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James Neill (September 29, 1860 – March 16, 1931) was an American stage actor and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 113 films between 1913 and 1930.
His wife, and frequent costar on stage and screen, was Edythe Chapman.
James Neill Biography / Wiki
| Name | James Neill |
| Also Know | James Neil |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Savannah, Georgia, USA |
| Date of Birth | September 29, 1860 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 70 |
| Deathday | 1931-03-16 |
James Neill Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Warrens of Virginia | General Warren | 1915-02-14 | As the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agat… |
| The Thrill Chaser | Sheik Ussan | 1923-11-26 | In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills a… |
| The Woman | The Honorable Mark Robertson | 1915-08-23 | William C. DeMille adapted his screenplay for The Woman on the stage play by DeMille’s father Henry and David Belasco. The story is set in Washington … |
| Shooting Straight | Reverend Powell | 1930-07-20 | A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman…. |
| The Paliser Case | Cara | 1920-02-15 | A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, thr… |
| The Lash | John Du Val | 1916-10-01 | A silent drama film directed by James Young… |
| The Case of Becky | Dr. Emerson | 1915-09-13 | When a young girl is placed under hypnotism, it’s discovered that she has a split personality…. |
| The Girl at Home | Squire Padgate | 1917-04-26 | Jimmie Dexter is on his way to college when his mother discovers that her stocks have stopped paying dividends. Jean Hilton, who has always loved Jimm… |
| The Heart of a Cracksman | Carlton | 1913-11-07 | Carlton, disapproving of his dissipated son and the latter’s scheming wife, on his death-bed makes his will in favor of his devoted niece, Marcia. Hea… |
| Cross Purposes | Father | 1913-12-05 | Cleo drops her bonnet while sitting on the wall. Young Wally picks it up; their eyes meet and the old, old tale follows…. |
| Whoso Diggeth a Pit | The Sweetheart’s Father | 1914-01-09 | Wally and the girl are in love. The rich broker covets the girl, but is rejected. The broker bids the father good-bye just as the latter receives a te… |
| Only the Brave | Vance Calhoun | 1930-03-07 | Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to g… |
| The Cheat | Jones | 1915-12-13 | A venal, spoiled stockbroker’s wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to repla… |
| The Dream Girl | Benjamin Merton | 1916-07-17 | The father of San Francisco waif Meg runs an illegal liquor club and supports “English” Hal in scheme to blackmail a wealthy girl. Meg is put on proba… |
| Dangerous Curve Ahead | Mr. Mabee | 1921-10-02 | Engaged to Harley Jones, fickle Phoebe Mabee flirts with Anson Newton. She and Harley, as a result, break their engagement, but within six months they… |
| Maria Rosa | The Priest | 1916-05-07 | Ramon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill fisherman Pedro, so Andreas goes to jail for ten year… |
| Discord and Harmony | The Symphony Conductor | 1914-03-16 | Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing a… |
| The Cracksman’s Reformation | The Rich Man | 1913-11-14 | Dorothy informs the cracksman that when he has finally renounced his life of thieving he may return to her and claim her. The cracksman resolves to be… |
| The House with the Golden Windows | James Peabody | 1916-08-10 | Tom Wells is dissatisfied with his lot in life. Wondering aloud whether he’d be happier if things were different, he soon gets his chance to find out…. |
| The Black Wolf | Count Ramirez | 1917-02-12 | In the Spanish Mountains, the Black Wolf, a bandit, reigns at the head of his band, known as “The Charcoal Burners.”… |
| Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo | Herr Selingman | 1915-12-02 | “Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo” is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter of Russia, whose incognito is Mr. Grex, an English … |
| Say! Young Fellow | A Kindly Bachelor | 1918-06-16 | A lost film. “The Young Fellow”(Fairbanks), has recently been hired as a cub newspaper reporter for the New York Herald. His editor tasks him with une… |
| The Idle Rich | Mr. Phil Thayer | 1929-06-15 | Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of “the great middle class” (as blowhard n… |
| The Ragamuffin | A Broker | 1916-01-23 | In planning to break into the house of the wealthy Bob Van Dyke, Jenny’s stepfather decides that his stepdaughter should do most of the dirty work, an… |
| The King of Kings | James – Brother of John | 1927-04-19 | The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywoo… |
| Where the Trail Divides | Sam Rowland | 1914-10-12 | Col. Landers adopts two children, “How,” an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an Indian uprising. When the children are grown, How pr… |
| The Border Patrol | Lefty Waterman | 1928-12-23 | Texas Ranger Bill Storm is sent to El Paso to ferret out a gang of counterfeiters thought to be working there and, on the way, gives a ride to New Yor… |
| Forbidden Paths | James Thornton | 1917-07-12 | Sato (Sessue Hayakawa) faithfully works for importer James Thornton (James Neill). When the old man dies, he leaves his daughter Mildred (Vivian Marti… |
| The Devil Stone | Simpson | 1917-12-16 | Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy American Silas Martin marries her, then sets her u… |
| The Widow’s Might | Red | 1918-01-28 | Dick Tavish, a young New Yorker, decides that there is money in cows, and he buys a western ranch. When the novelty has worn off he decided there is m… |
