Lois Weber
Born: 1879-06-12 in Allegheny City [now Pittsburgh], Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1939-11-13
Known For: Directing
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
2016
- The Women Who Run Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Early Directors on Directing as Self
1934
- White Heat ... (Writer)
1927
- Sensation Seekers ... (Director)
- Topsy and Eva ... (Adaptation)
- The Angel of Broadway ... (Director)
1926
- The Marriage Clause ... (Writer)
1923
- A Chapter in Her Life ... (Director)
1921
- The Blot ... (Director)
- Too Wise Wives ... (Director)
- What's Worth While? ... (Producer)
- What Do Men Want? ... (Director)
1920
- To Please One Woman ... (Director)
1919
- Home ... (Director)
- Forbidden ... (Director)
- A Midnight Romance ... (Writer)
- Mary Regan ... (Scenario Writer)
- When a Girl Loves ... (Writer)
1918
- Tarzan of the Apes ... (Writer)
- For Husbands Only ... (Producer)
- Borrowed Clothes ... (Director)
- The Doctor and the Woman ... (Director)
1917
- The Price of a Good Time ... (Director)
- The Mysterious Mrs. M ... (Director)
- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle as Mrs. Broome
- Even as You and I ... (Director)
- Alone in the World
1916
- Shoes ... (Director)
- The Eye of God as Renie
- Where Are My Children? ... (Director)
- Saving the Family Name ... (Director)
- Discontent ... (Director)
- The Dumb Girl of Portici ... (Producer)
- The People vs. John Doe ... (Director)
- The Flirt ... (Writer)
- Idle Wives as Anne
- Hop - The Devil's Brew as Lydia Jansen
- John Needham's Double ... (Director)
- Wanted- A Home ... (Producer)
1915
- Hypocrites ... (Director)
- Scandal as Daisy Dean
- Jewel ... (Writer)
- Betty in Search of a Thrill ... (Director)
- Captain Courtesy ... (Director)
- Sunshine Molly as Sunshine Molly
- A Cigarette - That's All ... (Director)
- It's No Laughing Matter ... (Writer)
1914
- The Spider and Her Web as Madame DuBarr
- The Merchant of Venice as Portia
- The Pursuit of Hate as Diana Grave
- False Colors as Mrs. Moore
- Lost by a Hair as Summer Girl
- The Opened Shutters ... (Scenario Writer)
1913
- Suspense. as The Wife
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Rosary as The Soldier's Sweetheart
- How Men Propose as The Maid
- The Jew's Christmas as Leah - Isaac's Daughter
1912
- Eyes That See Not as The Millionaire's Wife
- Fine Feathers as Mira, the Artist's Model
- The Troubadour's Triumph ... (Director)
- A Japanese Idyll
1911
- From Death to Life as Aratus' Wife
- Fate as Flora Brown
- The Price as Ann
- A Heroine of '76 as The Tavern Keeper's Daughter
- Lost Illusions as Grace - The Wife
- Sherlock Holmes, Jr. as Mrs. Brown
- On the Brink as Tess
- The Twins as The Twin Sisters