Nance O'Neil
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".

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Roles

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A Criminal at Large (1939)
Lady Lebanon
False Faces (1932)
Mrs. Finn
Westward Passage (1932)
Mrs. von Stael (uncredited)
Secret Service (1931)
Mrs. Varney
Their Mad Moment (1931)
Grand Mere
A Woman of Experience (1931)
Countess Runyi
Transgression (1931)
Honora 'Nora' Maury
The Good Bad Girl (1931)
Mrs. Henderson
Resurrection (1931)
Princess Marya
Cimarron (1931)
Felice Venable
The Royal Bed (1931)
Martha, the Queen
The Eyes of the World (1930)
Myra Willard
Call of the Flesh (1930)
Mother Superior
The Florodora Girl (1930)
Mrs. Vibart
The Lady of Scandal (1930)
Lady Trench
Ladies of Leisure (1930)
Mrs. Strong
The Rogue Song (1930)
Princess Alexandra
His Glorious Night (1929)
Eugenie
The Fall of the Romanoffs (1918)
Czarina Alexandra
Hedda Gabler (1917)
Mrs. Balfame (1917)
Mrs. Balfame
The Seventh Sin (1917)
Alma
Seven Deadly Sins: Greed (1917)
The Iron Woman (1916)
Sarah Maitland
The Witch (1916)
Zora Fernandez
Kreutzer Sonata (1915)
Miriam Friedlander
The Count of Monte Cristo (1913)
Mercedes

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