Nell Shipman was a Canadian born silent film actress. At a very young age, she acted on stage but it wasn't until she married Ernest Shipman and moved to Hollywood did she start acting in films. Nell Shipman was a talented actress, animal trainer and stunt woman and proved to be perfectly suited for movies filmed in nature. In the early 1920s, she started Lionhead Pictures and moved to Priest Lake Idaho where she built Lionhead Lodge, part home, part studio, part haven, part zoo. She lost everything after the financial disaster of one of her films. After acting in a few more films and plays, she developed a career in writing stories. She wrote plays, screenplays, short stories, novels and children's books. She died in 1970.Nell Shipman was a Canadian born silent film actress. At a very young age, she acted on stage but it wasn't until she married Ernest Shipman and moved to Hollywood did she start acting in films. Nell Shipman was a talented actress, animal trainer and stunt woman and proved to be perfectly suited for movies filmed in nature. In the early 1920s, she started Lionhead Pictures and moved to Priest Lake Idaho where she built Lionhead Lodge, part home, part studio, part haven, part zoo. She lost everything after the financial disaster of one of her films. After acting in a few more films and plays, she developed a career in writing stories. She wrote plays, screenplays, short stories, novels and children's books. She died in 1970....more
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