur)
1929 Joy Street
Eddie
1928 Taking a Chance
Joe Courtney
1928 Girl-Shy Cowboy
Joe Benson
1928 The Cowboy Kid
Jim Barrett
1928 Wild West Romance
Phil O’Malley