Actor. He was a prolific actor who was best known for playing the character roles of fathers, reverends, insurance salesmen, butlers, ranchers, gamblers, stage drivers, deputies, and bartenders, in both silent films and sound films, usually in classic westerns, but some were uncredited. He will be best remembered for playing the role of 'Sergeant-Major Flannigan' in the film epic western, "Custer's Last Stand" (1936). The film which was directed by Elmer Clifton, which was written for the screen by George Arthur Durlam, Eddie Graneman, and William Lively, and which also starred Rex Lease, Lona Andre, and William Farnum, tells the story of when some men are attacked by Indians, a survivor obtains an Indian medicine arrow. An Indian tells Blade he has found gold but will not tell him where until he has that arrow. So Blade starts killing the survivors of the attack but fails to get the arrow. One of the men he kills is John Cardigan and Kit Cardigan, a Scout for Custer, now starts looking for the killer of his father. He was born as George Thomas Morrell in California to Thomas Morrell and his wife Mary Morrell on April 10, 1871. He was educated locally and later pursued and acting career. He made his actual film debut playing the role of 'Beppo' in the film drama, "The Secret Of Eve" (1917). The film which was directed by Perry N. Vekroff, which was written by Aaron Hoffman, and which also starred Olga Petrova, Arthur Hoops, and William Hinckley. Besides, playing the role of 'Beppo' in the film drama, "The Secret Of Eve" (1917), and playing the role of 'Sergeant-Major Flannigan' in the film epic western, "Custer's Last Stand" (1936), his many other film credits include, "The Heart Of The North" (1921), "Clara Cleans Her Teeth" (1926), "When George Hops" (1928), "Silent Sentinel" (1929), "The Virginian" (1929), "Trapped" (1931), "The Montana Kid" (1931), "The Lightning Warrior" (1931), "Battling With Buffalo Bill" (1931), "Air Eagles" (1931), "Ghost City" (1932), "Law And Order" (1932), "Riders Of The Desert" (1932), "Hello Trouble" (1932), "The Gambling Sex" (1932), "The Fighting Champ" (1932), "Crashin' Broadway" (1932), "Man Of Action" (1933), "Breed Of The Border" (1933), "The Dude Bandit" (1933), "The Whirlwind" (1933), "The Whispering Shadow" (1933), "Diamond Trail" (1933), "The Return Of Casey Jones" (1933), "Fighting Texans" (1933), "Rainbow Ranch" (1933), "The Big Chance" (1933), "The Trail Drive" (1933), "The Fighting Code" (1933), "The Lucky Texan" (1934), "Gambling Lady" (1934), "I Can't Escape" (1934), "Law Of The Wild" (1934), "The West On Parade" (1934), "Thunder Over Texas" (1934), "The Fighting Trooper" (1934), "Broadway Bill" (1934), "Range Warfare" (1934), "Neath Of The Arizona Skies" (1934), "Night Alarm" (1934), "Girl Trouble" (1934), "The Cactus Kid" (1935), "North Of Arizona" (1935), "Coyote Trails" (1935), "A Shot In The Dark" (1935), "Wolf Riders" (1935), "Wilderness Mail" (1935), "The Pecos Kid" (1935), "Born To Battle" (1935), "The Drunkard" (1935), "The Cowboy And The Bandit" (1935), "Pals Of The Range" (1935), "Cyclone Of The Saddle" (1935), "The Circle Of Death" (1935), "Tombstone Terror" (1935), "Silent Valley" (1935), "Fighting Caballero" (1935), "The Silver Bullet" (1935), "The Hawk" (1935), "Code Of The Mounted" (1935), "The Outlaw Deputy" (1935), "The Dawn Rider" (1935), "Captured In Chinatown" (1935), "Shadows Of The Orient" (1935), "Danger Ahead" (1935), "Paradise Canyon" (1935), "Sundown Saunders" (1935), "Danger Trails" (1935), "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (1935), "Harmony Lane" (1935), "Rough Riding Ranger" (1935), "Wild Mustang" (1935), "Between Men" (1935), "The Live Wire" (1935), "Timber War" (1935), "The Law Of The 45's" (1935), "Gun Play" (1935), "Lawless