Date of birth: 1860-09-29
Place of birth: Savannah, Georgia, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: James Neil, James F. Neill

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.

1922-09-24
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of moto

1917-03-25
Lopaka, a poor Hawaiian fisherman, falls in love with Kokua, a young girl of royal blood. Her father

1914-11-05
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city type

1922-04-09
Because he believes that romance is dead, the city editor wants to can the "advice to the lovelorn"

1918-07-07
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage i

1914-03-16
Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of

1918-12-08
Walsingham Van Dorn has a fancy name but no money until he inherits 40 million dollars from a pair o
1913-11-07
Carlton, disapproving of his dissipated son and the latter's scheming wife, on his death-bed makes h
1913-11-14
Dorothy informs the cracksman that when he has finally renounced his life of thieving he may return
1913-12-05
Cleo drops her bonnet while sitting on the wall. Young Wally picks it up; their eyes meet and the ol
1914-01-09
Wally and the girl are in love. The rich broker covets the girl, but is rejected. The broker bids th

1921-06-05
The solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man.

1916-03-05
Lady Jocelyn, a favorite in the court of England's King James, escapes a forced marriage to the hate

1916-08-10
Tom Wells is dissatisfied with his lot in life. Wondering aloud whether he'd be happier if things we

1917-03-15
Helen Ainsworth, a young philanthropist, who is interested in a prison reform movement, is engaged t

1918-03-28
John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his pla

1917-03-01
Melaine is captured by a northern soldier while she is carrying secret southern messages. She falls

1918-07-21
Lewis Vickers accidentally kills a man and goes to Central America. Here he meets Robert Lee, who be

1919-01-12
A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is

1928-04-08
Discouraged chorus girl is torn between a rich man and all he can offer and a starving artist which

1930-03-07
Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on w

1915-01-25
Count Von Herbeck, the chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein, is married but keeps the fact sec

1917-02-12
In the Spanish Mountains, the Black Wolf, a bandit, reigns at the head of his band, known as "The Ch

1929-06-15
Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her famil

1930-07-20
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
1915-12-02
"Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter o

1923-01-29
Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted a

1916-01-23
In planning to break into the house of the wealthy Bob Van Dyke, Jenny's stepfather decides that his

1920-02-15
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from rui

1916-03-12
Two playboys stumble drunkenly home, where the owner falls asleep and the other attacks the maid. Th

1922-02-01
James Berkeley (who wants to get rich) and Allan Franklin (determined to be a great engineer) are ri

1915-02-14
As the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army.

1927-04-19
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, w
1916-05-29
Olga Nelson, a Swedish maidservant, working at a boarding house that caters to college students, is

1922-01-29
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry t

1915-12-13
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and de

1914-10-12
Col. Landers adopts two children, "How," an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an In

1920-02-01
An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morga

1923-01-28
Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real person

1914-12-24
Cameo Kirby is a 1914 American drama silent film directed by Oscar Apfel and written by Clara Berang

Betty Austin gives up her dream of going to the city and marries Warren Wade, but she sadly finds hi

1920-06-22
Most of the scenes are laid in a parrot-and-monkey country in South America, a land where "it is alw

1925-10-05
Young Kenneth Jamieson's millionaire father, fed up with his son's wild escapades, sends him to stay

1916-12-25
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, w

1917-07-12
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home i

1918-06-16
A lost film. "The Young Fellow"(Fairbanks), has recently been hired as a cub newspaper reporter for

1914-11-15
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Cast

1916-10-01
A silent drama film directed by James Young

1916-12-10
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv

1919-01-26
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking

1914-09-26
Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due

1925-05-04
When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has l

1919-09-21
A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a

1923-11-26
In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns im

1923-11-23
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receip

1925-10-12
Thomas Bates Sr. (Robert McWade) takes his broom manufacturing business very seriously, and his idle

1928-12-23
Texas Ranger Bill Storm is sent to El Paso to ferret out a gang of counterfeiters thought to be work

1915-08-23
William C. DeMille adapted his screenplay for The Woman on the stage play by DeMille's father Henry

1915-09-13
When a young girl is placed under hypnotism, it's discovered that she has a split personality.

1917-07-12
Sato (Sessue Hayakawa) faithfully works for importer James Thornton (James Neill). When the old man

1917-04-26
Jimmie Dexter is on his way to college when his mother discovers that her stocks have stopped paying

1917-12-16
Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy

1916-07-17
The father of San Francisco waif Meg runs an illegal liquor club and supports "English" Hal in schem

1918-01-28
Dick Tavish, a young New Yorker, decides that there is money in cows, and he buys a western ranch. W

1919-02-15
Romance and Arabella is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Walter Edwards and s

1919-12-30
Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1

1921-10-02
Engaged to Harley Jones, fickle Phoebe Mabee flirts with Anson Newton. She and Harley, as a result,

1916-05-07
Ramon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill fis

1924-03-16
Paul Bonard an artist, loses his memory when he receives a blow on the head from one of two apaches

1914-11-19
David Jenison, accused of a crime which he did not commit, escapes his guards and joins a traveling

1919-08-03
The story of the Salvation Army, told through the tale of two men and two women who serve in the Fir

1918-11-24
The children of a a novelist, Nicholas, contract scarlet fever. His wife Anne stays in the house to

1917-09-10
Rustler Pete Sontag kidnaps Merlin Warner after he kills her father. Pete, a drug smuggler who uses

1917-04-05
Sensible Betty Manners is the wife of the frivolous John Manners. John fritters away his time playin

1917-01-15
Henry Sherwin is led to believe by mine expert James Fleming that the mine he invested all his money

1916-06-04
Maida Carrington goes to the city with gambler Jack Morgan but flees after witnessing him stealing m
1916-02-06
When a cowpoke steps into a fight and saves the life of a disreputable gambler, the gambler decides

1917-07-16
Madison Hale, a wealthy American financier, is bidding against Govrian Texler, the financial advisor

1922-06-14
Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.

1918-12-29
When shipping clerk Arthur McArney falls in love with pretty stenographer Elsa Owenson, he finds him
1919-01-01
1926-01-19
Virginia Dean enjoys a yachting trip with her father. She falls in love with the captain of the boat

1919-06-15

1918-07-01
A Scots-Irish lad comes to America hoping to find his fortune. On the sea voyage he meets and falls

1917-10-08
Soon after arriving in the U.S., Romanian immigrant Franz Libelt dies, leaving his daughter Michelna

1917-10-01
The old Atwell home is said to be haunted, and Jeremy Foster, the gardener--who is actually the head