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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 6, 1874
Died
February 7, 1965
Place of Birth
Oakland, California, USA
Also Known As
- Gertrude Lamson
- Nancy O'Neil
Nance O'Neil
0.1 Popularity
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".
Known For
0.0
Lady Lebanon
A Criminal at Large
1939
4.3
Mrs. Finn
False Faces
1932
5.8
Mrs. von Stael (uncredited)
Westward Passage
1932
6.0
Mrs. Varney
Secret Service
1931
5.0
Grand Mere
Their Mad Moment
1931
5.2
Countess Runyi
A Woman of Experience
1931
4.0
Honora 'Nora' Maury
Transgression
1931
5.5
Mrs. Henderson
The Good Bad Girl
1931
6.0
Princess Marya
Resurrection
1931
5.6
Felice Venable
Cimarron
1931
Credits
A Criminal at Large
as Lady Lebanon
1939
0.0
False Faces
as Mrs. Finn
1932
4.3
Westward Passage
as Mrs. von Stael (uncredited)
1932
5.8
Secret Service
as Mrs. Varney
1931
6.0
Their Mad Moment
as Grand Mere
1931
5.0
A Woman of Experience
as Countess Runyi
1931
5.2
Transgression
as Honora 'Nora' Maury
1931
4.0
The Good Bad Girl
as Mrs. Henderson
1931
5.5
Resurrection
as Princess Marya
1931
6.0
Cimarron
as Felice Venable
1931
5.6
The Royal Bed
as Martha, the Queen
1931
4.0
The Eyes of the World
as Myra Willard
1930
0.0
Call of the Flesh
as Mother Superior
1930
4.5
The Florodora Girl
as Mrs. Vibart
1930
5.0
The Lady of Scandal
as Lady Trench
1930
5.1
Ladies of Leisure
as Mrs. Strong
1930
6.1
The Rogue Song
as Princess Alexandra
1930
5.8
His Glorious Night
as Eugenie
1929
0.0
The Fall of the Romanoffs
as Czarina Alexandra
1918
0.0
Hedda Gabler
1917
0.0
Mrs. Balfame
as Mrs. Balfame
1917
0.0
The Seventh Sin
as Alma
1917
0.0
Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
1917
0.0
The Iron Woman
as Sarah Maitland
1916
0.0
The Witch
as Zora Fernandez
1916
0.0
Kreutzer Sonata
as Miriam Friedlander
1915
3.5
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Mercedes
1913
4.0