Phillips Smalley

Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939) was an American silent film director and actor.

Phillips Smalley
Smalley in 1915
Born	August 7, 1865 Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died	May 2, 1939 (aged 73) Hollywood, California, United States
Occupation	Actor, film director
Years active	1910-1939
Spouse(s)	Lois Weber, 1904-1922 Phyllis Lorraine Ephlin, 1926-1939

Biography

Born in Brooklyn, New York, 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.[1] 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.

Phillips Smalley died in 1939 and is interred next to his second wife Phyllis Lorraine Ephlin in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills.

Selected filmography

• Leaves in the Storm (1912)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913)
• Will Power (1913)
• Suspense (1913)
• The Merchant of Venice (1914)
• Jewel (1915)
• Where Are My Children? (1916)
• The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)
• The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1917)
• The Double Standard (1917)
• For Husbands Only (1918)
• Forbidden (1919)
• When a Girl Loves (1919)
• Too Wise Wives (1921)
• Trimmed in Scarlet (1923)
• Cameo Kirby (1923)
• Flaming Youth (1923)
• The Self-Made Wife (1923)
• Temptation (1923)
• Single Wives (1924)
• Daughters of Today (1924)
• The Fate of a Flirt (1925)
• Charley's Aunt (1925)
• Stella Maris (1925)
• Wandering Footsteps (1925)
• Soul Mates (1925)
• Queen o'Diamonds (1926)
• The Broken Gate (1927)
• Sensation Seekers (1927)
• The Irresistible Lover (1927)
• Stage Kisses (1927)
• Man Crazy (1927)
• The Dice Woman (1928)
• Sinners in Love (1928)
• Romance of the Underworld (1928)
• Honeymoon Flats (1928)
• High Voltage (1929)
• The Racketeer (1929)
• The Aviator (1929)
• The Midnight Special (1930)
• High Stakes (1931)
• The Lawless Woman (1931)
• New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1931)
• Escapade (1932)
• The Face on the Barroom Floor (1932)
• Cocktail Hour (1933)
• Secret Sinners (1933)
• It's in the Air (1935)
• A Day at the Races (1937)
• Second Honeymoon (1937)
• Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
• The Lady Objects (1938)

References

1. Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: “Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871–1920.” Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010. Illinois Department of Public Health records. "Marriage Records, 1871–present." Division of Vital Records, Springfield, Illinois.

External links

• Phillips Smalley at IMDb
• Phillips Smalley at the Internet Broadway Database
• Phillips Smalley at Find a Grave