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 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
- Laughing at Trouble as Alice Mathews
- Wedding Present as Laura Dodacker
- The Return of Jimmy Valentine as Mary Davis
1935
- 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
- Your Uncle Dudley as Christine Saunders
1934
- Bright Eyes as Mary Blake
- Ticket to a Crime as Elaine Purdy
- School for Girls as Miss Cartwright
- No Greater Glory as Mother
- There's Always Tomorrow as Sophie White
- The Show-Off as Clara Harling
1933
- Female as Harriet Brown
- Deluge as Helen Webster
- In the Money as Mary 'Lambie' Higginbottom
- Obey the Law as Grace Chester
1932
- The Rider of Death Valley as Helen Joyce
- The Devil Is Driving as Nancy Evans
- The Expert as Nettie Minick
- Drifting Souls as Linda Lawrence
- Divorce In The Family as Mrs. Grace Shumaker
- The Crash as Marcia Peterson
- The Secrets of Wu Sin as Nona Gould
1931
- Seed as Peggy Carter
- The Age for Love as Sylvia Pearson
1930
- The Furies as Fifi Sands
- Temptation as Julie
- Once a Gentleman as Mrs. Malin
- Lovin' the Ladies as Joan Bently
1929
- The Gamblers as Catherine Darwin
- The Show of Shows as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
- Kid Gloves as Ruth
- Wedding Rings as Cornelia Quinn
- Her Husband's Women as The Painter's Jealous Wife
1928
- Object: Alimony as Ruth Rutledge
- On Trial as May Strickland
- Conquest as Diane Holden
- Coney Island as Joan Wellman
- Sally's Shoulders as Sally
1927
- French Dressing as Cynthia Grey
- Broadway Nights as Fanny Franchette
- New York as Marjorie Church
- Alias the Lone Wolf as Eve de Montalais
- The Gingham Girl
1926
- Fascinating Youth as Lois Wilson
- Let's Get Married as Mary Corbin
- North of 36 as Taisie Lockheart
- The Great Gatsby as Daisy Buchanan
- The Show Off as Amy Fisher Piper
- Bluebeard's Seven Wives as Mary Kelly
1925
- Rugged Water as Norma Bartlett
- Welcome Home as Nettie Prouty
- Irish Luck as Lady Gwendolyn
- The Thundering Herd as Milly Fayre
- The Vanishing American as Marion Warner
- Contraband as Carmel Lee
1924
- The Man Who Fights Alone as Marion
- Icebound as Jane Crosby
- Pied Piper Malone as Patty Thomas
- Another Scandal as Beatrix Franklin
- Monsieur Beaucaire as Queen Marie of France
1923
- Hollywood as Lois Wilson
- The Covered Wagon as Molly Wingate
- Ruggles of Red Gap as Kate Kenner
- To the Last Man as Ellen Jorth
- Bella Donna as Patricia
- The Call of the Canyon as Carley Burch
- Only 38 as Mrs. Stanley
1922
- Manslaughter as Evans (Lydia's maid)
- Without Compromise as Jean Ainsworth
- Is Matrimony a Failure? as Mabel Hoyt
- Broad Daylight as Nora Fay
- The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922 as Self
- Our Leading Citizen as Katherine Fendle - His Fiancee
- The World's Champion as Lady Elizabeth
1921
- What Every Woman Knows as Maggie Wylie
- The Lost Romance as Sylvia Hayes
- Miss Lulu Bett as Lulu Bett
- The Hell Diggers as Dora Wade
- Midsummer Madness as Margaret Meredith
- The City of Silent Men as Molly Bryant
1920
- The City of Masks as Miss Emsdale
- A Full House as Ottilie Howell
- Burglar Proof as Laura Lowell
- Thou Art the Man as Joan Farrant
- What's Your Hurry? as Virginia MacMurran
- Who's Your Servant? as Madeline Bancroft
1919
- Too Much Johnson as Mrs. Billings
- The Best Man as Celia Hathaway
- It Pays to Advertise as Mary Grayson
- Love Insurance as Cynthia Meyrick
- Gates of Brass as Margaret Blake
- A Man's Fight as Mary Tompkins
- The Drifters as The Girl
- The End of the Game as Mary Miller
- Why Smith Left Home as Marian
- Come Again Smith as Lucy Stevens
1918
- The Bells as Annette
- Prisoners of the Pines as Rosalie Dufresne
- Three X Gordon as Dorrie Webster
- The Turn of a Card as Cynthia Burdette
- Maid o' the Storm as Elaine Shackleford
- His Robe of Honor as Laura Nelson
- A Burglar for a Night as Janet Leslie
1917
- Alimony as Marjorie Lansing
- Treason as Floria Natarre
- A Man's Man as Dolores Ruey
- Alone in the World ... (Director)
1916
- The Gay Lord Waring as Helen Von Gerold
- The Silent Battle as Jane Loring
- The Pool of Flame as Princess Beatrix
- The Beckoning Trail as Mary Helton
- A Son of the Immortals as Joan Cameron
- The Morals of Hilda as Marion
- The Decoy
1915
- The Road to Paradise as Beatrix