title: Ella O'Neill (screenwriter)
text: # Ella O'Neill (screenwriter)
  
  Ella O'Neill was an American screenwriter who penned B movies and serials at Universal in the 1930s. She worked primarily in the action, Western, and detective genres. She had been a practicing attorney in Chicago before she became a serial writer, and she was noted as a language expert.
  
  ## Selected filmography
  
  * Flaming Frontiers (1938)
  * The Phantom Rider (1936)
  * Flash Gordon (1936)
  * The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936)
  * Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery (1935)
  * The Roaring West (1935)
  * Rustlers of Red Dog (1935)
  * Tailspin Tommy (1934)
  * The Red Rider (1934)
  * The Vanishing Shadow (1934)
  * Pirate Treasure (1934)
  * The Perils of Pauline (1933)
  * Gordon of Ghost City (1933)
  * The Phantom of the Air (1933)
  * The Rustler's Roundup (1933)
  * Clancy of the Mounted (1933)
  * The Lost Special (1932)
  * Jungle Mystery (1932)
  * Heroes of the West (1932)
  * The Airmail Mystery (1932)
  * Detective Lloyd (1932)
  * Battling with Buffalo Bill (1931)
  * Danger Island (1931)
  * Heroes of the Flames (1931)
  * Finger Prints (1931)
  