Nell Shipman
Also Known As: not available
Biography: 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
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: October 25, 1892
Age: 132 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 23, 1970
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Baree, Son of Kazan
Overview: From James Oliver Curwood's novel about a wolfdog.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-27
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Fires of Conscience
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-25
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Back to God's Country
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-27
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Something New
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-01
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Trail of the North Wind
Overview: Trail of the North Wind is a silent 1924 adventure film.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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The Light on Lookout Mountain
Overview: The Light on Lookout Mountain is a silent adventure drama.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-01
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God's Country and the Woman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-24
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The Melody of Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-13
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Through the Wall
Overview: Through the Wall is a silent 1916 film
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-02
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The Mystery of Lake Lethe
Overview: The Mystery of Lake Lethe is a 1917 silent film
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-15
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The Black Wolf
Overview: In the Spanish Mountains, the Black Wolf, a bandit, reigns at the head of his band, known as "The Charcoal Burners."
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-12
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The Wild Strain
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-14
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Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-25
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The Home Trail
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-25
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A Gentleman's Agreement
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-29
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Toad Allen's Elopement
Overview: Toad Allen's Elopement is a 1919 Western
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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The Washerwoman's War
Overview: The Washerwoman's War is a 1919 silent western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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The Trials of Texas Thompson
Overview: The Trials of Texas Thompson is a 1919 Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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The Girl from Beyond
Overview: Geoffrey Hampden, a Texas oil millionaire living in New York, seeks revenge against Philip Armond, the man who caused his sister to commit suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-15
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Wolf's Brush
Overview: Wolf's Brush is a 1926 silent drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-01
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Day Dreams
Overview: Day Dreams is a 1926 silent film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-01
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The Grub Stake
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-18
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White Water
Overview: "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.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-22
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A Bear, a Boy and a Dog
Overview: A short drama, made from a story written by Nell Shipman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-11
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The Girl from God's Country
Overview: A picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-18
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