Lois Weber
Directing
Born June 12, 1879 in Allegheny City [now Pittsburgh], Pennsylvania, USA
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
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Early Directors on Directing
Self
White Heat
The Angel of Broadway
Topsy and Eva
Sensation Seekers
The Marriage Clause
A Chapter in Her Life
What Do Men Want?
The Blot
Too Wise Wives
What's Worth While?
To Please One Woman
Forbidden
Home
Mary Regan
A Midnight Romance
When a Girl Loves
Borrowed Clothes
For Husbands Only
The Doctor and the Woman
Tarzan of the Apes
The Price of a Good Time
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Mrs. Broome
Even as You and I
The Mysterious Mrs. M
The People vs. John Doe
Wanted- A Home
Idle Wives
Anne
Saving the Family Name
Shoes
The Eye of God
Renie
Where Are My Children?
Hop - The Devil's Brew
Lydia Jansen
The Dumb Girl of Portici
Discontent
Jewel
Scandal
Daisy Dean
Betty in Search of a Thrill
Captain Courtesy
Sunshine Molly
Sunshine Molly
Hypocrites
It's No Laughing Matter
The Opened Shutters
Lost by a Hair
Summer Girl
The Spider and Her Web
Madame DuBarr
The Merchant of Venice
Portia
The Jew's Christmas
Leah - Isaac's Daughter
How Men Propose
The Maid
Suspense.
The Wife
The Rosary
The Soldier's Sweetheart
The Troubadour's Triumph
Fine Feathers
Mira, the Artist's Model
The Price
Ann
On the Brink
Tess
The Twins
The Twin Sisters
From Death to Life
Aratus' Wife
A Heroine of '76
The Tavern Keeper's Daughter