Lois Weber
Director
Biography
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.
Filmography
Suspense.
as The Wife 1913
How Men Propose
as The Maid 1913
The Women Who Run Hollywood
as Self (archive footage) 2016
Fate
as Flora Brown 1911
Idle Wives
as Anne 1916
The Rosary
as The Soldier's Sweetheart 1913
The Price
as Ann 1911
The Twins
as The Twin Sisters 1911
On the Brink
as Tess 1911
From Death to Life
as Aratus' Wife 1911
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913
The Spider and Her Web
as Madame DuBarr 1914
A Heroine of '76
as The Tavern Keeper's Daughter 1911
The Pursuit of Hate
as Diana Grave 1914
Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
as Mrs. Brown 1911
A Japanese Idyll
1912
Fine Feathers
as Mira, the Artist's Model 1912