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Roy William Neill (4 September 1887 – 14 December 1946) was a film director best known today for directing several of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, made between 1943 and 1946 and released by Universal Studios.
With his father as the captain, Neill was born on a ship off the coast of Ireland named Roland de Gostrie. He began directing silent movies in 1917 and went on to helm 107 films, 40 of them silent. Although most of Neill's films were for the most part low-budget B-movies, he was known for directing films with meticulously lit scenes with carefully layered shadows that would become the style of film noir in the late 1940s. In fact, his last film, Black Angel (1946), is considered a film noir.
He was also credited in some works as R. William Neill, Roy W. Neill, and Roy Neill. Neill lived in the United States for most of his career and was a U.S. citizen. He did go to London from 1935 until 1940 where better opportunities existed for American directors. During this period, British film producer Edward Black hired Neill to direct The Lady Vanishes. However, due to delays in production, Black hired Alfred Hitchcock to direct instead.
Neill died in London, England from a heart attack.
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07 July 1928
An early retelling of Cleopatra’s story.
02 August 1944
In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered.
02 October 1942
Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
06 March 1931
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit.
09 November 1924
Ignoring the advice of her husband, a mother indulges her son's every wish and demand all throughout his childhood.
07 September 1924
Successful actress Vanna Du Maurier ignores her friends' advice and overworks herself toward her goal of having her own theater.
01 January 1939
1840 - Max Miller and a troupe of artistes come to perform at a tavern, which is not licensed for such performances.
01 August 1920
The plot revolves around a down-on-her-luck woman named Mary whose lack of references makes it impossible for her to gain employment.
26 April 1940
An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
17 May 1939
A valet thinks his master is a murder, and tries a little blackmail.
15 June 1934
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
15 September 1918
A couple's suffering finally comes to an end when Jean, having lost his memory through shell shock, sees the cross of shame on Jenevieve's breast, gets his memory back and the two pledge their troth.
29 March 1920
A 1920 film directed by Roy William Neill.
29 January 1932
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
31 January 1926
A carefree range devil rescues visiting Countess Justina of Belgravia (Helena D'Algy) from a car wreck.
15 December 1934
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother.
27 March 1921
Dance-hall girl Colette Brissac, brought up in the Canadian Northwest, refuses the protection of New Yorker Lucky Folsom, who later marries Gloria Waldron, an ambitious woman actually in love with engineer Martin Bates.
01 July 1925
A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.
12 March 1943
Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr.
30 May 1926
In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond necklace.
26 August 1918
Southerner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings her down to his home.
02 March 1919
Young Gloria O'Connell falls in love with her neighbor, James Oliver. She is sent to a small town to stay with her three spinster aunts, while James becomes a newspaper reporter and arranges to write a story on the town and its large old-maid population.
01 December 1929
A very topical early talkie from low-budget company Columbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer Thomas H.
25 August 1937
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
01 December 1938
A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election.
01 September 1933
Slowly dying of a terminal illness, wealthy invalid John Duncan wants his aide Dr. Graham to end his suffering.
15 June 1945
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed.
16 October 1938
An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
28 June 1920
Two wives, one rich, one poor, each find themselves tempted by romantic seducers, and each faces the dilemma of remaining true to the husband who neglects her or of falling into the arms of another.
24 May 1946
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes.
10 April 1933
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead.
02 August 1946
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
10 November 1934
A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs.
23 October 1933
Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita.
21 October 1930
Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usurps his corner and a power struggle ensues between Tobey and the circus's beautiful ballet star, Mimi.
14 June 1943
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
13 November 1932
Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.
04 April 1926
There's gold in them thar hills and Larry Crawford must fight the unscrupulous Bradley and his men to keep it safe.
25 December 1942
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.
16 March 1945
The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member.
10 December 1943
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.
17 September 1943
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services.
24 March 1943
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington.
13 February 1927
Marjorie Pope, who is engaged to Magnet, a wealthy suitor whom she does not love, elopes with Trafford, an inventor, after his airplane crashes on the grounds of her parents' rural home.
01 August 1944
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes.
01 March 1938
Crime comedy sequel to The Vulture (1937). Amateur sleuth, Cedric Gull, takes on another case.
14 November 1926
The City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Roy William Neill and is based on Clyde Fitch's 1909 Broadway play.
29 October 1921
Alaskan railroad magnate Curtis Gordon hires engineer Dan Appleton to design a railroad route up the Salmon River to the rich gold country.
18 May 1944
When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster.
16 April 1943
Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones) posing as a native chief.
01 January 1938
Two young men start a business selling a homemade hangover recipe.
01 February 1946
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
27 January 1940
“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.
15 July 1935
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron.
10 April 1935
A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
13 August 1939
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
15 July 1928
Interrupted during a robbery, thief Lady Raffles hides in an adjacent mansion and is mistaken for a maid during a party thrown by Warren Blake, who plans to present his mother with a diamond necklace.
26 October 1945
After the King of Rovenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.
09 May 1926
A Man Four-Square is a screen version of William McLeod Raine's popular tale of a rancher who finds himself falsely accused of murder while attempting to help a friend in need.
