---
name: "Evelyn Preer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/evelyn-preer"
fi1m_id: "evelyn-preer"
imdb_id: "nm0695792"
tmdb_id: 249488
wikidata_id: "Q5416410"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 July 1896"
died: "1 November 1932"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:44:59.156842+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Evelyn Preer

## Identity

Evelyn Preer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/evelyn-preer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** evelyn-preer
- **IMDb ID:** nm0695792
- **TMDB ID:** 249488
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5416410
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Preer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5416410, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695792/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/249488

Actor. Born 16 July 1896 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. Died 1 November 1932.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 July 1896, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
- **Died:** 1 November 1932
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Preer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5416410, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695792/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/249488

## Streaming the US now

- **MUBI:** [*Within Our Gates*](https://film.one/film/within-our-gates.md) (78)

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## Biography

Evelyn Preer was an American actress who appeared in silent films and on stage in the 1910s and 1920s. Born Evelyn Jarvis in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1896, she moved to Chicago after her father's death and began her career in vaudeville before making her film debut in Oscar Micheaux's *The Homesteader* (1919).

She starred in several films directed by Micheaux, including the role of Sylvia Landry in *Within Our Gates* (1920). Preer also performed with the Lafayette Players theatrical company and appeared on Broadway. Her later screen credits include an uncredited role in *Blonde Venus* (1932). She died in Los Angeles in 1932.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Within Our Gates* (1920), Fi1m 78, as Sylvia Landry — [page](https://film.one/film/within-our-gates.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Blonde Venus* (1932), as (uncredited)
- *Ladies of the Big House* (1931), as Inmate
- *Georgia Rose* (1930), as Grace
- *Brown Gravy* (1929), Actor
- *The Lady Fare* (1929), Actor
- *The Widow's Bite* (1929), Actor
- *The Framing of the Shrew* (1929), as Clarry Robson
- *Melancholy Dame* (1929), as Jonquil Williams
- *The Spider's Web* (1927), as Norma Shepard
- *The Conjure Woman* (1926), Actor
- *The Devil's Disciple* (1925), Actor
- *Birthright* (1924), as Cissie Deldine
- *Deceit* (1923), as Doris Rutledge/Evelyn Bently
- *The Gunsaulus Mystery* (1921), as Ida May Gilpin
- *Within Our Gates* (1920), as Sylvia Landry — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/within-our-gates.md)
- *The Brute* (1920), as Mildred Carrison
- *The Homesteader* (1919), as Orlean

## Gallery

- ![Evelyn Preer, circa 1920](https://film.one/media/person/3848830/gallery-33d0ee4bf711.png) Evelyn Preer, circa 1920 — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Evelyn_Preer%2C_circa_1920.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![A still of Evelyn Preer in the 1919 lost film, The Homesteader. From The New York Public Library.](https://film.one/media/person/3848830/gallery-dbbded3e667b.jpg) A still of Evelyn Preer in the 1919 lost film, The Homesteader. From The New York Public Library. — From The New York Public Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Evelyn_Preer_1919_The_Homesteader.jpg/1280px-Evelyn_Preer_1919_The_Homesteader.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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