Roy William Neill

1887-1946

Biography: life and films

Roy William Neill was an Irish-American film director. He was born in Ireland, UK on 4th September 1887 and died in London, England on 14th December 1946, aged 59.

His best films as a film director include The Menace (1932), Whirlpool (1934), The Pearl of Death (1944), The Scarlet Claw (1944) and The House of Fear (1945), and whose best work as a screenwriter include Hoots Mon (1940) and The Scarlet Claw (1944).

Roy William Neill directed 106 films (including 2 shorts), scripted 7 films, appeared in 2 films and was cinematographer on 1 film.

His most frequent genres include: drama (57 films), comedy (22), crime-thriller (11), Thriller (11), Horror (8), romance (7), comedy-romance (5), Western (5) and War (3).

Our average rating for Roy William Neill over all films is: 2.4

Filmography

Key: d = director; w = writer; a = actor; c = cinematographer

A Corner in Colleens (1916) [a]

Love Letters (1917) [d]

The Girl, Glory (1917) [d]

The Mother Instinct (1917) [d]

The Price Mark (1917) [d]

Flare-Up Sal (1918) [d]

Free and Equal (1918) [d]

Green Eyes (1918) [d]

Love Me (1918) [d]

The Kaiser's Shadow (1918) [d]

The Mating of Marcella (1918) [d]

Tyrant Fear (1918) [d]

Vive la France! (1918) [d]

Charge It to Me (1919) [d]

Puppy Love (1919) [d]

The Bandbox (1919) [d]

The Career of Katherine Bush (1919) [d]

Trixie from Broadway (1919) [d]

Dangerous Business (1920) [d]

Good References (1920) [d]

Something Different (1920) [d]

The Inner Voice (1920) [d]

The Woman Gives (1920) [d]

Yes or No (1920) [d]

The Conquest of Canaan (1921) [d]

The Idol of the North (1921) [d]

The Iron Trail (1921) [d]

What's Wrong with the Women? (1922) [d,w]

Radio-Mania (1923) [d]

Toilers of the Sea (1923) [d]

Broken Laws (1924) [d]

By Divine Right (1924) [d]

Vanity's Price (1924) [d]

Greater Than a Crown (1925) [d]

Marriage in Transit (1925) [d]

Percy (1925) [d]

The Kiss Barrier (1925) [d]

A Man Four-Square (1926) [d]

Black Paradise (1926) [d]

The City (1926) [d]

The Cowboy and the Countess (1926) [d]

The Fighting Buckaroo (1926) [d]

Marriage (1927) [d]

The Arizona Wildcat (1927) [d]

Lady Raffles (1928) [d]

San Francisco Nights (1928) [d]

The Olympic Hero (1928) [d]

The Viking (1928) [d]

Behind Closed Doors (1929) [d]

Wall Street (1929) [d]

Cock o' the Walk (1930) [d,c]

Just Like Heaven (1930) [d]

Melody Man (1930) [d]

Fifty Fathoms Deep (1931) [d]

The Avenger (1931) [d]

The Good Bad Girl (1931) [d]

American Madness (1932) [d]

That's My Boy (1932) [d]

The Menace (1932) [d]

Above the Clouds (1933) [d]

As the Devil Commands (1933) [d]

Fury of the Jungle (1933) [d]

The Circus Queen Murder (1933) [d]

Black Moon (1934) [d]

Blind Date (1934) [d]

I'll Fix It (1934) [d]

Jealousy (1934) [d]

Mills of the Gods (1934) [d]

The Ninth Guest (1934) [d]

Whirlpool (1934) [d]

Eight Bells (1935) [d]

The Black Room (1935) [d]

The Lone Wolf Returns (1935) [d]

Doctor Syn (1937) [d]

Gypsy (1937) [d]

Double or Quits (1938) [d]

Everything Happens to Me (1938) [d]

Many Tanks Mr. Atkins (1938) [d]

Quiet Please (1938) [d]

Simply Terrific (1938) [d]

Thank Evans (1938) [d]

The Viper (1938) [d]

A Gentleman's Gentleman (1939) [d]

His Brother's Keeper (1940) [d,w]

Hoots Mon (1940) [d,w]

Murder Will Out (1940) [d,w]

The Good Old Days (1940) [d]

Eyes of the Underworld (1942) [d]

Madame Spy (1942) [d]

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) [d]

Rhythm of the Islands (1943) [d]

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) [d]

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943) [d]

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) [d]

Two Tickets to London (1943) [w]

Gypsy Wildcat (1944) [d]

The Pearl of Death (1944) [d]

The Scarlet Claw (1944) [d,w]

The Spider Woman (1944) [d]

Pursuit to Algiers (1945) [d]

The House of Fear (1945) [d]

The Woman in Green (1945) [d]

Black Angel (1946) [d]

Dressed to Kill (1946) [d]

Terror by Night (1946) [d]



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