 | This article needs additional citations for verification .(July 2021) |
Phillips Smalley | |
|---|---|
 Smalley in 1915 | |
| Born | Wendell Phillips Smalley August 7, 1865 |
| Died | May 2, 1939 (aged 73) |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, film director |
| Years active | 1910–1939 |
| Spouses | |
| Relatives | Wendell Phillips (grandfather) |
Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939 [1] ) was an American silent film director and actor.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was the grandson of Wendell Phillips; he was the son of George Washburn Smalley, a war correspondent, and his wife Phoebe Garnaut, adopted by Phillips. [2] [3] [4] He enrolled at Balliol College, Oxford in 1886. [5]
Smalley began his career in vaudeville and acted in more than 200 films between 1910 and his death in 1939. He began directing in 1911 and made more than 300 films by 1921.[ citation needed ]
Smalley was married to actress, writer, director, and producer Lois Weber from April 29, 1904, to 1922. [6] They met in 1904 when Weber was acting in a theater where Smalley was stage manager. In 1908 Smalley and Weber began working for the U.S. division of Gaumont Film Company, where Smalley was an actor, and later a director. He is sometimes listed as a co-director with Lois Weber, and the extent of his contribution to her work is unresolved.[ citation needed ]
After their divorce in 1922, he married Phyllis Lorraine Ephlin, and they remained together until his death. [1]
James Parrott was an American actor and film director; and the younger brother of film comedian Charley Chase.
Edward Phillips Oppenheim was an English novelist, a prolific writer of best-selling genre fiction, featuring glamorous characters, international intrigue and fast action. Notably easy to read, they were viewed as popular entertainments. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1927.
John Malcolm Stahl was an American film director and producer. He is best known for his films such as Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Imitation of Life (1934), The Keys of the Kingdom (1945), and Back Street (1932).
William H. Daniels ASC was a film cinematographer who was Greta Garbo's personal lensman, serving as the cinematographer for such Garbo-starring films as Torrent (1926), The Mysterious Lady (1928), The Kiss (1929), Anna Christie, Romance, Grand Hotel (1932), Anna Karenina (1935), and Camille (1936). Early in his career he worked regularly with director Erich von Stroheim, providing cinematography for such films as The Devil's Pass Key (1920) and Greed (1924). Daniels went on to win an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on The Naked City (1948).
Arthur Hoyt was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 275 films in his 34-year film career, about a third of them silent films.
Florence Lois Weber was an American silent film director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She is identified in some historical references as among "the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". Film historian Anthony Slide has also asserted, "Along with D. W. Griffith, Weber was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies".
Joseph Henry Kolker was an American stage and film actor and director.
Montagu Love was an English screen, stage and vaudeville actor.
Lloyd Hughes was an American actor of both the silent and sound film eras.
Margaret Seddon was an American stage and film actress.
Sidney Bracey was an Australian-born American actor. After a stage career in Australia, on Broadway and in Britain, he performed in more than 320 films between 1909 and 1942.
Ernest Hilliard was an American actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1921 and 1947. He was born in New York City and died in Santa Monica, California, from a heart attack.
Maurice Elvey was one of the most prolific film directors in British history. He directed nearly 200 films between 1913 and 1957. During the silent film era he directed as many as twenty films per year. He also produced more than fifty films – his own as well as films directed by others.
Claude Benton Gillingwater was an American stage and screen actor. He first appeared on the stage then in more than 90 films between 1918 and 1939, including the Academy Award-nominated A Tale of Two Cities (1935) and Conquest (1937). He appeared in several films starring Shirley Temple, beginning with Poor Little Rich Girl (1936).
George Henry Irving was an American film actor and director.
Edward H. Griffith was an American motion picture director, screenwriter, and producer.
Fritz Kampers was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950.
Angelo Ferrari was an Italian actor known for his work in German cinema.
Tremlet C. Carr was an American film producer, closely associated with the low-budget filmmaking of Poverty Row. In 1931 he co-founded Monogram Pictures, which developed into one of the leading specialist producers of B pictures in Hollywood.
Harry Fischbeck (1879–1968) was a German-born cinematographer who emigrated to the United States where he worked in the American film industry. He was employed by a variety of different studios during his career including Universal, United Artists and Warner Brothers, but primarily for Paramount Pictures. One of his first credits was for the historical The Lincoln Cycle films directed by John M. Stahl.
Media related to Phillips Smalley at Wikimedia Commons
Works by or about Phillips Smalley at Wikisource | International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Artists | |
