Phillips Smalley

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Phillips Smalley

Born	(1865-08-07)August 7, 1865 Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died	May 2, 1939(1939-05-02) (aged 73) Hollywood
Occupation	Actor/Director
Years active	1910-1939
Spouse(s)	Lois Weber, 1904-1922 Phyllis Lorraine Ephlin, 1926-1939

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

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smalley began his career in vaudeville and acted in more than 200 films between 1910 until his death in 1939. He began directing in 1911 and they made more than 300 films between then and 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

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913)
The Irresistible Lover (1927)
The Dice Woman (1928)
Romance of the Underworld (1928)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
The Lady Objects (1938)

References

↑ 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 the Internet Movie Database
Phillips Smalley ; IBDb.com
Phillips Smalley at Find a Grave

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Persondata
Name	Smalley, Phillips
Alternative names
Short description	American actor and film director
Date of birth	August 7, 1875
Place of birth	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Date of death	May 2, 1939
Place of death	Hollywood

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