Nell Shipman

Acting

Nell Shipman

Born 1892-10-25 · 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

Acting credits

White Water poster
7.0

"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.

White Water

1926

Something New poster
5.8

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.

Something New

1920

Through the Wall poster
NR

Through the Wall is a silent 1916 film

Through the Wall

1916

Fires of Conscience poster
NR

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.

Fires of Conscience

1916

No artwork available
NR

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.

God's Country and the Woman

1916

A Bear, a Boy and a Dog poster
10.0

A short drama, made from a story written by Nell Shipman.

A Bear, a Boy and a Dog

1921

The Grub Stake poster
6.5

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.

The Grub Stake

1923

The Light on Lookout Mountain poster
10.0

The Light on Lookout Mountain is a silent adventure drama.

The Light on Lookout Mountain

1926

Back to God's Country poster
6.2

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.

Back to God's Country

1919

The Girl from God's Country poster
7.0

A picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.

The Girl from God's Country

1921

Baree, Son of Kazan poster
NR

From James Oliver Curwood's novel about a wolfdog.

Baree, Son of Kazan

1918

The Wild Strain poster
10.0

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.

The Wild Strain

1918

A Gentleman's Agreement poster
10.0

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.

A Gentleman's Agreement

1918

The Black Wolf poster
NR

In the Spanish Mountains, the Black Wolf, a bandit, reigns at the head of his band, known as "The Charcoal Burners."

The Black Wolf

1917

No artwork available
NR

The Mystery of Lake Lethe was a murky crime short.

The Mystery of Lake Lethe

1917

The Girl from Beyond poster
10.0

Geoffrey Hampden, a Texas oil millionaire living in New York, seeks revenge against Philip Armond, the man who caused his sister to commit suicide.

The Girl from Beyond

1918

Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers poster
10.0

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.

Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers

1918

No artwork available
8.0

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.

The Melody of Love

1916

No artwork available
9.0

Day Dreams is a 1926 silent film.

Day Dreams

1926

No artwork available
8.0

Wolf's Brush is a 1926 silent drama

Wolf's Brush

1926

No artwork available
NR

The Washerwoman's War is a 1919 silent western about the title character's battle against the various men making her life difficult.

The Washerwoman's War

1919

Trail of the North Wind poster
7.0

Trail of the North Wind is a silent 1924 adventure film.

Trail of the North Wind

1924

The Home Trail poster
10.0

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.

The Home Trail

1918

No artwork available
NR

The Trials of Texas Thompson is a 1919 Western based on a Alfred Henry Lewis short story.

The Trials of Texas Thompson

1919

Behind the camera

White Water poster
7.0

"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.

White Water

1926

White Water poster
7.0

"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.

White Water

1926

Something New poster
5.8

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.

Something New

1920

Something New poster
5.8

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.

Something New

1920

Something New poster
5.8

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.

Something New

1920

A Bear, a Boy and a Dog poster
10.0

A short drama, made from a story written by Nell Shipman.

A Bear, a Boy and a Dog

1921

The Grub Stake poster
6.5

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.

The Grub Stake

1923

The Grub Stake poster
6.5

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.

The Grub Stake

1923

The Grub Stake poster
6.5

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.

The Grub Stake

1923

The Light on Lookout Mountain poster
10.0

The Light on Lookout Mountain is a silent adventure drama.

The Light on Lookout Mountain

1926

The Girl from God's Country poster
7.0

A picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.

The Girl from God's Country

1921

The Girl from God's Country poster
7.0

A picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.

The Girl from God's Country

1921

Trail of the North Wind poster
7.0

Trail of the North Wind is a silent 1924 adventure film.

Trail of the North Wind

1924

One Hundred Years of Mormonism poster
NR

A retelling of Mormon history from Joseph Smith's birth to the pioneer's settlement in the Salt Lake Valley.

One Hundred Years of Mormonism

1913