Ellen O'Mara Sullivan

Writing

Birthplace: Limerick, Ireland

Ellen (Nell) O'Mara Sullivan, was an Irish silent film screenwriter and film company director. The company her family funded and ran was said to be the most prolific Irish silent film company. In 1919 her son caught typhoid fever and Sullivan caught the disease and died. The film company ended the following year once the three films in production had been completed.