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
- Laughing at Trouble as Alice Mathews
- The Return of Jimmy Valentine as Mary Davis
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
- The Show-Off as Clara Harling
- There's Always Tomorrow as Sophie White
- Ticket to a Crime as Elaine Purdy
1933
- Deluge as Helen Webster
- In the Money as Mary 'Lambie' Higginbottom
- Obey the Law as Grace Chester
- Female as Harriet Brown
1932
- The Crash as Marcia Peterson
- The Expert as Nettie Minick
- The Devil Is Driving as Nancy Evans
- The Secrets of Wu Sin as Nona Gould
- Divorce In The Family as Mrs. Grace Shumaker
- Drifting Souls as Linda Lawrence
- The Rider of Death Valley as Helen Joyce
1931
- Seed as Peggy Carter
- The Age for Love as Sylvia Pearson
1930
- The Furies as Fifi Sands
- Lovin' the Ladies as Joan Bently
- Once a Gentleman as Mrs. Malin
- Temptation as Julie
1929
- Wedding Rings as Cornelia Quinn
- The Gamblers as Catherine Darwin
- The Show of Shows as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
- Kid Gloves as Ruth
- 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
- New York as Marjorie Church
- French Dressing as Cynthia Grey
- Alias the Lone Wolf as Eve de Montalais
- Broadway Nights as Fanny Franchette
- The Gingham Girl
1926
- The Great Gatsby as Daisy Buchanan
- The Show Off as Amy Fisher Piper
- Bluebeard's Seven Wives as Mary Kelly
- Fascinating Youth as Lois Wilson
- North of 36 as Taisie Lockheart
- Let's Get Married as Mary Corbin
1925
- Contraband as Carmel Lee
- The Thundering Herd as Milly Fayre
- The Vanishing American as Marion Warner
- Irish Luck as Lady Gwendolyn
- Rugged Water as Norma Bartlett
- Welcome Home as Nettie Prouty
1924
- Monsieur Beaucaire as Queen Marie of France
- Another Scandal as Beatrix Franklin
- Icebound as Jane Crosby
- Pied Piper Malone as Patty Thomas
- The Man Who Fights Alone as Marion
1923
- The Covered Wagon as Molly Wingate
- Bella Donna as Patricia
- Hollywood as Lois Wilson
- The Call of the Canyon as Carley Burch
- Ruggles of Red Gap as Kate Kenner
- Only 38 as Mrs. Stanley
- To the Last Man as Ellen Jorth
1922
- Manslaughter as Evans (Lydia's maid)
- 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
- Broad Daylight as Nora Fay
1921
- Midsummer Madness as Margaret Meredith
- The Hell Diggers as Dora Wade
- Miss Lulu Bett as Lulu Bett
- The City of Silent Men as Molly Bryant
- What Every Woman Knows as Maggie Wylie
- 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
- 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
- It Pays to Advertise as Mary Grayson
- Gates of Brass as Margaret Blake
- Why Smith Left Home as Marian
- Come Again Smith as Lucy Stevens
- Too Much Johnson as Mrs. Billings
- The End of the Game as Mary Miller
- A Man's Fight as Mary Tompkins
- The Best Man as Celia Hathaway
1918
- The Bells as Annette
- Three X Gordon as Dorrie Webster
- A Burglar for a Night as Janet Leslie
- His Robe of Honor as Laura Nelson
- Prisoners of the Pines as Rosalie Dufresne
- Maid o' the Storm as Elaine Shackleford
- The Turn of a Card as Cynthia Burdette
1917
- Treason as Floria Natarre
- A Man's Man as Dolores Ruey
- Alimony as Marjorie Lansing
- Alone in the World ... (Director)
1916
- The Decoy
- The Silent Battle as Jane Loring
- The Morals of Hilda as Marion
- The Gay Lord Waring as Helen Von Gerold
- The Beckoning Trail as Mary Helton
- The Pool of Flame as Princess Beatrix
- A Son of the Immortals as Joan Cameron
1915
- The Road to Paradise as Beatrix