Nell Shipman(1892-1970)

Actress
Writer
Producer

Shipman in "Back to God's Country", from the Idaho Film Collection's new DVD, "The Nell Shipman Collection" Volume 1.

Canadian-born actress, writer, 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, with many of her productions being filmed in Canada. Her son, Barry Shipman, became a prolific screenwriter, mostly of westerns.

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Nell Shipman and Lou Tellegen in The Black Wolf (1917)

Nell Shipman in The Girl from God's Country (1921)

Charles Arling, Wheeler Oakman, and Nell Shipman in Back to God's Country (1919)

William Duncan, George Holt, and Nell Shipman in Through the Wall (1916)

Nell Shipman in Back to God's Country (1919)

Known for

The Grub Stake

7.1

Faith Diggs

1923

Something New

5.8

A Young Woman Writer

1920

The Girl from God's Country

Neeka Le Mort
Marion Carslake

1921

Back to God's Country

6.2

Dolores LeBeau

1919

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Actress

Day Dreams
- Short
- 1926
White Water
- Dreena
- Short
- 1926
Wolf's Brush
- Short
- 1926
The Light on Lookout Mountain
- Dreena
- Short
- 1926
Trail of the North Wind
- Short
- 1924
The Grub Stake
- Faith Diggs
- 1923
A Bear, a Boy and a Dog
- Rich woman who gives reward, back to camera
- Short
- 1921
The Girl from God's Country
- Neeka Le Mort
- Marion Carslake
- 1921
Something New
- A Young Woman Writer
- 1920
The Trials of Texas Thompson
- Short
- 1919
The Washerwoman's War
- Short
- 1919
Toad Allen's Elopement
- Short
- 1919
Back to God's Country
- Dolores LeBeau
- 1919
A Gentleman's Agreement
- Theresa Kane
- 1918
Baree, Son of Kazan
- Nepeese
- 1918

Writer

Wings in the Dark
- story "Eyes of the Eagle"
- 1935
White Water
- Writer
- Short
- 1926
Trail of the North Wind
- scenario
- Short
- 1924
The Grub Stake
- story
- 1923
A Bear, a Boy and a Dog
- Writer
- Short
- 1921
The Girl from God's Country
- screenplay
- story
- 1921
Something New
- written by
- 1920
Back to God's Country
- scenario (uncredited)
- 1919
My Fighting Gentleman
- story
- 1917
The Melody of Love
- scenario
- Short
- 1916
Son o' the Stars
- scenario
- Short
- 1916
The Widow's Secret
- scenario
- Short
- 1915
The Pine's Revenge
- scenario
- screenplay
- story "The King's Keeper"
- Short
- 1915
Under the Crescent
- written by
- 1915
The Shepherd of the Southern Cross
- scenario
- 1914

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- October 25, 1892
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- January 23, 1970
- Cabazon, California, USA(undisclosed)
- Barry Shipman
Her autobiography, "The Silent Screen and My Talking Heart" was published posthumously by Boise State University Press in 1987.
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- 4 Print Biographies
- 14 Articles

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Trivia
She was the first actress in legitimate-film history to ever do a full frontal nude scene on film. It was in Back to God's Country (1919), which coincidentally (or perhaps because of the scene) became the most financially successful silent film ever made in Canada. The tagline in one of the posters for the movie was, "Is the Nude Rude?".

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