Actor
Nance O'Neil
October 6, 1874 · Oakland, California, USA
Nance O'Neil, born Gertrude Lamson, was an American stage and screen actress. When she decided to become an actress, her religious father, George Lamson, an auctioneer, denounced his daughter in church for going on the stage and asked the congregation to pray for her. O'Neil's first performance in a professional production was in the role of a nun in Sarah at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco on October 16, 1893. At the height of her career, she was promoted on theatre bills and in period trade publications and newspapers as the "American Sarah Bernhardt".
Often works with
Lowell Sherman
3 titles together
Ladies of Leisure, The Royal Bed, False Faces
Florence Lake
3 titles together
Westward Passage, The Rogue Song, Secret Service
John St. Polis
3 titles together
Transgression, False Faces, Their Mad Moment
Richard Dix
2 titles together
Cimarron, Secret Service
Eugene Jackson
2 titles together
Cimarron, Secret Service
Marie Prevost
2 titles together
Ladies of Leisure, The Good Bad Girl
Full filmography · 28
A Criminal at Large
as Lady Lebanon
1939
False Faces
as Mrs. Finn
1932
Westward Passage
as Mrs. von Stael (uncredited)
1932
Secret Service
as Mrs. Varney
1931
Their Mad Moment
as Grand Mere
1931
Transgression
as Honora 'Nora' Maury
1931
The Good Bad Girl
as Mrs. Henderson
1931
Resurrection
as Princess Marya
1931
Cimarron
as Felice Venable
19315.5
The Royal Bed
as Martha, the Queen
1931
The Eyes of the World
as Myra Willard
1930
Call of the Flesh
as Mother Superior
1930