Nell Craig
Biography
Nell Craig was an American actress whose career ran from the 1910s through the 1940s. A native of Princeton, New Jersey, who grew up in Philadelphia, she appeared in silent films for Pathé and Essanay. She was among the performers who moved successfully from silent pictures into sound, and her credits eventually numbered more than 150 films. Her parts ranged across westerns, historical romances, melodramas, and comedies. In a 1917 interview she said she preferred emotional parts to simpering ingenue roles, and she was regarded as a screen beauty. In the Palace of the King (1916) cast her as a blind character. In the Dr. Kildare and Dr. Gillespie medical series, she later played Nurse Nosey Parker. She died in 1965.
73years old at death
- Born Princeton
- Died Hollywood
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 5
- Career span
- 2 years1938 to 1940
Every film, newest first
- 1940Beyond TomorrowIMDb rating 6.5
- 1940Boom TownIMDb rating 7.0
- 1940Dr. Kildare's Strange CaseIMDb rating 6.0
- 1939The Secret of Dr. KildareIMDb rating 6.4
- 1938There's Always a WomanIMDb rating 6.7
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A first
Craig appeared in more than 150 films, and she was one of the performers who managed to make the change from silent movies to sound films, while some of her peers did not.
Nell Craig movies on Netflix
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Harold S. Bucquet directed two of these films. Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Harold S. BucquetDirector, 2 films, 1939 to 1940
All films by Harold S. Bucquet
Also two films together8 more actors
- Lew AyresDr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940) and The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
- Nat PendletonDr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940) and The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
- Emma DunnDr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940) and The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
- Laraine DayDr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940) and The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
- Alma KrugerDr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940) and The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
- George LesseyBoom Town (1940) and Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)
- Marie BlakeDr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940) and The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
- George ReedDr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940) and The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
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Official profiles and reference pages.