🎬 Director
Lois Weber
🎂 Born 12 June 1879 (age 60)✝ 13 November 1939📍 Allegheny City [now Pittsburgh], Pennsylvania, USA
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Popularity Score
21
Acting Credits
51
Directed
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.
Known For
Directed Films(51)
★ 6.3
The Blot
1921
Director
★ 5.6
Hypocrites
1915
Director
★ 7.0
Forbidden
1919
Director
★ 6.0
Shoes
1916
Director
★ 7.0
Suspense.
1913
Director
The Merchant of Venice
1914
Director
★ 6.7
Sensation Seekers
1927
Director
★ 7.0
The Dumb Girl of Portici
1916
Director
★ 10.0
A Midnight Romance
1919
Director
★ 5.9
Where Are My Children?
1916
Director
It's No Laughing Matter
1915
Director
The Doctor and the Woman
1918
Director
★ 10.0
The Angel of Broadway
1927
Director
★ 7.4
Home
1919
Director
★ 9.0
The Marriage Clause
1926
Director
Even as You and I
1917
Director
★ 6.0
From Death to Life
1911
Director
Saving the Family Name
1916
Director
The Spider and Her Web
1914
Director
The Price of a Good Time
1917
Director
★ 5.4
Too Wise Wives
1921
Director
★ 3.0
Betty in Search of a Thrill
1915
Director
★ 7.0
To Please One Woman
1920
Director
The Mysterious Mrs. M
1917
Director
★ 9.0
A Heroine of '76
1911
Director
★ 7.0
Lost by a Hair
1914
Director
★ 7.0
When a Girl Loves
1919
Director
The Eye of God
1916
Director
★ 5.0
Idle Wives
1916
Director
★ 4.3
What Do Men Want?
1921
Director
Sunshine Molly
1915
Director
The People vs. John Doe
1916
Director
★ 6.5
A Chapter in Her Life
1923
Director
Scandal
1915
Director
★ 6.2
The Price
1911
Director
★ 5.4
Discontent
1916
Director
★ 7.0
Fine Feathers
1912
Director
★ 10.0
Mary Regan
1919
Director
Hop - The Devil's Brew
1916
Director
★ 9.0
What's Worth While?
1921
Director
Captain Courtesy
1915
Director
Borrowed Clothes
1918
Director
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1917
Director
★ 5.5
How Men Propose
1913
Director
The Troubadour's Triumph
1912
Director
For Husbands Only
1918
Director
★ 5.3
White Heat
1934
Director
★ 7.1
The Rosary
1913
Director
The Jew's Christmas
1913
Director
★ 4.5
The Twins
1911
Director
★ 10.0
On the Brink
1911
Director
Full Filmography(21 films)
YearTitleRating
1913Suspense.★ 7.01914The Merchant of Venice—2009Early Directors on Directing—2016The Women Who Run Hollywood★ 7.11911From Death to Life★ 6.01914The Spider and Her Web—1911A Heroine of '76★ 9.01914Lost by a Hair★ 7.01916The Eye of God—1916Idle Wives★ 5.01915Sunshine Molly—1915Scandal—1911The Price★ 6.21912Fine Feathers★ 7.01916Hop - The Devil's Brew—1917The Hand That Rocks the Cradle—1913How Men Propose★ 5.51913The Rosary★ 7.11913The Jew's Christmas—1911The Twins★ 4.51911On the Brink★ 10.0