Riders" (1935), "The Courageous Avenger" (1935), "Swifty" (1935), "Trigger Tom" (1935), "Thunderbolt" (1935), "Texas Jack" (1935), "Just My Luck" (1935), "Bulldog Courage" (1935), "Blazing Justice" (1936), "Valley Of The Lawless" (1936), "Murder On The Road" (1936), "A Face In The Fog" (1936), "The Kid Ranger" (1936), "The Lawless Nineties" (1936), "Lucky Terror" (1936), "Hair-Trigger Casey" (1936), "Border Caballero" (1936), "Red River Valley" (1936), "Desert Phantom "(1936), "Lightnin' Bill Carson" (1936), "The Amazing Exploits Of The Clutching Hand" (1936), "Rogue Of The Range" (1936), "Roamin' Wild" (1936), "Last Of The Warrens" (1936), "The Crime Patrol" (1936), "Too Much Beef" (1936), "Everyman's Law" (1936), "Guns And Guitars" (1936), "The Law Rides" (1936), "Winds Of The Wasteland" (1936), "The Phantom Rider" (1936), "Idaho Kid" (1936), "Santa Fe Bound" (1936), "Oh, Susanna!" (1936), "The Vigilantes Are Coming" (1936), "Romance Rides The Range" (1936), "Undercover Man" (1936), "The President's Mystery" (1936), "Men Of The Plains" (1936), "Cavalcade Of The West" (1936), "Rip Roarin' Buckaroo" (1936), "Ambush Valley" (1936), "Law And Lead" (1936), "The Gun Ranger" (1936), "Lawless Land" (1936), "Fury Below" (1936), "Stormy Trails" (1936), "The Roaming Cowboy" (1937), "Ranger Courage" (1937), "Valley Of Terror" (1937), "Blake Of Scotland Yard" (1937), "Arizona Days" (1937), "The Gambling Terror" (1937), "Paradise Express" (1937), "Round-Up Time In Texas" (1937), "Hit The Saddle" (1937), "Trouble In Texas" (1937), "Git Along Little Dogies" (1937), "Melody Of The Plains" (1937), "Hittin' The Trail" (1937), "Two Gun Law" (1937), "California Straight Ahead!" (1937), "Bar-Z Bad Men" (1937), "Mystery Range" (1937), "The Trusted Outlaw" (1937), "Law of The Ranger" (1937), "Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm" (1937), "Come On, Cowboys" (1937), "The Painted Stallion" (1937), "Orphan Of The Pecos" (1937), "Island Captives" (1937), "Yodelin' Kid From Pine Ridge" (1937), "Two-Fisted Sheriff" (1937), "North Of The Rio Grande" (1937), "Range Defenders" (1937), "Brothers Of The West" (1937), "Riders Of The Rockies" (1937), "Boots Of Destiny" (1937), "Rustlers' Valley" (1937), "Heroes Of The Alamo" (1937), "Moonlight On The Range" (1937), "Where Trails Divide" (1937), "Danger Valley" (1937), "Luck Of Roaring Camp" (1937), "Tex Rides With The Boy Scouts" (1937), "Outlaws Of The Prairie" (1937), "Boy Of The Streets" (1937), "The Mysterious Pilot" (1937), "The Singing Outlaw" (1937), "Where The West Begins" (1938), "Cattle Raiders" (1938), "Child Bride" (1938), "Knight Of The Plains" (1938), "Rawhide" (1938), "Code Of The Rangers" (1938), "Under Western Stars" (1938), "Whirlwind Horseman" (1938), "Six-Shootin' Sheriff" (1938), "Phantom Ranger" (1938), "Gunsmoke Trail" (1938), "The Great Adventures Of Wild Bill Hickok" (1938), "Rollin' Plains" (1938), "Pride Of The West" (1938), "South Of Arizona" (1938), "Utah Trail" (1938), "Billy The Kid Returns" (1938), "Overland Stage Raiders" (1938), "West Of The Santa Fe" (1938), "Six-Gun Trail" (1938), "Santa Fe Stampede" (1938), "Western Jamboree" (1938), "Song Of The Buckaroo" (1938), "Rio Grande" (1938), "California Frontier" (1938), "The Frontiersmen" (1938), "Phantom Gold" (1938), "The Painted Stallion" (1938), "Ghost Town Riders" (1939), "Code Of The Fearless" (1939), "The Thundering West" (1939), "Trigger Pals" (1939), "In Old Monatna" (1939), "Six-Gun Rhythm" (1939), "The Lone Ranger Rides Again" (1939), "Code Of The Cactus" (1939), "Smoky Trails" (1939), "Two Gun Troubador" (1939), "Lure Of The Wasteland" (1939), "Silver On The Sage" (1939), "Texas Wildcats" (1939), "Outlaws' Paradise" (1939), "Spoilers Of The Range" (1939), "Man Of Conquest" (1939), "Wolf Call" (1939), "Down