Lois Wilson
Born: 1894-06-26 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1988-03-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
A schoolteacher who became a stage actress (briefly), Lois Wilson entered films in 1916 at Paramount (her sisters, Diana Kane and Connie Lewis, also worked as actresses). Wilson played leading roles well into the sound era, and after she retired from the screen she worked sporadically in television and again appeared on stage.
Filmography
1949
- The Aldrich Family as Alice Aldrich
- The Girl from Jones Beach as Mrs. Wilson
1941
- For Beauty's Sake as Mrs. Lloyd Kennar
1940
- Nobody's Children as Miss Jamieson
1939
- Bad Little Angel as Mrs. Ellen Creighton
1936
- Wedding Present as Laura Dodacker
- The Return of Jimmy Valentine as Mary Davis
- Laughing at Trouble as Alice Mathews
1935
- Your Uncle Dudley as Christine Saunders
- Life Returns as Dr. Louise Stone
- Born to Gamble as Paula Mathews
- Cappy Ricks Returns as Florry Peasley
- Public Opinion as Mona Trevor / Anne Trevor
- Society Fever as Portia Prouty
1934
- School for Girls as Miss Cartwright
- No Greater Glory as Mother
- Bright Eyes as Mary Blake
- The Show-Off as Clara Harling
- Ticket to a Crime as Elaine Purdy
- There's Always Tomorrow as Sophie White
1933
- Obey the Law as Grace Chester
- In the Money as Mary 'Lambie' Higginbottom
- Deluge as Helen Webster
- Female as Harriet Brown
1932
- The Crash as Marcia Peterson
- The Expert as Nettie Minick
- The Devil Is Driving as Nancy Evans
- Divorce In The Family as Mrs. Grace Shumaker
- The Rider of Death Valley as Helen Joyce
- The Secrets of Wu Sin as Nona Gould
- Drifting Souls as Linda Lawrence
1931
- Seed as Peggy Carter
- The Age for Love as Sylvia Pearson
1930
- Lovin' the Ladies as Joan Bently
- The Furies as Fifi Sands
- Once a Gentleman as Mrs. Malin
- Temptation as Julie
1929
- The Gamblers as Catherine Darwin
- Wedding Rings as Cornelia Quinn
- Kid Gloves as Ruth
- The Show of Shows as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
- Her Husband's Women as The Painter's Jealous Wife
1928
- Object: Alimony as Ruth Rutledge
- Sally's Shoulders as Sally
- On Trial as May Strickland
- Conquest as Diane Holden
- Coney Island as Joan Wellman
1927
- French Dressing as Cynthia Grey
- New York as Marjorie Church
- Alias the Lone Wolf as Eve de Montalais
- Broadway Nights as Fanny Franchette
- The Gingham Girl
1926
- The Show Off as Amy Fisher Piper
- Fascinating Youth as Lois Wilson
- The Great Gatsby as Daisy Buchanan
- North of 36 as Taisie Lockheart
- Bluebeard's Seven Wives as Mary Kelly
- Let's Get Married as Mary Corbin
1925
- Contraband as Carmel Lee
- The Thundering Herd as Milly Fayre
- The Vanishing American as Marion Warner
- Rugged Water as Norma Bartlett
- Irish Luck as Lady Gwendolyn
- Welcome Home as Nettie Prouty
1924
- The Man Who Fights Alone as Marion
- Monsieur Beaucaire as Queen Marie of France
- Another Scandal as Beatrix Franklin
- Icebound as Jane Crosby
- Pied Piper Malone as Patty Thomas
1923
- Bella Donna as Patricia
- To the Last Man as Ellen Jorth
- Hollywood as Lois Wilson
- The Call of the Canyon as Carley Burch
- The Covered Wagon as Molly Wingate
- Ruggles of Red Gap as Kate Kenner
- Only 38 as Mrs. Stanley
1922
- Is Matrimony a Failure? as Mabel Hoyt
- Manslaughter as Evans (Lydia's maid)
- Broad Daylight as Nora Fay
- Without Compromise as Jean Ainsworth
- The World's Champion as Lady Elizabeth
- Our Leading Citizen as Katherine Fendle - His Fiancee
- The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922 as Self
1921
- Miss Lulu Bett as Lulu Bett
- The City of Silent Men as Molly Bryant
- The Hell Diggers as Dora Wade
- What Every Woman Knows as Maggie Wylie
- The Lost Romance as Sylvia Hayes
- Midsummer Madness as Margaret Meredith
1920
- Burglar Proof as Laura Lowell
- Thou Art the Man as Joan Farrant
- The City of Masks as Miss Emsdale
- A Full House as Ottilie Howell
- Who's Your Servant? as Madeline Bancroft
- What's Your Hurry? as Virginia MacMurran
1919
- Love Insurance as Cynthia Meyrick
- The Drifters as The Girl
- Why Smith Left Home as Marian
- It Pays to Advertise as Mary Grayson
- Gates of Brass as Margaret Blake
- Too Much Johnson as Mrs. Billings
- A Man's Fight as Mary Tompkins
- The End of the Game as Mary Miller
- Come Again Smith as Lucy Stevens
- The Best Man as Celia Hathaway
1918
- The Bells as Annette
- A Burglar for a Night as Janet Leslie
- Three X Gordon as Dorrie Webster
- His Robe of Honor as Laura Nelson
- Maid o' the Storm as Elaine Shackleford
- Prisoners of the Pines as Rosalie Dufresne
- The Turn of a Card as Cynthia Burdette
1917
- Treason as Floria Natarre
- Alimony as Marjorie Lansing
- A Man's Man as Dolores Ruey
- Alone in the World ... (Director)
1916
- The Decoy
- The Morals of Hilda as Marion
- The Pool of Flame as Princess Beatrix
- The Gay Lord Waring as Helen Von Gerold
- The Silent Battle as Jane Loring
- A Son of the Immortals as Joan Cameron
- The Beckoning Trail as Mary Helton
1915
- The Road to Paradise as Beatrix