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Lois Weber

Known for: Directing

Biography: 1879-06-12

Deathday: 1939-11-13 (60 years old)

Biography

Lois Weber began film work as an actress, then soon began also writing and directing films. She has been referred to as "the most important female director the American film industry has known". Best known for her hard-hitting films that address social issues, she continued making films into the 1920s until she lost favor with motion picture audiences.

Filmography

all 69

Movies 69

Director 35

Writer 5

self 1

Self (archive footage)

Lois Weber

Biography

Filmography

all 69

Movies 69

Director 35

Writer 5

self 1

The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016)

White Heat (1934)

The Angel of Broadway (1927)

Topsy and Eva (1927)

Sensation Seekers (1927)

The Marriage Clause (1926)

A Chapter in Her Life (1923)

What Do Men Want? (1921)

The Blot (1921)

Too Wise Wives (1921)

What's Worth While? (1921)

To Please One Woman (1920)

Forbidden (1919)

Home (1919)

Mary Regan (1919)

A Midnight Romance (1919)

When a Girl Loves (1919)

Borrowed Clothes (1918)

For Husbands Only (1918)

The Doctor and the Woman (1918)

Tarzan of the Apes (1918)

The Price of a Good Time (1917)

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1917)

Even as You and I (1917)

The Mysterious Mrs. M (1917)

Alone in the World (1917)

The People vs. John Doe (1916)

Wanted- A Home (1916)

Idle Wives (1916)

Saving the Family Name (1916)

Shoes (1916)

The Eye of God (1916)

Where Are My Children? (1916)

John Needham's Double (1916)

The Flirt (1916)

Hop - The Devil's Brew (1916)

The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)

Discontent (1916)

Jewel (1915)

A Cigarette - That's All (1915)

Scandal (1915)

Betty in Search of a Thrill (1915)

Captain Courtesy (1915)

Sunshine Molly (1915)

Hypocrites (1915)

It's No Laughing Matter (1915)

False Colors (1914)

The Opened Shutters (1914)

Lost by a Hair (1914)

The Pursuit of Hate (1914)

The Spider and Her Web (1914)

The Merchant of Venice (1914)

The Jew's Christmas (1913)

How Men Propose (1913)

Suspense. (1913)

The Rosary (1913)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913)

A Japanese Idyll (1912)

The Troubadour's Triumph (1912)

Eyes That See Not (1912)

Fine Feathers (1912)

The Price (1911)

Lost Illusions (1911)

Sherlock Holmes, Jr. (1911)

Fate (1911)

On the Brink (1911)

The Twins (1911)

From Death to Life (1911)

A Heroine of '76 (1911)

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Information

Known ForDirecting

Known For
Directing

Gender
Female

Birthday
1879-06-12

Deathday
1939-11-13 (60 years old)

Birth Place
Allegheny City [now Pittsburgh], Pennsylvania, USA

Relationships
Phillips Smalley (1904-01-01 - 1922-01-01)

Citizenships
United States of America

Also Known As
Florence Lois Weber, Mrs. Phillips Smalley

Awards
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame