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
1980
- Hollywood as Self
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
- The Return of Jimmy Valentine as Mary Davis
- Wedding Present as Laura Dodacker
- Laughing at Trouble as Alice Mathews
1935
- Your Uncle Dudley as Christine Saunders
- Life Returns as Dr. Louise Stone
- Society Fever as Portia Prouty
- Cappy Ricks Returns as Florry Peasley
- Public Opinion as Mona Trevor / Anne Trevor
- Born to Gamble as Paula Mathews
1934
- Bright Eyes as Mary Blake
- No Greater Glory as Mother
- School for Girls as Miss Cartwright
- There's Always Tomorrow as Sophie White
- Ticket to a Crime as Elaine Purdy
- The Show-Off as Clara Harling
1933
- Deluge as Helen Webster
- Female as Harriet Brown
- In the Money as Mary 'Lambie' Higginbottom
- Obey the Law as Grace Chester
1932
- Divorce In The Family as Mrs. Grace Shumaker
- The Secrets of Wu Sin as Nona Gould
- The Devil Is Driving as Nancy Evans
- The Rider of Death Valley as Helen Joyce
- The Expert as Nettie Minick
- The Crash as Marcia Peterson
- Drifting Souls as Linda Lawrence
1931
- The Age for Love as Sylvia Pearson
- Seed as Peggy Carter
1930
- The Furies as Fifi Sands
- Once a Gentleman as Mrs. Malin
- Lovin' the Ladies as Joan Bently
- Temptation as Julie
1929
- The Show of Shows as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
- Wedding Rings as Cornelia Quinn
- The Gamblers as Catherine Darwin
- Her Husband's Women as The Painter's Jealous Wife
- Kid Gloves as Ruth
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
- The Gingham Girl
- Broadway Nights as Fanny Franchette
1926
- The Great Gatsby as Daisy Buchanan
- The Show Off as Amy Fisher Piper
- Bluebeard's Seven Wives as Mary Kelly
- Let's Get Married as Mary Corbin
- North of 36 as Taisie Lockheart
- Fascinating Youth as Lois Wilson
1925
- Contraband as Carmel Lee
- The Thundering Herd as Milly Fayre
- The Vanishing American as Marion Warner
- Welcome Home as Nettie Prouty
- Rugged Water as Norma Bartlett
- Irish Luck as Lady Gwendolyn
1924
- The Man Who Fights Alone as Marion
- Pied Piper Malone as Patty Thomas
- Monsieur Beaucaire as Queen Marie of France
- Icebound as Jane Crosby
- Another Scandal as Beatrix Franklin
1923
- Bella Donna as Patricia
- To the Last Man as Ellen Jorth
- The Covered Wagon as Molly Wingate
- Ruggles of Red Gap as Kate Kenner
- The Call of the Canyon as Carley Burch
- Hollywood as Lois Wilson
- Only 38 as Mrs. Stanley
1922
- Is Matrimony a Failure? as Mabel Hoyt
- The World's Champion as Lady Elizabeth
- The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922 as Self
- Without Compromise as Jean Ainsworth
- Our Leading Citizen as Katherine Fendle - His Fiancee
- Manslaughter as Evans (Lydia's maid)
- Broad Daylight as Nora Fay
1921
- What Every Woman Knows as Maggie Wylie
- The City of Silent Men as Molly Bryant
- Miss Lulu Bett as Lulu Bett
- The Hell Diggers as Dora Wade
- Midsummer Madness as Margaret Meredith
- The Lost Romance as Sylvia Hayes
1920
- Burglar Proof as Laura Lowell
- Thou Art the Man as Joan Farrant
- The City of Masks as Miss Emsdale
- Who's Your Servant? as Madeline Bancroft
- What's Your Hurry? as Virginia MacMurran
- A Full House as Ottilie Howell
1919
- Love Insurance as Cynthia Meyrick
- The Drifters as The Girl
- Why Smith Left Home as Marian
- It Pays to Advertise as Mary Grayson
- A Man's Fight as Mary Tompkins
- The End of the Game as Mary Miller
- Gates of Brass as Margaret Blake
- The Best Man as Celia Hathaway
- Too Much Johnson as Mrs. Billings
- Come Again Smith as Lucy Stevens
1918
- His Robe of Honor as Laura Nelson
- A Burglar for a Night as Janet Leslie
- The Bells as Annette
- Maid o' the Storm as Elaine Shackleford
- The Turn of a Card as Cynthia Burdette
- Three X Gordon as Dorrie Webster
- Prisoners of the Pines as Rosalie Dufresne
1917
- A Man's Man as Dolores Ruey
- Alimony as Marjorie Lansing
- Alone in the World ... (Director)
- Treason as Floria Natarre
1916
- The Decoy
- The Gay Lord Waring as Helen Von Gerold
- The Morals of Hilda as Marion
- The Pool of Flame as Princess Beatrix
- A Son of the Immortals as Joan Cameron
- The Silent Battle as Jane Loring
- The Beckoning Trail as Mary Helton
1915
- The Road to Paradise as Beatrix