Neal Burns

Neal Burns

Born: June 26, 1892
Died: October 3, 1969
in Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Neal Burns...

The Face of Marble
Title: The Face of Marble
Character: Jeff, fingerprint expert
Released: January 19, 1946
Type: Movie
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.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Title: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
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.
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Early to Bed
Title: Early to Bed
Character: Salesman
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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The Gay Deception
Title: The Gay Deception
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1935
Type: Movie
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.
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Pop Goes the Easel
Title: Pop Goes the Easel
Character: Art Student (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
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.
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Sob Sister
Title: Sob Sister
Character: Freddie
Released: October 25, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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Are Scotchmen Tight
Title: Are Scotchmen Tight
Released: March 2, 1929
Type: Movie
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!
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Loose Change
Title: Loose Change
Character: Sandy's Nephew
Released: October 6, 1928
Type: Movie
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.
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Papa's Pest
Title: Papa's Pest
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
A husband wants to slip out of the house to go to a poker game, but his wife catches him, and he is forced to stay at home and mind her sister's baby. Neal goes to the poker game and takes the baby with him, but absentmindedly leaves him there when he goes home.
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Run Tin Can
Title: Run Tin Can
Character: Neal
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A Rin Tin Tin comedy spoof.
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Court Plaster
Title: Court Plaster
Character: Nullan Voyd
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
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Getting Gertie's Goat
Title: Getting Gertie's Goat
Released: March 9, 1924
Type: Movie
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.
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Busy Buddies
Title: Busy Buddies
Released: January 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Three hungry pals go to great lengths to feed their appetite.
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Call the Wagon
Title: Call the Wagon
Character: Dick
Released: December 30, 1923
Type: Movie
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.
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Fool Proof
Title: Fool Proof
Character: Jack
Released: November 4, 1923
Type: Movie
A 1924 Neal Burns comedy. To show his son that there’s more to life than work, a rich man pretends he is getting married to a chorus girl.
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No Parking
Title: No Parking
Character: The Husband
Released: December 25, 1921
Type: Movie
Neal Burns & Helen Darling showing that family life is chaotic, from taking care of the kid to demolishing houses.
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In Dutch
Title: In Dutch
Released: June 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Comedy short starring Alice Howell
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His Hidden Purpose
Title: His Hidden Purpose
Character: The Girl's Sweetheart
Released: January 27, 1918
Type: Movie
The movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her Sweetheart.” But her dad wants her to marry someone else (Chester Conklin) and takes her away on vacation to get her away from Her Sweetheart. He follows them, disguised as a widow. There is a genuinely funny scene where Marie is disguised as a man to go meet her boyfriend disguised as a widow, and slapstick happens which results in Chester being found in his underpants with the widow in a barn.
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Hubby's Night Out
Title: Hubby's Night Out
Character: Hubby
Released: February 20, 1917
Type: Movie
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.
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That Doggone Baby
Title: That Doggone Baby
Character: Hubby Parker
Released: October 20, 1916
Type: Movie
That Doggone Baby (1916) is about a small puppy who is supposed to be a baby.
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The Making Over of Mother
Title: The Making Over of Mother
Character: Mr. Newlywed
Released: October 15, 1916
Type: Movie
Neal and Betty are newlywed when her father dies. Betty goes to visit her mother and decides to take her to live with them. Neal, who has never met her, remonstrated furiously but in vain.
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Good Night, Nurse
Title: Good Night, Nurse
Character: J. Morris Nutt
Released: June 2, 1916
Type: Movie
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.
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Operating on Cupid
Title: Operating on Cupid
Character: Dr. Cuttem
Released: November 29, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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Behind the Screen
Title: Behind the Screen
Character: Self
Released: July 23, 1915
Type: Movie
A look behind the scenes at Universal Studios in 1915.