Evelyn Nelson
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5875 |
| Birthday | 1899-11-13 |
| Place of Birth | Chloride, Arizona, USA |
| Also Known As | Dorris Evelyn Nelson, |
1921
Cyclone Bliss
0/0
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 rend...
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Cyclone Bliss
1919
Don't Park Here
7/2
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...
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Don't Park Here
1923
The Forbidden Trail
6.5/2
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 h...
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The Forbidden Trail
1920
The Decorator
6.333/3
Inept interior decorator Jimmy is hired to work at the home of a wealthy artist. From the moment he arrives, Jimmy's incompetence leads to disaster as...
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The Decorator
1920
His Jonah Day
7/2
Jimmy, at a fashionable beach, uses binoculars to watch women and falls for a beautiful nursemaid after slipping on a banana peel. His clumsy attempts...
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His Jonah Day
1923
Desert Rider
6/3
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...
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Desert Rider
1920
The Backyard
7.5/2
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...
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The Backyard
1921
Hills of Hate
7/1
Nate “Hate” Hammond is in business with his father and much sought after by mothers in the city who have marriageable daughters. Their quest is fruitl...
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Hills of Hate
1921
The Double O
8/1
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 k...
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The Double O
1922
Peaceful Peters
9/1
A dying prospector tells "Peters the Pacific" about a mine he has discovered for "the mate's girl" and the ambush he has been set upon by mine jumpers...
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Peaceful Peters
1922
The Crow's Nest
8/1
Esteban, a white boy, is raised by an Indian squaw, who believes she is his mother and from whom Beaugard steals the papers documenting Esteban's birt...
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The Crow's Nest
1922
The Desert Bridegroom
10/1
Sheriff Jack Harkins seeks vengeance against Red Saunders, who caused the death of Harkins' sister. Saunders, after terrorizing the area, attempts to...
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The Desert Bridegroom
1922
The Desert's Crucible
9/1
Jack Hardy, Sr. sends his son, Jack Hardy Jr., to the American West to "make a man of him" and instill a sense of responsibility. While West, Jack fal...
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The Desert's Crucible
1922
Two-Fisted Jefferson
7/1
Sheriff Jefferson Mosby is sent to Cactus Flats, Nevada, to combat outlaws harassing local homesteaders. After discovering the town's mayor is leading...
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Two-Fisted Jefferson
1921
The Recoil
10/1
Evelyn Nelson portrays the character Frances Powell in this story that centers on themes of justice and personal vendettas in the old West.
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The Recoil
1921
A Motion to Adjourn
9/1
Silas Warner, Jr., is the playboy son of a wealthy New York financier. When Silas’s brother, Archie, commits a near-theft, Silas nobly takes the blame...
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A Motion to Adjourn
1921
The Broken Spur
8/1
Engineer Joe Dayton faces sabotage while constructing a railroad through the Canadian Northwest. Local bandit leader Jacques Durand attempts to stop t...
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The Broken Spur
1921
Dead or Alive
8/1
Jack Stokes is Sheriff Lamar's right-hand man. Mrs. Lamar receives a threatening letter from a gambler. He threatens to expose her past life if she do...
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Dead or Alive
1920
The Trouble Hunter
9/1
Jimmy makes a chaotic entrance into a café falling through a coal chute, stumbling into a den of chorus girls. Meanwhile, a Salvation Army lass is att...
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The Trouble Hunter
1920
A Pajama Marriage
9/1
Bedroom farce centering on a chaotic domestic misunderstanding.
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A Pajama Marriage
1920
Springtime
10/1
A street cleaner who gets into a heated altercation with his superintendent. In the chaotic aftermath of the fight and while performing his daily roun...
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