Evelyn Nelson

Born: 1899-11-13

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.


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Don't Park Here

as The Girl
Released: 1920-05-19

Not one but two of Charlie Chaplin impersonators, Harry Mann and Monty Banks, a film directed by...

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His Jonah Day

as The Girl
Released: 1920-11-26

Jimmy Aubrey comedy produced by Vitagraph.

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The Decorator

as uncredited
Released: 1920-09-03

Jimmy Aubrey and Oliver Hardy comedy produced by Vitagraph.

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The Backyard

as Urchin Girl
Released: 1920-11-01

Jimmy Aubrey lets the kids in the alley shoot arrows at him. After he grows tired of this, he...

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Cyclone Bliss

as Helen Turner
Released: 1921-01-20

Quiet and fairminded Jack Bliss traces his missing father to Hell's Hole, where he meets Helen...

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The Forbidden Trail

as Isobel Lorraine
Released: 1923-02-01

When Red Hawk Dugan and his men attack a small wagon train, Colonel Merriwell is killed and the...

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The Double O

as Frances Powell
Released: 1921-11-29

Happy Hanes, a ranch hand, comes between a crooked foreman and the new ranch owner Frances...

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Hills of Hate

as Ann La Vere
Released: 1921-07-01

Nate “Hate” Hammond is in business with his father and much sought after by mothers in the city...

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Desert Rider

as Carolyn Grey
Released: 1923-06-10

Kincade shoots Baird and takes the map to his gold mine. Sutherland finds the dying Baird who...

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