James Neill
Born: 1860-09-29 in Savannah, Georgia, USA
Died: 1931-03-16
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1930
- Shooting Straight as Reverend Powell
- Only the Brave as Vance Calhoun
1929
- The Idle Rich as Mr. Phil Thayer
1928
- Love Hungry as Pa Robinson
- The Border Patrol as Lefty Waterman
1927
- The King of Kings as James - Brother of John
1926
- A Desperate Moment as Peter Dean
1925
- Thank You as Doctor Cobb
- New Brooms
- Any Woman as William Linden
1924
- A Man's Mate as Veraign
1923
- The Ten Commandments as Aaron - Brother of Moses: Prologue
- The Thrill Chaser as Sheik Ussan
- Nobody's Money as Miller
- The World's Applause as Valet to Elliott
1922
- Manslaughter as Butler
- Saturday Night as Tompkins - the Butler
- Our Leading Citizen as Honorable Cyrus Blagdon
- Her Husband’s Trademark as Henry Strom
- The Heart Specialist as Fernald
1921
- A Voice in the Dark as Edward Small
- Dangerous Curve Ahead as Mr. Mabee
1920
- The Paliser Case as Cara
- The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come as Major Buford
- A Double-Dyed Deceiver as Senor Urique
1919
- The Secret Garden as Ben Weatherstaff
- Men, Women, and Money as Parker Middleton
- Her Kingdom of Dreams as Purdon
- Romance and Arabella as Dr. Henry
- Don't Change Your Husband as Butler
- Fires of Faith as Booth's Secretary
- Peg o' My Heart as Frank O'Connell
- Everywoman as Nobody
1918
- Sandy as Judge Hollis
- The Whispering Chorus as Channing
- We Can't Have Everything as Detective
- Women's Weapons as Peter Gregory
- The Way of a Man with a Maid as Elsa's Father
- The Widow's Might as Red
- Too Many Millions as Mr. Lane
- Say! Young Fellow as A Kindly Bachelor
- Less Than Kin as Dr. Nunez
1917
- The Little American as Senator John Moore
- What Money Can't Buy as The cardinal
- The Black Wolf as Count Ramirez
- On the Level as Warner, Mae's Father
- The Prison Without Walls as John Havens
- A School for Husbands as Auto Salesman
- The Devil Stone as Simpson
- Betty to the Rescue as Henry Sherwin
- Those Without Sin as Doctor Wallace
- The Girl at Home as Squire Padgate
- The Bottle Imp as A Priest
- Forbidden Paths as James Thornton
- The Trouble Buster as Franz Libelt
1916
- Joan the Woman as Laxart
- Oliver Twist as Mr. Brownlow
- Tennessee's Pardner as The Padre
- The Ragamuffin as A Broker
- Maria Rosa as The Priest
- A Gutter Magdalene as Goodwin
- The Dream Girl as Benjamin Merton
- To Have and to Hold as George Yeardley
- For the Defense as Mr. Webster
- The Lash as John Du Val
- The Thousand-Dollar Husband as Stephen Gordon
- The House with the Golden Windows as James Peabody
1915
- The Cheat as Jones
- The Goose Girl as Count Von Herbeck
- The Case of Becky as Dr. Emerson
- The Woman as The Honorable Mark Robertson
- The Clue ... (Director)
- The Warrens of Virginia as General Warren
- Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo as Herr Selingman
1914
- Richelieu as The King
- Cameo Kirby as John Randall
- Ready Money as Jackson Ives
- The Rose of the Rancho as Padre Antonio
- Where the Trail Divides as Sam Rowland
- Whoso Diggeth a Pit as The Sweetheart's Father
- Discord and Harmony as The Symphony Conductor
- The Circus Man as Richard Jenison
1913
- Cross Purposes as Father
- The Cracksman's Reformation as The Rich Man
- The Heart of a Cracksman as Carlton