James Neill
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.
Born: September 29, 1860
Place of Birth: Savannah, Georgia, USA
Known For
Don't Change Your Husband
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 two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
The Ten Commandments
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 calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.
The Whispering Chorus
John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, asks him to keep his identity secret since his wife is now married to the Governor and expecting a child.
The King of Kings
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 Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
The Little American
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 firsthand.
Shooting Straight
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
The Cheat
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.
The Idle Rich
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 nephew Henry keeps reminding us), is happy for Joan, but reluctant to take charity from Will. He moves in with them, and they keep resisting, until one day he takes drastic action.
Joan the Woman
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
Saturday Night
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.
Filmography
as Reverend Powell
as Vance Calhoun
as Mr. Phil Thayer
as Lefty Waterman
as Pa Robinson
as James - Brother of John
as Doctor Cobb
as William Linden
as Veraign
as Sheik Ussan
as Aaron - Brother of Moses: Prologue
as Valet to Elliott
as Miller
as Butler
as John Latham
as Honorable Cyrus Blagdon
as Fernald
as Henry Strom
as Tompkins - the Butler
as Mr. Mabee
as Edward Small
as Senor Urique
as Cara
as Major Buford
as Nobody
as Purdon
as Booth's Secretary
as Judge Burroughs
as Parker Middleton
as Dr. Henry
as Butler
as Ben Weatherstaff
as Elsa's Father
as Mr. Lane
as Peter Gregory
as Dr. Nunez
as Detective
as Judge Hollis
as A Kindly Bachelor
as Channing
as Red
as Sommerville
as Simpson
as Franz Libelt
as Jeremy Foster
as Warner, Mae's Father
as The cardinal
as Senator John Moore
as James Thornton
as Squire Padgate
as Auto Salesman
as A Priest
as John Havens
as Doctor Wallace
as Count Ramirez
as Henry Sherwin
as Laxart
as Mr. Brownlow
as John Du Val
as James Peabody
as Benjamin Merton
as Goodwin
as The Priest
as Mr. Webster
as George Yeardley
as A Broker
as Jones
as Dr. Emerson
as The Honorable Mark Robertson
as General Warren
as Count Von Herbeck
as John Randall
as Richard Jenison
as Padre Antonio
as Jackson Ives
as Sam Rowland
as The King
as The Symphony Conductor
as Uncle Billy Austin