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]
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 Scarlet Claw (1944) [d,w]
Black Angel (1946) [d]
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