Nell Shipman

Nell Shipman

Born: October 25, 1892
Died: January 23, 1970
in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Canadian-born actress, writer, director, producer and animal trainer Nell Shipman was best known for writing and acting in several James Oliver Curwood stories and for her portrayals of strong, adventurous women

Movies for Nell Shipman...

Day Dreams
Title: Day Dreams
Released: August 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Day Dreams is a 1926 silent film.
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White Water
Title: White Water
Character: Dreena
Released: July 22, 1926
Type: Movie
"White Water" is a short drama about lumberjack country. Nell Shipman plays a girl in love with nature and animals. One day she meets a crippled boy, who sings for pocket change. When she finds out that the boy is badly malnourished, Nell Shipman takes him under her wing and finds work for his elder brother. Then one day disaster strikes when the boy, who can't swim, falls into the river and is carried downstream. Nell Shipman jumps in a canoe and paddles frantically to reach the boy before the current takes him to the rapids, where mortal danger awaits.
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Wolf's Brush
Title: Wolf's Brush
Released: May 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Wolf's Brush is a 1926 silent drama
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The Light on Lookout Mountain
Title: The Light on Lookout Mountain
Character: Dreena
Released: April 1, 1926
Type: Movie
The Light on Lookout Mountain is a silent adventure drama.
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Trail of the North Wind
Title: Trail of the North Wind
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Trail of the North Wind is a silent 1924 adventure film.
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The Grub Stake
Title: The Grub Stake
Character: Faith Diggs
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.
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The Girl from God's Country
Title: The Girl from God's Country
Character: Neeka Le Mort / Marion Carslake
Released: September 18, 1921
Type: Movie
A picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.
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A Bear, a Boy and a Dog
Title: A Bear, a Boy and a Dog
Character: Rich woman who gives reward, back to camera
Released: September 11, 1921
Type: Movie
A short drama, made from a story written by Nell Shipman.
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Something New
Title: Something New
Character: A Young Woman Writer
Released: October 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A young woman visiting in Mexico is kidnapped by a gang of bandits, who drag her through the rugged wilderness to their hideout. She manages to leave word for her friend Bill, who knows the country well. But when Bill cannot find a horse, his only available form of transportation is his roadster. Nevertheless, he is determined to come to her rescue, even though it means trying to drive the car across miles of rocky, broken terrain.
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Back to God's Country
Title: Back to God's Country
Character: Dolores LeBeau
Released: October 27, 1919
Type: Movie
After her father is killed by an outlaw, Dolores marries Peter. While they're at sea in the Arctic, Dolores meets the ship's captain, who is the man who killed her father. The captain causes an 'accident' to happen to Peter, so Dolores is all alone and defenceless as they drop anchor in a remote harbour.
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The Washerwoman's War
Title: The Washerwoman's War
Released: January 1, 1919
Type: Movie
The Washerwoman's War is a 1919 silent western.
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The Trials of Texas Thompson
Title: The Trials of Texas Thompson
Released: January 1, 1919
Type: Movie
The Trials of Texas Thompson is a 1919 Western.
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Toad Allen's Elopement
Title: Toad Allen's Elopement
Released: January 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Toad Allen's Elopement is a 1919 Western
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A Gentleman's Agreement
Title: A Gentleman's Agreement
Character: Theresa Kane
Released: July 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Allen Spargo, a mining engineer who is betrothed to Theresa Kane, goes West to make his fortune and is seriously injured in an accident. Kate Leonard, who falls in love with him while nursing him to recovery, jealously intercepts his fiancée's letters and then writes Theresa that Allen is dead.
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Baree, Son of Kazan
Title: Baree, Son of Kazan
Character: Nepeese
Released: May 27, 1918
Type: Movie
From James Oliver Curwood's novel about a wolfdog.
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The Girl from Beyond
Title: The Girl from Beyond
Character: Cynthia Stewart
Released: April 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Geoffrey Hampden, a Texas oil millionaire living in New York, seeks revenge against Philip Armond, the man who caused his sister to commit suicide.
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The Home Trail
Title: The Home Trail
Character: Clara
Released: March 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Tom Evans, the fearless range boss of the Double X Ranch, falls in love with a romantic schoolteacher from the East named Clara. They marry and for a time are happy, but in Tom's absence, his partner Blackie persuades the restless young wife to run away with him. Blackie soon deserts Clara, and she is forced to earn her keep at a disreputable dance hall. After robbing a stage, Blackie returns, and Tom, who has been waiting for his former friend, goes after him. In a gun battle with Tom and his posse, Blackie kills Clara and escapes, but Tom follows him into the desert and takes his horse, leaving him to die of thirst.
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Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers
Title: Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers
Character: Virginia Wetherford
Released: February 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Ed Wetherford becomes an outlaw and, to escape imprisonment, abandons his wife Eliza and daughter Virginia. After attending college in the East, Virginia returns to California, where she meets and falls in love with Ross Cavanaugh, a United States ranger.
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The Wild Strain
Title: The Wild Strain
Character: Winifred Hollywood
Released: January 14, 1918
Type: Movie
Although the prominent Hollywood family prides itself on its illustrious family tree, young Winifred Hollywood exhibits a fondness for wild adventures that greatly disturbs her parents. When Winifred becomes engaged to bank official Harold Burton, his equally snobbish parents visit the Hollywood home and are shocked by the young woman's spirited outbursts and mischievous tricks, and the engagement is broken after she decides to perform bareback feats with a traveling circus.
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The Black Wolf
Title: The Black Wolf
Character: Dona Isabel
Released: February 12, 1917
Type: Movie
In the Spanish Mountains, the Black Wolf, a bandit, reigns at the head of his band, known as "The Charcoal Burners."
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The Mystery of Lake Lethe
Title: The Mystery of Lake Lethe
Released: January 15, 1917
Type: Movie
The Mystery of Lake Lethe is a 1917 silent film
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Through the Wall
Title: Through the Wall
Character: Alice Kittredge
Released: October 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Through the Wall is a silent 1916 film
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Fires of Conscience
Title: Fires of Conscience
Character: Nell Blythe
Released: September 25, 1916
Type: Movie
George Baxter presents his new wife, Margery. Paul Sneed, Baxter's neighbor, knew Margery before the marriage. When Baxter returns home unexpectedly one night, he finds Sneed and his wife together. As Sneed runs away, Baxter shoots and kills him. Both Margery and Sneed's father, Judge Randolph Sneed, witness the shooting.
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The Melody of Love
Title: The Melody of Love
Character: Vera Lou
Released: June 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Jack O'Brien comes to the mining town of El Dorado with nothing but his pluck and his music. Biddy Malone was the first to hear his singing, and it won a place for the lad in her heart and a job at her woodpile to pay for his board, while Mary, who lived with Biddy, looked and listened, and learned to love the big singer. Hardpan Henry, who owned the Lucky Strike claim, and who was really Mary's father, also hears the troubadour's song, took a fancy to the lad and showed him the sights of El Dorado.
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God's Country and the Woman
Title: God's Country and the Woman
Character: Josephine Adare
Released: April 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Far away, in the timberlands of the North, where the purity of woman is placed above all else, lived Josephine Adare, a kind, honest soul, whose face plainly bore an expression of deep sorrow and anxiety. Up to this, God's Own Country, came a man, Philip Weyman, to spend a year in that region. The man meets the woman and falls in love with her. He begs her to confide in him her great sorrow, which he sees she is constantly thinking of, but she tells him that she cannot do so.