Neal Burns

Acting

Neal Burns

Born 1892-06-26 · Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA

Acting credits

Sob Sister poster
7.0

Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.

Sob Sister

1931

Court Plaster poster
8.0

Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.

Court Plaster

1924

The Gay Deception poster
6.4

A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.

The Gay Deception

1935

No Parking poster
7.5

Neal Burns & Helen Darling showing that family life is chaotic, from taking care of the kid to demolishing houses.

No Parking

1921

In Dutch poster
10.0

Comedy short starring Alice Howell

In Dutch

1918

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle poster
7.0

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

1939

Out for the Coin poster
NR

Try & Helpus are two junk dealers, who have to raise five hundred to pay the rent which the villainous landlord demands. Various times the five hundred is placed in their hands but Always it is removed therefrom by a grouchy policeman.

Out for the Coin

1917

No artwork available
10.0

Young Dick is pursuing pretty young Mary, but so are a lot of other young men. Dick decides to impersonate her butler and uses that position to keep all of Mary's suitors out of the house so he can work on her himself. When his ruse is discovered, he is thrown out of the house. That, however, doesn't stop him. He gets the maid to help him concoct a story about Mary actually being bald and having false teeth, hoping to drive them away. It works, but it doesn't quite have the effect he intended it to.

Call the Wagon

1923

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mister Wife

1926

Early to Bed poster
8.0

Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.

Early to Bed

1936

Loose Change poster
7.0

A young woman decides to vamp her friend's husbands visiting Scottish uncle, but her scheme to trick him into marrying him backfires when her own husband catches on.

Loose Change

1928

No artwork available
9.0

That Doggone Baby (1916) is about a small puppy who is supposed to be a baby.

That Doggone Baby

1916

Mary's Ankle poster
7.0

Three young men, struggling to find their next meal, encounter a young lady with an injured ankle. One of the men is a doctor, who maintains a charade of success with his wealthy uncle, in which the uncle believes the young man to be well-off and married to a (fictitious) wife named Mary Jane Smith. The young doctor falls in love with the girl of the injured ankle and discovers that her name is Mary Jane Smith.

Mary's Ankle

1920

No artwork available
7.5

A short comic film in which a young man has himself admitted to the hospital so as to see more of his girlfriend (who is a nurse there), to the displeasure of the surgeon.

Operating on Cupid

1915

No artwork available
8.0

Neal, while sitting in his room, notices an accident in the street and kindly goes to the man's rescue with his car and takes him to the hospital. The nurse assigned to the case, Billie, makes a great hit with Neal.

Good Night, Nurse

1916

Hot Scotch poster
7.0

A Paramount-Christie comedy from 1928.

Hot Scotch

1948

No artwork available
NR

Hubby's mother in law injects him with the nature of the house-cat.

Inoculating Hubby

1916

Soup to Nuts poster
NR

Henry is expecting the new cook and when Sally, his wife's sister, appears, he immediately shows her the kitchen and orders her to serve food. When Henry's wife learns this she fears to present him as her husband, commands him to masquerade as the butler and calls in a friend to pose as her husband. The "butler" puts soap into the soup with the result that the sister-in-law and the other man become ill. When fire breaks out in the house the sister-in-law is trapped in her room and Bill thinks the terrible heat he feels is the result of fever from his illness. The fire brings on a climax in which the fire department performs and a series of hilarious gags are introduced.

Soup to Nuts

1925

No artwork available
10.0

A Rin Tin Tin comedy spoof.

Run Tin Can

1926

The Face of Marble poster
4.6

The story of Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and death. Aided by assistant David Cochran, Charles conducts experiments that have horrifying side effects. Charles's lonely wife, Elaine, is frightened by his work, and in order to protect her, housekeeper Maria unleashes a torrent of voodoo that wrecks havoc.

The Face of Marble

1946

No artwork available
8.0

Two competitive Scotsmen are neighbours. Trouble starts when a tax inspector announces his imminent arrival, and the Scotsmen have to stash their expensive furniture. As soon as one succeeds in hiding every last stick, the other figures out where to put his. In his neighbour's now empty house!

Are Scotchmen Tight

1929

Hubby's Night Out poster
6.5

Neal hates to give up his evenings with "the boys." even for his wife Betty. She gets a burglar scare and insists on his staying home. However, he wants to go to a masked ball, so he gives her a powder, telling her it will make her sleep soundly. She slips the powder into his favorite decanter, hides his costume, and then retires. In the kitchen, the cook gives a policeman some of the doped whiskey. Neal takes the cop's coat, hat, and stick and starts for the ball. On the way he is called on to restrain a wife-beating husband. He gets a black eye, so decides to go home.

Hubby's Night Out

1917

Getting Gertie's Goat poster
6.3

Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.

Getting Gertie's Goat

1924

Pop Goes the Easel poster
7.3

The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.

Pop Goes the Easel

1935

Behind the camera