Nell Craig

Nell Craig (June 13, 1891 – January 5, 1965) was an American actress from the 1910s into the 1940s. In silent pictures she was known for her collaborations with her husband, director Fred E. Wright. In the 1940s, she played Nurse "Nosey" Parker in the Dr. Kildare and Dr. Gillespie medical dramas.

Biography Craig was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, the daughter of Charles Craig and Sarah J. Applegate Craig. Her father worked for the railroad; both of her parents were also born in New Jersey.

Craig made over 150 films. Unlike some of her peers, she successfully made the transition from the silent era into sound films. She was seen in westerns, melodramas, and comedies. "I prefer emotional parts, not simpering ingenue parts," she told an interviewer in 1917.

She married writer and director Fred E. Wright, who directed her in silent films for Pathé and Essanay studios. They moved to California in 1918, he left film work, and she supported them while he wrote his best-selling novel, Pandora La Croix (1924). Her husband died in 1936. She lived at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in her later years, and died in 1965, in Hollywood, at the age of 73.

Partial filmography Still from the American drama film The Queen of Sheba (1921) with Nell Craig as Princess Vashti, on page 71 of the September 24, 1921 Exhibitors Herald.

Silent films The Battle of Shiloh (1913) Pearl of the Punjab (1914, Pathé) Jabez's Conquest (1915, Essanay) A Pound for a Pound (1915, Essanay) The Whirlpool (1915, Essanay) On the Little Mill Trace (1915, Essanay) The Danger of Being Lonesome (1915, Essanay) The Condemnation (1916, Essanay) In the Palace of the King (1916, Essanay; adapted from a Francis Marion Crawford novel) The Triflers (1920) The Desperate Hero (1920) Passion's Playground (1920) Her First Elopement (1920) The Queen of Sheba (1921) Remembrance (1922) The Abysmal Brute (1923) The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941) Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941) Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942) Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942) Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942) Between Two Women (1945) Black Market Babies (1945) Possessed (1947) Dark Delusion (1947) Here Comes Trouble (1948)