Nance O'Neil

Born: 1874-10-06, Oakland, California, USA

Died: 1965-02-07

Biography

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".

Filmography

• Westward Passage (1932)
• The Toilers (1916)
• Princess Romanoff (1915)
• Hedda Gabler (1917)
• Ladies of Leisure (1930)
• His Glorious Night (1929)
• The Eyes of the World (1930)
• The Good Bad Girl (1931)
• Seven Deadly Sins: Greed (1917)
• The Royal Bed (1931)
• The Florodora Girl (1930)
• The Fall of the Romanoffs (1918)
• A Woman of Experience (1931)
• Call of the Flesh (1930)
• False Faces (1932)
• The Lady of Scandal (1930)
• Kreutzer Sonata (1915)
• Their Mad Moment (1931)
• A Criminal at Large (1939)
• The Rogue Song (1930)
• The Iron Woman (1916)
• Mrs. Balfame (1917)