James Neill
Birthday: 1860-09-29
Place of Birth: Savannah, Georgia, USA
Biography: 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.
Movies
Manslaughter
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of moto...
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The Bottle Imp
Lopaka, a poor Hawaiian fisherman, falls in love with Kokua, a young girl of royal blood. Her father...
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Ready Money
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city type...
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The Heart Specialist
Because he believes that romance is dead, the city editor wants to can the "advice to the lovelorn" ...
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We Can't Have Everything
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage i...
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Discord and Harmony
Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of ...
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Too Many Millions
Walsingham Van Dorn has a fancy name but no money until he inherits 40 million dollars from a pair o...
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The Cracksman's Reformation
Dorothy informs the cracksman that when he has finally renounced his life of thieving he may return ...
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The Heart of a Cracksman
Carlton, disapproving of his dissipated son and the latter's scheming wife, on his death-bed makes h...
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Cross Purposes
Cleo drops her bonnet while sitting on the wall. Young Wally picks it up; their eyes meet and the ol...
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Whoso Diggeth a Pit
Wally and the girl are in love. The rich broker covets the girl, but is rejected. The broker bids th...
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A Voice in the Dark
The solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man....
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To Have and to Hold
Lady Jocelyn, a favorite in the court of England's King James, escapes a forced marriage to the hate...
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The House with the Golden Windows
Tom Wells is dissatisfied with his lot in life. Wondering aloud whether he'd be happier if things we...
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The Prison Without Walls
Helen Ainsworth, a young philanthropist, who is interested in a prison reform movement, is engaged t...
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The Whispering Chorus
John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his pla...
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Those Without Sin
Melaine is captured by a northern soldier while she is carrying secret southern messages. She falls ...
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Less Than Kin
Lewis Vickers accidentally kills a man and goes to Central America. Here he meets Robert Lee, who be...
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The Secret Garden
A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is ...
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Love Hungry
Discouraged chorus girl is torn between a rich man and all he can offer and a starving artist which ...
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Only the Brave
Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on w...
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The Goose Girl
Count Von Herbeck, the chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein, is married but keeps the fact sec...
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The Black Wolf
In the Spanish Mountains, the Black Wolf, a bandit, reigns at the head of his band, known as "The Ch...
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The Idle Rich
Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her famil...
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Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
"Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter o...
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The World's Applause
Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted a...
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The Ragamuffin
In planning to break into the house of the wealthy Bob Van Dyke, Jenny's stepfather decides that his...
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The Paliser Case
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from rui...
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For the Defense
Two playboys stumble drunkenly home, where the owner falls asleep and the other attacks the maid. Th...
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Her Husband’s Trademark
James Berkeley (who wants to get rich) and Allan Franklin (determined to be a great engineer) are ri...
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The Warrens of Virginia
As the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. ...
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The King of Kings
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, w...
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The Thousand-Dollar Husband
Olga Nelson, a Swedish maidservant, working at a boarding house that caters to college students, is ...
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Saturday Night
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry t...
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The Cheat
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and de...
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Where the Trail Divides
Col. Landers adopts two children, "How," an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an In...
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Nobody's Money
Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real person...
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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morga...
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Cameo Kirby
Cameo Kirby is a 1914 American drama silent film directed by Oscar Apfel and written by Clara Berang...
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The Lonely Road
Betty Austin gives up her dream of going to the city and marries Warren Wade, but she sadly finds hi...
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A Double-Dyed Deceiver
Most of the scenes are laid in a parrot-and-monkey country in South America, a land where "it is alw...
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Thank You
Young Kenneth Jamieson's millionaire father, fed up with his son's wild escapades, sends him to stay...
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Joan the Woman
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, w...
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The Little American
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home i...
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Say! Young Fellow
A lost film. "The Young Fellow"(Fairbanks), has recently been hired as a cub newspaper reporter for ...
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The Rose of the Rancho
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Cast...
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Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...
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Don't Change Your Husband
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking...
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Richelieu
Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due...
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Any Woman
When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has l...
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Her Kingdom of Dreams
A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a...
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The Thrill Chaser
In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns im...
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The Ten Commandments
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receip...
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New Brooms
Thomas Bates Sr. (Robert McWade) takes his broom manufacturing business very seriously, and his idle...
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The Border Patrol
Texas Ranger Bill Storm is sent to El Paso to ferret out a gang of counterfeiters thought to be work...
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The Woman
William C. DeMille adapted his screenplay for The Woman on the stage play by DeMille's father Henry ...
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The Case of Becky
When a young girl is placed under hypnotism, it's discovered that she has a split personality....
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Forbidden Paths
Sato (Sessue Hayakawa) faithfully works for importer James Thornton (James Neill). When the old man ...
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The Girl at Home
Jimmie Dexter is on his way to college when his mother discovers that her stocks have stopped paying...
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The Devil Stone
Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy ...
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The Dream Girl
The father of San Francisco waif Meg runs an illegal liquor club and supports "English" Hal in schem...
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The Widow's Might
Dick Tavish, a young New Yorker, decides that there is money in cows, and he buys a western ranch. W...
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Romance and Arabella
Romance and Arabella is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Walter Edwards and s...
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Everywoman
Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1...
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Dangerous Curve Ahead
Engaged to Harley Jones, fickle Phoebe Mabee flirts with Anson Newton. She and Harley, as a result, ...
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Maria Rosa
Ramon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill fis...
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A Man's Mate
Paul Bonard an artist, loses his memory when he receives a blow on the head from one of two apaches ...
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The Circus Man
David Jenison, accused of a crime which he did not commit, escapes his guards and joins a traveling ...
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Fires of Faith
The story of the Salvation Army, told through the tale of two men and two women who serve in the Fir...
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Women's Weapons
The children of a a novelist, Nicholas, contract scarlet fever. His wife Anne stays in the house to ...
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On the Level
Rustler Pete Sontag kidnaps Merlin Warner after he kills her father. Pete, a drug smuggler who uses ...
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A School for Husbands
Sensible Betty Manners is the wife of the frivolous John Manners. John fritters away his time playin...
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Betty to the Rescue
Henry Sherwin is led to believe by mine expert James Fleming that the mine he invested all his money...
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A Gutter Magdalene
Maida Carrington goes to the city with gambler Jack Morgan but flees after witnessing him stealing m...
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Tennessee's Pardner
When a cowpoke steps into a fight and saves the life of a disreputable gambler, the gambler decides ...
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What Money Can't Buy
Madison Hale, a wealthy American financier, is bidding against Govrian Texler, the financial advisor...
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The Way of a Man with a Maid
When shipping clerk Arthur McArney falls in love with pretty stenographer Elsa Owenson, he finds him...
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A Desperate Moment
Virginia Dean enjoys a yachting trip with her father. She falls in love with the captain of the boat...
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Sandy
A Scots-Irish lad comes to America hoping to find his fortune. On the sea voyage he meets and falls ...
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The Trouble Buster
Soon after arriving in the U.S., Romanian immigrant Franz Libelt dies, leaving his daughter Michelna...
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The Ghost House
The old Atwell home is said to be haunted, and Jeremy Foster, the gardener--who is actually the head...
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