{{short description|American actor}} {{for|those of a similar name|Richard Neal (disambiguation)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Richard Neill | image = American Actor Richard R, Neill.jpeg | caption = ''Motion Picture News'', 1916 | birth_name = Richard Renchaw Neill, Jr. | birth_date = {{birth date|1875|11|12}} | birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | death_date = {{death date and age|1970|4|8|1875|11|12}} | death_place = Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, United States | years_active = 1910–1961 | occupation = Actor, screenwriter<ref name="MPN16">[https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew14moti_3#page/32/mode/2up "NEILL, Richard R."], featured in "Motion Picture Studio Directory" supplement in ''Motion Picture News'' (New York, N.Y.), October 21, 1916, p. 196. Internet Archive, San Francisco. Retrieved August 31, 2020.</ref> | spouse = Grace Jerome Williams<br>(m. 1915-1970; his death)<ref>"New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940", Richard Renchaw Neill to Grace Jerome Williams, November 12, 1915, Bronx, New York City. New York City Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,940,961.</ref> }} '''Richard Renchaw Neill Jr.''' (November 12, 1875 &ndash; April 8, 1970) was an American actor and screenwriter who worked in both the silent and sound eras.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Richard+Neill%22+silent+film&pg=PA276|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses|first=George A.|last=Katchmer|date=May 20, 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476609058|access-date=March 28, 2019|via=Google Books}}</ref> He performed in more than 200 films from 1910 to 1959, and during the early part of his long screen career, he wrote "several scenarios" for productions.<ref name="MPN16"/> Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he died in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.

[[File:Somewhere in Sonora lobby card.jpg|thumb|right|Lobby card showing Neill (right) in ''Somewhere in Sonora'' (1923)]]

==Partial filmography== {{Div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''The Lighthouse by the Sea'' (1911, Short) - The Lighthouse Keeper's Son * ''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' (1912) * ''The Substitute Stenographer'' (1913, Short) * ''Dolly of the Dailies'' (1914, Serial) - High Officer of the Secret Society [Ch. 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'' (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) * ''Percy'' (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'' (1928) * ''The Bushranger'' (1928) * ''The King of the Kongo'' (1929) * ''Where East is East'' (1929) * ''The Last Frontier'' (1932) * ''Jiggs and Maggie in Court'' (1948) {{Div col end}}

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==External links== {{commons category|Richard Neill}} *{{IMDb name|0624752}}

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