Biography
From Wikipedia Thomas Carroll Neal Jr. (January 28, 1914 – August 7, 1972) was an American actor and boxer best known for appearing in the critically lauded film Detour (1945), for having a tryst with actress Barbara Payton, and for later committing manslaughter.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
as Al Roberts in Detour (archive footage)
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen ...
The Great Jesse James Raid
1953
as Arch Clements
The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.
All That I Have
1951
as Bert Grayson
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to ...
Let's Go Navy!
1951
as Joe
The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
Varieties on Parade
1951
as Himself
Following a live orchestra opening, emcee Eddie Garr greets the audience and tells them about his trip to Los Angeles, where out-of-work actors are al...
G.I. Jane
1951
as Tim Rawlings
A civilian, ordered to report to his draft board, slips off into a dream about the army life ahead of him. He is assigned to a remote desert post wher...
Venture of Faith
1951
Shortly after WWII, students at Valparaiso University in Indiana come together to raise funds and construct a new building on campus, so the school ca...
Danger Zone
1951
as Edgar Spadely
A San Francisco man is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party.
Stop That Cab
1951
as Lefty
The trials and tribulations of a cab driver working the night shift, who must put with an assortment of crazies, hardcases and sob stories during work...
Navy Bound
1951
as Joe Morelli
A sailor who is a champion boxer in the Navy is forced to leave the service because his family's business, a tuna fishing operation, is in financial t...
Fingerprints Don't Lie
1951
as Prosecuting Attorney
A fingerprint expert figures out who killed the mayor.
King of the Bullwhip
1950
as Benson
A whip-cracking federal marshal goes under cover as a masked bandit to ferret out a gold-bullion thief.
Call of the Klondike
1950
as Tom Mallory
A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. A Canadian Mountie sets out to bring them to justice.
The Du Pont Story
1950
as Alfred V. du Pont
A straight-line historical account of the Du Pont chemical manufacturing company and its vital role in the growth of the USA.
Train To Tombstone
1950
as Dr. Willoughby
One of the passengers on a train to Tombstone decides to rob it of the $250,000 it is carrying.
I Shot Billy the Kid
1950
as Charley Bowdry
Although the Lincoln County War has come to a conclusion, Billy the Kid turns his back on a gubernatorial pardon and continues his lawless career.
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
1950
as Gordon Rogers
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
The Daltons' Women
1950
as Mayor
The Dalton gang has moved west taking new identities and Marshals Lash and Fuzzy are after them. They receive help from Pinkerton agent Joan Talbot as...
Radar Secret Service
1950
as Mickey Moran
A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.
Red Desert
1949
as John Williams
A Government agent is sent to track an outlaw who has stolen gold boulion. The chase leads into a desolate desert region where the agent is forced to ...
Apache Chief
1949
as Lieutenant Brown
When his tribesmen begin killing off white settlers, Young Eagle is opposed to the carnage. In order to assure a lasting peace, however, the chief mus...
Amazon Quest
1949
as Thomas Dekker Jr.
Thomas Dekker is a diamond cutter attempting to reclaim his right to a portion of a rubber empire in the early part of the twentieth century. Tom trav...
Bruce Gentry
1949
as Bruce Gentry
Famed aviator Bruce Gentry is working with scientist Andrew Benson, setting out to uncover the origin of a deadly secret weapon---an electronically co...
Beyond Glory
1948
as Capt. Henry Jason Daniels
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls f...
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
1947
as Russ Ashton
The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal is hired to keep an eye on the child of married cou...
The Hat Box Mystery
1947
as Russ Ashton
Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is a...
My Dog Shep
1946
as James Herrick
An orphan boy on his way to live with his uncle picks up a stray dog, and the two become fast friends. However, the uncle doesn't want the dog, and wh...
The Brute Man
1946
as Clifford Scott
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
Blonde Alibi
1946
as Rick Lavery
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a chec...
Detour
1945
as Al Roberts
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
Club Havana
1945
as Bill Porter
A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.
First Yank into Tokyo
1945
as Major Steve Ross
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.
Crime, Inc.
1945
as Jim Riley
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his info...
Thoroughbreds
1944
as Rusty Curtis
Sgt. Rusty Curtis of the U.S. Cavalry is unhappy about the Army's plan to replace horses with tanks so, after a medical discharge, he tries to buy his...
The Unwritten Code
1944
as Sgt. Terry Hunter
A Nazi spy sneaks into the U.S., hoping to release hundreds of German prisoners. He fails, but not until plenty of bullets have been spent.
Two-Man Submarine
1944
as Jerry Evans
Medical researchers Jerry Evans and Walt Hedges are assigned by a pharmaceutical company to work at a secret laboratory on a remote South Pacific Isla...
The Racket Man
1944
as Matt Benson
A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by p...
Klondike Kate
1943
as Jefferson Braddock
A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.
There's Something About a Soldier
1943
as Wally Williams
Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
Behind the Rising Sun
1943
as Taro Seki
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943
as Charlie Edmonds
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
She Has What It Takes
1943
as Roger Rutledge
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoo...
The Rear Gunner
1943
as Instructor Sargeant
Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown shoo...
No Time for Love
1943
as Sandhog (uncredited)
An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.
Air Force
1943
as Marine (uncredited)
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of t...
China Girl
1942
as Captain Haynes
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes fro...
Bowery at Midnight
1942
as Frankie Mills
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Pol...
Flying Tigers
1942
as Reardon
Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into Wor...
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
as Fraternity Boy (uncredited)
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
as Cadet (uncredited)
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress...
One Thrilling Night
1942
as Frankie Saxton
A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver un...
The Miracle Kid
1941
as Jimmy Conley
A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
as Don Lewis
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape ...
Jungle Girl
1941
as Jack Stanton
Dr. John Meredith has been driven from civilization by the criminal activities of his twin brother Bradley Meredith. With his infant daughter, he sett...
Under Age
1941
as Rocky Stone
Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled...
Wings of Steel
1941
A football hero joins the Army Air Corps.
Flight Command
1940
as Hell Cat
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression ...
Rodeo Dough
1940
as Tom Neal - Announcer at Rodeo
After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star-filled rodeo.
Sky Murder
1940
as Steve - Pilot
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US en...
The Courageous Dr. Christian
1940
as Dave Williams
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
Jack Pot
1940
as Frank Watson
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking.
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1939
as Johnny Crusper
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their...
Another Thin Man
1939
as Freddie Coleman
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
They All Come Out
1939
as Joe Z. Cameron
A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime...
Stronger Than Desire
1939
as Reporter (uncredited)
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Help Wanted
1939
as Joe Daniels
A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket
6,000 Enemies
1939
as Ransom
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
Prophet Without Honor
1939
as Matthew Fontaine Maury (uncredited)
This short film portrays the story of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), an American Naval officer who developed the first maps that charted the ocea...
Within the Law
1939
as Richard Gilder
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful wa...
Money to Loan
1939
as Ambulance Intern
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordin...
Honolulu
1939
as Ambulance Intern (uncredited)
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
Four Girls in White
1939
as Dr. Phillips
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
1939
as Hank Hogan
An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.
The Great Heart
1938
as Father Damien (uncredited)
This short film tells the true story of the heroic sacrifice of Father Damien, the Belgian priest who suffered a living death in order to bring hope a...
Out West with the Hardys
1938
as Aldrich Brown
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.