Lois Weber
Directing
30
Acting Credits
59
Directed
Biography
Lois Weber (1879 - 1939) was a true American auteur on par with D. W. Griffith. A director, actress, screenwriter, and producer of mostly silent films, she was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film (1914's The Merchant of Venice), the first American woman director to own her own film studio, and one of the first film directors to experiment with sound. Weber pioneered the split-screen technique in the 1913 short film Suspense, and Hypocrites featured the first non-pornogr...
Known For
Filmography
The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Early Directors on Directing
2009
as Self
Alone in the World
1917
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1917
as Mrs. Broome
Idle Wives
1916
as Anne
The Eye of God
1916
as Renie
Hop - The Devil's Brew
1916
as Lydia Jansen
Scandal
1915
as Daisy Dean
Sunshine Molly
1915
as Sunshine Molly
The Spider and Her Web
1914
as Madame DuBarr
The Pursuit of Hate
1914
as Diana Grave
Lost by a Hair
1914
as Summer Girl
The Merchant of Venice
1914
as Portia
False Colors
1914
as Mrs. Moore
How Men Propose
1913
as The Maid
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913
Suspense
1913
as The Wife
The Rosary
1913
as The Soldier's Sweetheart
The Jew's Christmas
1913
as Leah - Isaac's Daughter
Fine Feathers
1912
as Mira, the Artist's Model
A Japanese Idyll
1912
Eyes That See Not
1912
as The Millionaire's Wife
A Heroine of '76
1911
as The Tavern Keeper's Daughter
Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
1911
as Mrs. Brown
Fate
1911
as Flora Brown
Lost Illusions
1911
as Grace - The Wife
The Price
1911
as Ann
On the Brink
1911
as Tess
From Death to Life
1911
as Aratus' Wife
The Twins
1911
as The Twin Sisters