Tom Neal

Tom Neal

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Birthday: 
28 January 1914, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Birth Name: 
Thomas Neal
Tom Neal is best remembered for his off-screen exploits, which involved scandal, mayhem and a charge of murder. Before his 1938 screen debut in MGM's Out West with the Hardys (1938), Neal had been a member of the boxing team at Northwestern University, had debuted on the Broadway stage in 1935 and had received a law degree from Harvard, also i... Show more »
Tom Neal is best remembered for his off-screen exploits, which involved scandal, mayhem and a charge of murder. Before his 1938 screen debut in MGM's Out West with the Hardys (1938), Neal had been a member of the boxing team at Northwestern University, had debuted on the Broadway stage in 1935 and had received a law degree from Harvard, also in 1938. Throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s, he appeared mostly as tough guys in Hollywood low-budgeters. In 1951, in a dispute over the on-again / off-again affections and the wavering allegiance of notorious actress / "party girl" Barbara Payton, he mixed it up with Payton's paramour, the aristocratic actor Franchot Tone. The former college boxer Neal inflicted upon Tone a smashed cheekbone, a broken nose and a brain concussion. Hollywood essentially blackballed Neal thereafter, but he would come to find a livelihood in gardening and landscaping. He was brought to trial in 1965 for the murder of his wife Gale, who had been shot to death with a .45-caliber bullet to the back of her head. Prosecutors sought the death penalty for Neal, which at the time meant a trip to the cyanide-gas chamber. The trial jury, however, convicted him only of "involuntary manslaughter", for which he was sentenced to 10 years in jail.On 7 December 1971 he was released on parole, having served exactly six years to the day. Eight months later, Tom Neal was dead of heart failure. Show less «

Tom Neal's FILMOGRAPHY

Los Angeles Plays Itself

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Tales of Wells Fargo - Season 6

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Tales of Wells Fargo - Season 5

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Tales of Wells Fargo - Season 4

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Tales of Wells Fargo - Season 3

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Tales of Wells Fargo - Season 1

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Tales of Wells Fargo - Season 2

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Detour (1945)

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Air Force

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Pride of the Yankees

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Flying Tigers

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Another Thin Man

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Tom Neal'S roles

Johnny Reno
Johnny Reno