Evelyn Nelson

Evelyn Nelson

Born: November 13, 1899
Died: June 16, 1923
in Chloride, Arizona, USA
Doris Evelyn Nelson was an American silent film actress and dancer. When she was a child her family moved to Los Angeles, California where she started dancing in the Bull's Eye Follies. Her brief film career began with a 1920 comedy short called "Springtime" where she played against Oliver Hardy. She appears in 20 film productions. A passionate affair with married actor Wallace Reid tragically ended in January 1923 when he died of a drug overdose. On June 16, 1923 Evelyn Nelson committed suicide by turning on the gas in her apartment.

Movies for Evelyn Nelson...

Desert Rider
Title: Desert Rider
Character: Carolyn Grey
Released: June 10, 1923
Type: Movie
Kincade shoots Baird and takes the map to his gold mine. Sutherland finds the dying Baird who tells him the mine's location. Kincade, having lost the map, now goes after the gold Sutherland has taken out of the mine.
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The Forbidden Trail
Title: The Forbidden Trail
Character: Isobel Lorraine
Released: February 1, 1923
Type: Movie
When Red Hawk Dugan and his men attack a small wagon train, Colonel Merriwell is killed and the young girl Isobel taken and raised thinking Dugan is her father. Fifteen years later the Colonel's son Jack arrives looking for Dugan whom he learned killed his father. As he hunts for Dugan he meets and falls in love with Isobel only to then learn Dugan is her father.
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The Double O
Title: The Double O
Character: Frances Powell
Released: November 29, 1921
Type: Movie
Happy Hanes, a ranch hand, comes between a crooked foreman and the new ranch owner Frances Powell. The foreman and his "half-breed" accomplice Cholo kidnap Frances.
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Hills of Hate
Title: Hills of Hate
Character: Ann La Vere
Released: July 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A Western movie starring Jack Hoxie and Evelyn Nelson.
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Cyclone Bliss
Title: Cyclone Bliss
Released: January 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Quiet and fairminded Jack Bliss traces his missing father to Hell's Hole, where he meets Helen Turner and Jack Hall, the leader of an outlaw gang rendezvousing at Hell's Hole. Hall kills Helen's father but fails in his attempts to get rid of Bliss and Helen, and Bliss, singlehanded, takes on the gang while the neighboring ranchers, settlers, and herders unite to clean out the outlaws.
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His Jonah Day
Title: His Jonah Day
Character: The Girl
Released: November 26, 1920
Type: Movie
Jimmy Aubrey comedy produced by Vitagraph.
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The Backyard
Title: The Backyard
Character: Urchin Girl
Released: November 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Jimmy Aubrey lets the kids in the alley shoot arrows at him. After he grows tired of this, he treats them like satchels to get them out of his way. A policeman shows up and he is terrified; later, disguised as a policeman, he encounters Oliver Hardy, who is in brutal mode here.
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The Decorator
Title: The Decorator
Released: September 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Jimmy Aubrey and Oliver Hardy comedy produced by Vitagraph.
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Don't Park Here
Title: Don't Park Here
Character: The Girl
Released: May 19, 1920
Type: Movie
Not one but two of Charlie Chaplin impersonators, Harry Mann and Monty Banks, a film directed by Charley Chase still under the name of Charles Parrott. They go driving around town experiencing various car theft problems.