Richard Renchaw Neill Jr. (November 12, 1875 – April 8, 1970) was an American actor and screenwriter who worked in both the silent and

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eras. He performed in more than 200 films between 1910 and 1959, and during the early part of his long screen career, he wrote "several scenarios" for productions. Born in

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, he died in California, in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Somewhere in Sonora lobby card

Partial filmography

* '' The Lighthouse by the Sea'' (1911, Short) - The Lighthouse Keeper's Son * ''

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'' (1912) * '' The Substitute Stenographer'' (1913, Short) * '' Dolly of the Dailies'' (1914, Serial) - High Officer of the Secret Society h. 5* ''Fantasma'' (1914) - The Princess' Father * ''Colonel Carter of Cartersville'' (1915) - Robert Gill * ''The Broken Law'' (1915) - Gaspar * ''The Labyrinth'' (1915) - Rev. Herbert Fenton * ''The Man Who Found Himself'' (1915) - Himself, Cameo Appearance (uncredited) * '' The Fool's Revenge'' (1916) - Randall * '' A Modern Thelma'' (1916) * ''God's Half Acre'' (1916) - Perry Westley * ''

A Wall Street Tragedy ''A Wall Street Tragedy'' is a lost 1916 silent film drama directed by Lawrence Marston and starring Nat C. Goodwin. It was released by the Mutual Film Company.(Wayback) Cast *Nat C. Goodwin - Norton * Richard Neill - Ranson *Mabel Wright - Mrs ...

'' (1916) - Ranson * '' The Ragged Princess'' (1916) - Thomas Deigan * ''The Battle of Life'' (1916) - O'Leary * '' A Child of the Wild'' (1917) * '' Love's Law'' (1917) * '' The Co-Respondent'' (1917) * '' The Woman in White'' (1917) * '' Her Second Husband'' (1917) * '' The Road to France'' (1918) * '' His Wife's Friend'' (1919) * '' The Plunger'' (1920) * '' Go Get 'Em Hutch'' (1922) * '' A Clouded Name'' (1923) * '' Sinner or Saint'' (1923) * '' Heritage of the Desert'' (1924) * '' The Fighting Coward'' (1924) * '' Wanderer of the Wasteland'' (1924) * ''

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'' (1925) * '' Tumbleweeds'' (1925) * '' Born to the West'' (1926) * '' Satan Town'' (1926) * '' The Trunk Mystery'' (1926) * '' Galloping Thunder'' (1927) * '' The Fightin' Comeback'' (1927) * '' The Desert of the Lost'' (1927) * '' Bulldog Pluck'' (1927) * '' Somewhere in Sonora'' (1927) * '' The Man Without a Face'' (1928) * '' Beyond the Sierras'' (1928) * ''

The Law's Lash ''The Law's Lash'' is a 1928 American silent action film directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Robert Ellis, Mary Mayberry and LeRoy Mason.Munden p.22 It was designed as a vehicle for Klondike the Dog, an imitator of Rin Tin Tin. Cast * K ...

'' (1928) * '' The Bushranger'' (1928) * ''

The King of the Kongo ''The King of the Kongo'' (1929) is a Mascot film serial, and was the first serial to have sound,Where East is East ''Where East Is East'' is a 1929 American silent drama film starring Lon Chaney as an animal trapper in Laos. The motion picture is Chaney's penultimate silent film and the last of his collaborations with director Tod Browning. While this film ...

'' (1929) * '' The Last Frontier'' (1932) * '' Jiggs and Maggie in Court'' (1948)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Neill, Richard 1875 births 1970 deaths American male film actors American male silent film actors 20th-century American male actors Male actors from Philadelphia