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".
29 movies
A Criminal at Large
1939·0.0
False Faces
1932·4.4
Westward Passage
1932·6.3
Secret Service
1931·6.7
Their Mad Moment
1931·7.5
A Woman of Experience
1931·6.2
Transgression
1931·4.3
The Good Bad Girl
1931·6.5
Resurrection
1931·6.5
Cimarron
1931·5.6
The Royal Bed
1931·4.3
The Eyes of the World
1930·9.0
Call of the Flesh
1930·5.7
The Florodora Girl
1930·5.5
The Lady of Scandal
1930·5.5
Ladies of Leisure
1930·6.2
The Rogue Song
1930·6.5
His Glorious Night
1929·7.0
The Fall of the Romanoffs
1918·0.0
Hedda Gabler
1917·10.0
Mrs. Balfame
1917·0.0
The Seventh Sin
1917·7.0
Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
1917·10.0
The Iron Woman
1916·0.0
The Toilers
1916·7.0
The Witch
1916·0.0
Princess Romanoff
1915·1.0
Kreutzer Sonata
1915·2.7
The Count of Monte Cristo
1913·4.0