| Too Many Millions | Mr. Lane | 1918-12-08 | Walsingham Van Dorn has a fancy name but no money until he inherits 40 million dollars from a pair of wealthy, but wicked, uncles…. |
| Those Without Sin | Doctor Wallace | 1917-03-01 | Melaine is captured by a northern soldier while she is carrying secret southern messages. She falls into the hands of her father’s former superior who… |
| Less Than Kin | Dr. Nunez | 1918-07-21 | Lewis Vickers accidentally kills a man and goes to Central America. Here he meets Robert Lee, who bears a remarkable resemblance to him. Lee is a wort… |
| Love Hungry | 1928-04-08 | … | |
| The Goose Girl | Count Von Herbeck | 1915-01-25 | Count Von Herbeck, the chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein, is married but keeps the fact secret on account of his high ambitions. His wife, dy… |
| For the Defense | Mr. Webster | 1916-03-12 | Two playboys stumble drunkenly home, where the owner falls asleep and the other attacks the maid. The butler intervenes and a fight results in the dea… |
| The Rose of the Rancho | Padre Antonio | 1914-11-15 | Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off … |
| Oliver Twist | Mr. Brownlow | 1916-12-10 | An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their … |
| Richelieu | The King | 1914-09-26 | Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews. A lost film…. |
| Any Woman | William Linden | 1925-05-04 | When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has lost all his money. She must get a job to help supp… |
| The Ten Commandments | Aaron – Brother of Moses: Prologue | 1923-11-23 | The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden cal… |
| The Heart Specialist | Fernald | 1922-04-09 | Because he believes that romance is dead, the city editor wants to can the “advice to the lovelorn” column. Rosalie Beckwith, the column’s author, nat… |
| To Have and to Hold | George Yeardley | 1916-03-05 | Lady Jocelyn, a favorite in the court of England’s King James, escapes a forced marriage to the hated Lord Carnal by fleeing to American colonies. The… |
| The Prison Without Walls | John Havens | 1917-03-15 | Helen Ainsworth, a young philanthropist, who is interested in a prison reform movement, is engaged to Norman Morris, administrator of the Ainsworth mi… |
| The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come | Major Buford | 1920-02-01 | An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morgan’s raiders. He learns his real identity when he r… |
| Joan the Woman | Laxart | 1916-12-25 | A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives…. |
| Don’t Change Your Husband | Butler | 1919-01-26 | Leila porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries tw… |
| Romance and Arabella | Dr. Henry | 1919-02-15 | Romance and Arabella is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Walter Edwards and starring Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, and Mon… |
| The Bottle Imp | A Priest | 1917-03-25 | Lopaka, a poor Hawaiian fisherman, falls in love with Kokua, a young girl of royal blood. Her father refuses to let him marry her, though, unless Lopa… |
| Ready Money | Jackson Ives | 1914-11-05 | Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York…. |
| Her Husband’s Trademark | Henry Strom | 1922-02-01 | James Berkeley (who wants to get rich) and Allan Franklin (determined to be a great engineer) are rivals for the hand of Lois Miller. Berkeley marries… |
| New Brooms | 1925-10-12 | Thomas Bates Sr. (Robert McWade) takes his broom manufacturing business very seriously, and his idle son, Tom Jr. (Neil Hamilton), calls him a grouch…. | |
| The World’s Applause | Valet to Elliott | 1923-01-29 | Corinne d’Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted artist Robert Townsend (Menjou). Robert is married … |
| We Can’t Have Everything | Detective | 1918-07-07 | A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But t… |
| Thank You | Doctor Cobb | 1925-10-05 | Young Kenneth Jamieson’s millionaire father, fed up with his son’s wild escapades, sends him to stay on a chicken farm in the small village of Dedham…. |
| A Voice in the Dark | Edward Small | 1921-06-05 | The solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man…. |
| The Whispering Chorus | Channing | 1918-03-28 | John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. Du… |
| The Secret Garden | Ben Weatherstaff | 1919-01-12 | A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle’s estate…. |
| The Little American | Senator John Moore | 1917-07-12 | A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality fir… |
| Everywoman | Nobody | 1919-12-30 | Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne…. |
| Saturday Night | Tompkins – the Butler | 1922-01-29 | Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress’ daughter Shamrock. Class diff… |
| Nobody’s Money | Miller | 1923-01-28 | Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real person when the book is a huge success. Ailing literary … |
| Manslaughter | Butler | 1922-09-24 | Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia’s fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman…. |
| Her Kingdom of Dreams | Purdon | 1919-09-21 | A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl…. |
James Neill Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Where the Trail Divides | Director | 1914-10-12 | Col. Landers adopts two children, “How,” an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an Indian uprising. When the children are grown, How pr… |
| The Clue | Director | 1915-07-08 | Russian brothers Count Boris and Alexis Rabourdin obtain a Japanese coastline defense map and plan to sell it to German agents in London. In America, … |
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