Biography
Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939) 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. He enrolled at Balliol College, Oxford in 1886.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.Smalley was married to actress, writer, director, and producer Lois Weber from April 29, 1904, to 1922. 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.After their divorce in 1922, he married Phyllis Lorraine Ephlin, and they remained together until his death.
Filmography
all 128
Movies 128
Director 27
Producer 4
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The Lady Objects (1938)
I Am the Law (1938)
Start Cheering (1938)
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Man Of The People (1937)
The Accusing Finger (1936)
The Country Doctor (1936)
The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)
A Feather in Her Hat (1935)
It's in the Air (1935)
Night Life of the Gods (1935)
Desirable (1934)
Chained (1934)
Double Door (1934)
The Big Race (1934)
The Quitter (1934)
Secret Sinners (1933)
Stage Mother (1933)
Golden Harvest (1933)
Disgraced! (1933)
Midnight Mary (1933)
Murders in the Zoo (1933)
Midnight Warning (1932)
Night After Night (1932)
Slightly Married (1932)
The Face on the Barroom Floor (1932)
The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
Hell's Headquarters (1932)
Escapade (1932)
Murder at Dawn (1932)
The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
High Stakes (1931)
The Lady from Nowhere (1931)
The Public Defender (1931)
The Lady Who Dared (1931)
The Lawless Woman (1931)
Daybreak (1931)
Laugh and Get Rich (1931)
Charley's Aunt (1930)
Midnight Special (1930)
Liliom (1930)
Drumming It In (1930)
Peacock Alley (1930)
High Voltage (1929)
True Heaven (1929)
The Fatal Warning (1929)
The Border Patrol (1928)
Broadway Daddies (1928)
Honeymoon Flats (1928)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Sensation Seekers (1927)
The Broken Gate (1927)
There You Are! (1926)
The Dice Woman (1926)
Money Talks (1926)
Queen o'Diamonds (1926)
Stella Maris (1925)
The Fate of a Flirt (1925)
Wasted Lives (1925)
The Awful Truth (1925)
Cheap Kisses (1924)
Cameo Kirby (1923)
A Self Made Wife (1923)
Trimmed in Scarlet (1923)
Temptation (1923)
Too Wise Wives (1921)
Forbidden (1919)
When a Girl Loves (1919)
Borrowed Clothes (1918)
For Husbands Only (1918)
The Doctor and the Woman (1918)
The Price of a Good Time (1917)
The Double Standard (1917)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1917)
Alone in the World (1917)
Wanted- A Home (1916)
Idle Wives (1916)
Saving the Family Name (1916)
Shoes (1916)
The Eye of God (1916)
Where Are My Children? (1916)
John Needham's Double (1916)
The Flirt (1916)
Hop - The Devil's Brew (1916)
The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)
Jewel (1915)
A Cigarette - That's All (1915)
Scandal (1915)
Betty in Search of a Thrill (1915)
Captain Courtesy (1915)
Sunshine Molly (1915)
The Caprices of Kitty (1915)
Hypocrites (1915)
It's No Laughing Matter (1915)
False Colors (1914)
Lost by a Hair (1914)
The Pursuit of Hate (1914)
A Change of Complexion (1914)
The Spider and Her Web (1914)
The Merchant of Venice (1914)
The Ring (1914)
In Wrong (1914)
The Jew's Christmas (1913)
Lost in the Night (1913)
How Men Propose (1913)
The Hall-Room Girls (1913)
Pearl's Dilemma (1913)
Suspense. (1913)
Will Power (1913)
The Rosary (1913)
Pearl As A Clairvoyant (1913)
A Night in Town (1913)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913)
The Troubadour's Triumph (1912)
Eyes That See Not (1912)
Fine Feathers (1912)
The Price (1911)
Lost Illusions (1911)
Fate (1911)
On the Brink (1911)
The Twins (1911)
From Death to Life (1911)
A Heroine of '76 (1911)
Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet (1910)
The Armorer’s Daughter (1910)
The Gray of the Dawn (1910)
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GenderMale
Birthday1875-08-07
Deathday1939-05-02 (63 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
RelationshipsLois Weber (1904-01-01 - 1922-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsPhillips Wendell Smalley, Philips Smalley, Phillip Smalley, Wendell Phillips Smalley
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