Barry O'Neil

American film director and screenwriter

film director
screenwriter

Barry O'Neil (1865 – 1918) was a film director and writer. His real name was Thomas J. McCarthy.^[1] He directed several Thanhouser films including the production company's first two-reeler,^[2] Romeo and Juliet.^[3] He went on to work for Lubin and then World Film Corporation.^[2]

He was born in New York City.^[4]

O'Neil married actress Nellie Walters. In 1913 O'Neil was elected to The Lambs as a non-resident member.^[5] He died of apoplexy.

In 1910 and 1911 he filmed adaptations of a couple William Shakespeare plays.^[6] In 1915 he filmed a version of McTeague in Death Valley^[7] released as Life's Whirlpool.^[8] William E. Hamilton was an assistant director to O'Neil.^[9]

Filmography

Director

The Actor's Children (1910)
The Mad Hermit (1910)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Writing on the Wall (1910)
The Girl of the Northern Woods (1910)
The Winter's Tale (1910)^[10]
St. Elmo (1910)
The Actor's Children (1910)
Romeo and Juliet (1911)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1911)
For the Love of a Girl (1912)
When the Earth Trembled (1913)
The Third Degree (1913)
The Wolf (1914)

The Evangelist (1916), adapted from the 1907 play^[11]
Bought (1915)
The Great Ruby (1915)
McTeague, also known as Life's Whirlpool (1916)
A Woman's Way (1916)
Husband and Wife (1916)
The Evangelist (1916)
The Unpardonable Sin
The Weakness of Man
The Revolt
Hidden Scar^[2]

Writer

The Third Degree (1913)
The Lion and the Mouse (1914)

McTeague, also known as Life's Whirlpool (1916)

References

^ "O'NEIL, Barry". www.thanhouser.org.
^ ^a ^b ^c https://www.thanhouser.org/TCOCD/Narrative_files/c2s9.htm/ ^{[dead link]}
^ Q. David Bowers (1995). "Volume 1: Narrative History -Chapter 3 – 1910: Film Production Begins". Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
^ Vazzana, Eugene Michael (October 12, 2001). Silent Film Necrology. McFarland. ISBN 9780786410590 – via Google Books.
^ "O'Neil, Barry | the Lambs, Inc". November 6, 2015.
^ Cochran, Peter (October 16, 2014). Small-Screen Shakespeare. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443869690 – via Google Books.
^ Koszarski, Richard (March 2, 2005). Fort Lee: The Film Town (1904-2004). Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780861969425 – via Google Books.
^ Koszarski, Richard (May 4, 1994). An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520085350 – via Google Books.
^ "The Moving Picture World". World Photographic Publishing Company. October 12, 1916 – via Google Books.
^ Burnett, Mark Thornton (October 12, 2011). Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts. ISBN 9780748649341.
^ Goble, Alan (September 8, 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943.