The Wyoming Trail" (1939), "Fangs Of The Wild" (1939), "Colorado Sunset" (1939), "Straight Shooter" (1939), "The Man From Tascosa" (1939), "Riders Of Black River" (1939), "Range War" (1939), "Outpost Of The Mounties" (1939), "Taming Of The West" (1939), "Overload Mail" (1939), "Days Of Jesse James" (1939), "The Shadow" (1940), "Pioneer Days" (1940), "Santa Fe Marshal" (1940), "Pioneers Of The Frontier" (1940), "The Heckler" (1940), "The Cheyenne Kid" (1940), "The Showdown" (1940), "Phantom Rancher" (1940), "Covered Wagon Trails" (1940), "The Man From Tumbleweeds" (1940), "The Kid From Santa Fe" (1940), "Texas Stagecoach" (1940), "Hidden Gold" (1940), "Frontier Crusader" (1940), "Grand Ole Opry" (1940), "Adventures Of Red Ryder" (1940), "Winners Of The West" (1940), "Stagecoach War" (1940), "Deadwood Dick" (1940), "Wildcat Bus" (1940), "Up In The Air" (1940), Prairie Schooners" (1940), "Billy The Kid In Texas" (1940), "Beyond The Sacramento" (1940), "Three Men From Texas" (1940), "Friendly Neighbors" (1940), "Billy The Kid's Gun Justice" (1940), "Buzzy Rides The Range" (1940), "The Lone Rider Rides On" (1941), "The Kid's Last Ride" (1941), "The Lone Rider Crosses The Rio" (1941), "The Round Up" (1941), "North From The Lone Star" (1941), "Buzzy And The Phantom Pinto" (1941), "Wrangler's Roost" (1941), "Hands Across The Rockies" (1941), "Puddin' Head" (1941), "Billy The Kid In Santa Fe" (1941), "The Texas Marshal" (1941), "Father Steps Out" (1941), "The Lone Rider In Frontier Fury" (1941), "King Of Dodge City" (1941), "Bad Man Of Deadwood" (1941), "Prairie Stranger" (1941), "Billy The Kid Wanted" (1941), "Texas" (1941), "Tonto Basin Outlaws" (1941), "The Lone Rider Fights Back" (1941), "The Royal Mounted Patrol" (1941), "Underground Rustlers" (1941), "Billy The Kid's Round-Up" (1941), "Texas Man Hunt" (1942), "West Of Tombstone" (1942), "The Lone Rider And The Bandit" (1942), "Raiders Of The West" (1942), "Lawless Plainsmen" (1942), "The Dawn Express" (1942), "North Of The Rockies" (1942), "Billy The Kid's Smoking Guns" (1942), "Down Texas Way" (1942), "Perils Of The Royal Mounted" (1942), "Riders Of The Northland" (1942), "Tumbleweed Trail" (1942), "Prairie Gunsmoke" (1942), "A Yank In Libya" (1942), "Hillbilly Blitzkrieg" (1942), "Vengeance Of The West" (1942), "Riders Of The West" (1942), "Law And Order" (1942), "Prairie PAls" (1942), "Baby Face Morgan" (1942), "Overland Stagecoach" (1942), "Undercover Man" (1942), "Silver Queen" (1942), "Pirates Of The Prairie" (1942), "Neath Brooklyn Bridge" (1942), "Outlaws Of Boulder Pass" (1942), "Pardon My Gun" (1942), "A Tornado In The Saddle" (1942), "The Valley Of Vanishing Men" (1942), "Lost Canyon" (1942), "Dawn On The Great Divide" (1942), "The Rangers Take Over" (1942), "The Kid Rides Again" (1943), "The Ghost Rider" (1943), "Death Rides The Plains" (1943), "West Of Texas" (1943), "Western Cyclone" (1943), "Buckskin Frontier" (1943), "The Avenging Rider" (1943), "Leather Burners" (1943), "Wolves Of The Range" (1943), "The Stranger From Pecos" (1943), "Law Of The Saddle" (1943), "Six Gun Gospel" (1943), "Fighting Valley" (1943), "Cattle Stampede" (1943), "Black Market Rustlers" (1943), "Blazing Frontier" (1943), "Raiders Of The Red Gap" (1943), "Garden Of Eatin' (1943), "Bullets And Saddles" (1943), "Silver City Raiders" (1943), "False Colors" (1943), "Phony Express" (1943), "Klondike Kate" (1943), "The Woman Of The Town" (1943), "Texas Masquerade" (1944), "Outlaw Roundup" (1944), "Frontier Outlaws" (1944), "Thundering Gun Slingers" (1944), "Wyoming Hurricane" (1944), "Law Men" (1944), "Valley Of Vengeance" (1944), "Mystery Man" (1944), "The Last Horseman" (1944), "Range Law" (1944), "Fuzzy Settles Down" (1944), "Marked Trails" (1944), "West Of The Rio Grande" (1944), "Black