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Nance O'Neil

Actress / Film Actress / Stage Actress | * 10/08/1874 († 90, 02/07/1965) | Oakland, California (United States of America (USA))
Gertrude Lamson (October 8, 1874 – February 7, 1965), known professionally as Nance O'Neil or Nancy O'Neil, was an American stage and film actress who performed in plays in various theaters around the world but worked predominantly in the United States between the 1890s and 1930s. At the height of her career, she was promoted on theater bills and in period trade publications and newspapers as the "American Bernhardt". ()

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".

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | History

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Hedda Gabler

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1917
 
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It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she wil ...

A Woman of Experience

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1931 | 2.9/5 | 1h 14min
Romance / Love, Drama
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Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the sensational A Fool There Was (1914). ...

Kreutzer Sonata

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1915 | 0.5/5 | 50min
Drama, Romance / Love
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Movies with Nance O'Neil as Actress(26)

as Lady Lebanon1939 A Criminal at Large
as Mrs. von Stael (uncredited)1932 Westward Passage
as Mrs. Finn1932 False Faces
as Martha, the Queen1931 The Royal Bed
as Honora 'Nora' Maury1931 Transgression
as Countess Runyi1931 A Woman of Experience
as Felice Venable1931 Cimarron
as Princess Marya1931 Resurrection
as Mrs. Varney1931 Secret Service
as Mrs. Henderson1931 The Good Bad Girl
as Grand Mere1931 Their Mad Moment
as Lady Trench1930 The Lady of Scandal
as Princess Alexandra1930 The Rogue Song
as Mrs. Vibart1930 The Florodora Girl
as Myra Willard1930 The Eyes of the World
as Mother Superior1930 Call of the Flesh
as Mrs. Strong1930 Ladies of Leisure
as Eugenie1929 His Glorious Night
as Czarina Alexandra1918 The Fall of the Romanoffs
1917 The Seventh Sin
1917 Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
as Mrs. Balfame1917 Mrs. Balfame
1917 Hedda Gabler
1916 The Iron Woman
as Miriam Friedlander1915 Kreutzer Sonata
as Mercedes1913 The Count of Monte Cristo

Full Name: Nance Lamson
Born: Thursday, 10/08 1874 (October) in Oakland, California (United States of America (USA))
Died: Sunday, 02/07 1965 (February) in Lillian Booth Actors Home (aged: 90)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Spouses (current/former): Alfred Hickman
Other names for Nance O'Neil (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Nancy O'Neil,"
"Gertrude Lamson"
Nance O'Neil frequently works together with these people:
Lowell Sherman (6x, Actor)
Herbert Brenon (6x, Crew)
Cedric Gibbons (5x, Crew)
Max Rée (5x, Crew)
Alfred Hickman (5x, Actor)
Max Steiner (5x, Crew)
John Farrow (4x, Crew)
William LeBaron (4x, Crew)
Zasu Pitts (3x, Actress)
Lionel Barrymore (3x, Actor)
Jo Swerling (3x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:486938, Added: 10/04/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024