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
- Topsy and Eva ... (Adaptation)
- Sensation Seekers ... (Director)
- 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 Do Men Want? ... (Director)
- What's Worth While? ... (Producer)
1920
- To Please One Woman ... (Director)
1919
- Home ... (Director)
- Forbidden ... (Director)
- When a Girl Loves ... (Writer)
- A Midnight Romance ... (Writer)
- Mary Regan ... (Scenario Writer)
1918
- Tarzan of the Apes ... (Writer)
- For Husbands Only ... (Producer)
- Borrowed Clothes ... (Director)
- The Doctor and the Woman ... (Director)
1917
- The Mysterious Mrs. M ... (Director)
- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle as Mrs. Broome
- The Price of a Good Time ... (Director)
- Even as You and I ... (Director)
- Alone in the World
1916
- Shoes ... (Director)
- Saving the Family Name ... (Director)
- Where Are My Children? ... (Director)
- Discontent ... (Director)
- The Eye of God as Renie
- John Needham's Double ... (Director)
- The People vs. John Doe ... (Director)
- The Dumb Girl of Portici ... (Producer)
- The Flirt ... (Writer)
- Hop - The Devil's Brew as Lydia Jansen
- Wanted- A Home ... (Producer)
- Idle Wives as Anne
1915
- A Cigarette - That's All ... (Director)
- Hypocrites ... (Director)
- Captain Courtesy ... (Director)
- Scandal as Daisy Dean
- Jewel ... (Writer)
- Betty in Search of a Thrill ... (Director)
- It's No Laughing Matter ... (Writer)
- Sunshine Molly as Sunshine Molly
1914
- The Merchant of Venice as Portia
- The Opened Shutters ... (Scenario Writer)
- Lost by a Hair as Summer Girl
- The Spider and Her Web as Madame DuBarr
- False Colors as Mrs. Moore
- The Pursuit of Hate as Diana Grave
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
- A Japanese Idyll
- Fine Feathers as Mira, the Artist's Model
- The Troubadour's Triumph ... (Director)
- Eyes That See Not as The Millionaire's Wife
1911
- From Death to Life as Aratus' Wife
- Sherlock Holmes, Jr. as Mrs. Brown
- The Twins as The Twin Sisters
- Fate as Flora Brown
- On the Brink as Tess
- Lost Illusions as Grace - The Wife
- The Price as Ann
- A Heroine of '76 as The Tavern Keeper's Daughter