
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".

Westward Passage
MOVIE • 1932

Cimarron
MOVIE • 1931

The Eyes of the World
MOVIE • 1930

Ladies of Leisure
MOVIE • 1930

The Florodora Girl
MOVIE • 1930

His Glorious Night
MOVIE • 1929

The Good Bad Girl
MOVIE • 1931

Hedda Gabler
MOVIE • 1917

Resurrection
MOVIE • 1931

The Rogue Song
MOVIE • 1930

Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
MOVIE • 1917

False Faces
MOVIE • 1932

The Count of Monte Cristo
MOVIE • 1913

The Lady of Scandal
MOVIE • 1930

The Fall of the Romanoffs
MOVIE • 1918

Their Mad Moment
MOVIE • 1931

Princess Romanoff
MOVIE • 1915

A Woman of Experience
MOVIE • 1931