Lois Weber
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.
Known For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
12 June 1879
Death Day
13 November 1939
Place of Birth
Allegheny City [now Pittsburgh], Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
Florence Lois Weber, Mrs. Phillips Smalley
MEDIA
FILMOGRAPHY
How Men Propose
1913-07-19Actor, Director, Producer
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913-01-01Screenplay
The Spider and Her Web
1914-03-26Actor, Director, Scenario Writer
A Heroine of '76
1911-02-16Actor, Director
Suspense.
1913-07-06Actor, Director, Writer
The Pursuit of Hate
1914-06-14Actor, Director
Idle Wives
1916-09-16Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Adaptation
Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
1911-07-20Actor
Fate
1911-07-06Actor, Director
A Japanese Idyll
1912-08-28Director
Fine Feathers
1912-02-02Actor, Director
Lost Illusions
1911-10-04Actor
The Rosary
1913-05-03Actor, Director
The Price
1911-11-23Actor, Director, Writer
Alone in the World
1917-01-03
Scandal
1915-07-10Actor, Director, Writer
On the Brink
1911-06-22Actor, Director, Story
Sunshine Molly
1915-03-18Actor, Writer, Director
From Death to Life
1911-06-08Actor, Director
Lost by a Hair
1914-06-28Actor, Writer, Director
The Eye of God
1916-06-05Actor, Scenario Writer, Director, Writer
Hop - The Devil's Brew
1916-02-14Actor, Scenario Writer, Director, Screenplay
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1917-05-13Actor, Director, Writer, Producer
The Merchant of Venice
1914-02-01Actor, Director, Writer
The Twins
1911-06-14Actor, Writer, Director
The Jew's Christmas
1913-12-18Actor, Director, Writer
The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016-05-16Actor
Eyes That See Not
1912-03-14Actor, Director
False Colors
1914-12-17Actor, Director, Screenplay
Early Directors on Directing
2009-01-01Actor
The Dumb Girl of Portici
1916-01-30Producer, Adaptation, Director
Tarzan of the Apes
1918-01-27Writer
Hypocrites
1915-01-20Director, Producer, Writer
Shoes
1916-06-26Director, Producer, Writer
Where Are My Children?
1916-04-16Director, Producer, Writer
The Blot
1921-09-04Director, Writer, Producer
Too Wise Wives
1921-05-22Director, Producer, Story, Screenplay
White Heat
1934-12-30Writer, Director
The Angel of Broadway
1927-10-02Director
Sensation Seekers
1927-03-21Director, Writer
Captain Courtesy
1915-04-19Director
It's No Laughing Matter
1915-01-14Writer, Director
The Marriage Clause
1926-09-12Writer, Director
Betty in Search of a Thrill
1915-05-17Director
A Cigarette - That's All
1915-08-10Director
Wanted- A Home
1916-10-02Producer, Story
Discontent
1916-01-25Director, Writer
What Do Men Want?
1921-11-13Director, Writer
A Midnight Romance
1919-03-10Writer, Director
The Troubadour's Triumph
1912-08-08Director, Writer
The Mysterious Mrs. M
1917-02-05Director, Writer
Even as You and I
1917-04-01Director
Saving the Family Name
1916-09-11Director, Writer
The People vs. John Doe
1916-12-10Director, Writer, Producer
What's Worth While?
1921-02-27Producer, Writer, Director
Mary Regan
1919-05-04Scenario Writer, Director, Screenplay
A Chapter in Her Life
1923-09-17Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
Topsy and Eva
1927-07-26Adaptation, Screenplay
For Husbands Only
1918-09-01Producer, Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
Jewel
1915-08-30Writer
Forbidden
1919-09-08Director, Writer
Home
1919-08-31Director, Writer
The Price of a Good Time
1917-11-04Director, Writer, Editor
The Doctor and the Woman
1918-03-04Director, Writer
Borrowed Clothes
1918-11-04Director, Writer
When a Girl Loves
1919-02-15Writer, Director
To Please One Woman
1920-12-19Director, Writer
John Needham's Double
1916-04-10Director
The Flirt
1916-03-26Writer, Director
The Opened Shutters
1914-11-17Scenario Writer
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