Magic" (1944), "The Utah Kid" (1944), "Leave It To The Irish" (1944), "Land Of The Outlaws" (1944), "Gangsters Of The Frontier" (1944), "Trigger Law" (1944), "Wild Horse Phantom" (1944), "Law Of The Valley" (1944), "Dead Or Alive" (1944), "Ghost Guns" (1944), "Harmony Trail" (1944), "The Whispering Skull" (1944), "Wells Fargo Days" (1944), "The Big Show-Off" (1945), "His Brother's Ghost" (1945), "Gun Smoke" (1945), "Salome, Where She Danced" (1945), "Shadows Of Death" (1945), "Flame Of The West" (1945), "Wildfire" (1945), "Stagecoach Outlaws" (1945), "Frontier Fugitives" (1945), "Along The Navajo Trail" (1945), "The Lost Trail" (1945), "The Royal Mounted Rides Again" (1945), "Fighting Bill Carson" (1945), "Prairie Rustlers" (1945), "Colorado Pioneers" (1945), "Northeast Trail" (1945), "Navajo Kid" (1945), "Gun Town" (1946), "Drifting Along" (1946), "Roaring Rangers" (1946), "Throw A Saddle On A Star" (146), "Gentlemen Win Guns" (1946), "The Caravan Trail" (1946), "The Three Troubledoers" (1946), "Terrors On Horseback" (1946), "Under Arizona Skies" (1946), "Ghost Of Hidden Valley" (1946), "The Gentleman From Texas" (1946), "Rustler's Round-Up" (1946), "Trigger Fingers" (1946), "Outlaws Of The Plains" (1946), "North Of The Border" (1946), "Silver Range" (1946), "Terror Trail" (1946), "Song Of The Sierras" (1946), "Raiders Of The South" (1947), "Border Feud" (1947), "Cheyenne" (1947), "They Won't Believe Me" (1947), "Ghost Town Renegades" (1947), "Return Of The Lash" (1947), "Prairie Express" (1947), "The Prairie" (1947), "Trail Of The Mounties" (1947), "Albuquerque" (1948), "The Wreck Of The Hesperus" (1948), "Panhandle" (1948), "Oklahoma Blues" (1948), "The Rangers Ride" (1948), "Triggerman" (1948), "Back Trail" (1948), "Quick On The Trigger" (1948), "The Valiant Hombre" (1948), "I Shot Jesse James" (1949), "Gun Law Justice" (1949), "Desert Vigilante" (1949), "Stampede" (1949), "The Blazing Trail" (1949), "Lust For Gold" (1949), "Range Justice" (1949), "South Of Death Valley" (1949), "The Dalton Gang" (1949), "All The King's Men" (1949), "Lawless Code" (1949), "Red Desert" (1949), "Blazing Guns" (1949), "The Traveling Saleswoman" (1950), "Mule Train" (1950), "Rogues Of Sherwood Forest" (1950), "Atom Man vs. Superman" (1950), and "Law Of The Panhandle" (1950). His last film role was playing 'Recorder of Claims' in the action-adventure mystery film, "Gold Fever" (1952). The film which was directed by Leslie Goodwins, which was written for the screen by John Calvert, Edgar B. Anderson Jr., and Cliff Lancaster, and which also starred John Calvert, Ralph Morgan, and Ann Cornell, tells the story of John Bonar and grub-stakes Nugget Jack who has a secret gold mine. Bill Johnson is out to get the mine and he has his henchmen try to kill Bonar and Jack. They are saved by a pretty, backwoods girl, 'Rusty,' who quickly falls in love with Bonar. When Jack secretly discovers that "Rusty" is his long-lost daughter, he gives the couple his mine and goes on his lonely way. He also played the roles of a 'Rancher,' 'Poker Player,' 'First Bartender,' 'Townsman,' and 'Foster a Sharecropper,' in five episodes of the classic western television series "The Gabby Hayes Show" in 1956. These were his only television appearances. He retired from acting shortly thereafter. During his acting career, he also used the name Rex Baxter, George Morelle, and Geo. Morrell. He passed away at the Los Angeles County General Hospital in Los Angeles, California, on April 28, 1955, at the age of 84. His funeral service was held through Pierce Brothers Hollywood and he was cremated at the Chapel of the Pines in Los Angeles, California. He was married to Rosalie Reinhardt Morrell in San Joaquin, California, on March 21, 1898. The couple had no children together.