Career
Newell was most active in the 1930s, familiar to fans of the Our Gang short subjects in his recurring role as Alfalfa"s father, and as Doctor Henley on Our Mission Brooks. Newell was cast as a hobo in "Little Boy Blew," one of the last episodes of the Walter Brennan sitcom, The Real McCoys, then airing on Columbia Broadcasting System. He died in 1967 and is interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.