# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-william-neill
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:59:57.602Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-william-neill"
name: "Roy William Neill"
slug: "roy-william-neill"
description: "Roy William Neill was an Irish-born American film director best known for producing and directing almost all of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, made between 1942 and 1946 and released by Universal Pictures. He also directed Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), an entry in the popular Universal Monsters franchise."
tagline: "Irish-American film director (1887–1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roy-William-Neill-1921.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1887-09-04"
deathDate: "1946-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump