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Lois Wilson

Lois Wilson

Lois Wilson

1894-06-26

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

ACTING

Biography

A schoolteacher who became a stage actress (briefly), Lois Wilson entered films in 1916 at Paramount (her sisters, Diana Kane and Connie Lewis, also worked as actresses). Wilson played leading roles well into the sound era, and after she retired from the screen she worked sporadically in television and again appeared on stage.

Best known for:

Female

Bright Eyes

The Covered Wagon

Deluge

No Greater Glory

Miss Lulu Bett

Wedding Present

Manslaughter

The Philco Television Playhouse

Monsieur Beaucaire

The Vanishing American

The Devil Is Driving

Life Returns

The Crash

The Girl from Jones Beach

The Show Off

Born to Gamble

Bad Little Angel

Divorce In The Family

The Show-Off

The End of the Game

Hollywood

The Show of Shows

Lovin' the Ladies

The Expert

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Filmography:

A Son of the Immortals (1916)
APPEREAD AS:
Joan Cameron
The Silent Battle (1916)
APPEREAD AS:
Jane Loring
The Gay Lord Waring (1916)
APPEREAD AS:
Helen Von Gerold
The Pool of Flame (1916)
APPEREAD AS:
Princess Beatrix
The Beckoning Trail (1916)
APPEREAD AS:
Mary Helton
The Morals of Hilda (1916)
APPEREAD AS:
Marion
Alimony (1917)
APPEREAD AS:
Marjorie Lansing
Treason (1917)
APPEREAD AS:
Floria Natarre

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Maid o' the Storm (1918)
APPEREAD AS:
Elaine Shackleford
Prisoners of the Pines (1918)
APPEREAD AS:
Rosalie Dufresne
The Bells (1918)
APPEREAD AS:
Annette
A Man's Fight (1919)
APPEREAD AS:
Mary Tompkins
The End of the Game (1919)
APPEREAD AS:
Mary Miller
The Best Man (1919)
APPEREAD AS:
Celia Hathaway
Too Much Johnson (1919)
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Billings
Gates of Brass (1919)
APPEREAD AS:
Margaret Blake

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What's Your Hurry? (1920)
APPEREAD AS:
Virginia MacMurran
Who's Your Servant? (1920)
APPEREAD AS:
Madeline Bancroft
Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
APPEREAD AS:
Lulu Bett
The Lost Romance (1921)
APPEREAD AS:
Sylvia Hayes
Midsummer Madness (1921)
APPEREAD AS:
Margaret Meredith
What Every Woman Knows (1921)
APPEREAD AS:
Maggie Wylie
The Hell Diggers (1921)
APPEREAD AS:
Dora Wade
Manslaughter (1922)
APPEREAD AS:
Evans (Lydia's maid)
Broad Daylight (1922)
APPEREAD AS:
Nora Fay
The World's Champion (1922)
APPEREAD AS:
Lady Elizabeth
Without Compromise (1922)
APPEREAD AS:
Jean Ainsworth
The Covered Wagon (1923)
APPEREAD AS:
Molly Wingate
Only 38 (1923)
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Stanley
Bella Donna (1923)
APPEREAD AS:
Patricia
Hollywood (1923)
APPEREAD AS:
Lois Wilson
To the Last Man (1923)
APPEREAD AS:
Ellen Jorth
The Call of the Canyon (1923)
APPEREAD AS:
Carley Burch
Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)
APPEREAD AS:
Kate Kenner
Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
APPEREAD AS:
Queen Marie of France
Icebound (1924)
APPEREAD AS:
Jane Crosby
The Man Who Fights Alone (1924)
APPEREAD AS:
Marion
Pied Piper Malone (1924)
APPEREAD AS:
Patty Thomas
Another Scandal (1924)
APPEREAD AS:
Beatrix Franklin
The Vanishing American (1925)
APPEREAD AS:
Marion Warner
The Thundering Herd (1925)
APPEREAD AS:
Milly Fayre
Rugged Water (1925)
APPEREAD AS:
Norma Bartlett
Welcome Home (1925)
APPEREAD AS:
Nettie Prouty
Irish Luck (1925)
APPEREAD AS:
Lady Gwendolyn
The Show Off (1926)
APPEREAD AS:
Amy Fisher Piper
The Great Gatsby (1926)
APPEREAD AS:
Daisy Buchanan
North of 36 (1926)
APPEREAD AS:
Taisie Lockheart
Fascinating Youth (1926)
APPEREAD AS:
Lois Wilson
Let's Get Married (1926)
APPEREAD AS:
Mary Corbin
Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1926)
APPEREAD AS:
Mary Kelly
Alias the Lone Wolf (1927)
APPEREAD AS:
Eve de Montalais
Broadway Nights (1927)
APPEREAD AS:
Fanny Franchette
New York (1927)
APPEREAD AS:
Marjorie Church
French Dressing (1927)
APPEREAD AS:
Cynthia Grey
On Trial (1928)
APPEREAD AS:
May Strickland
Conquest (1928)
APPEREAD AS:
Diane Holden
Coney Island (1928)
APPEREAD AS:
Joan Wellman
The Show of Shows (1929)
APPEREAD AS:
Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
The Gamblers (1929)
APPEREAD AS:
Catherine Darwin
Kid Gloves (1929)
APPEREAD AS:
Ruth
Wedding Rings (1929)
APPEREAD AS:
Cornelia Quinn
Lovin' the Ladies (1930)
APPEREAD AS:
Joan Bently
The Furies (1930)
APPEREAD AS:
Fifi Sands
Temptation (1930)
APPEREAD AS:
Julie
Seed (1931)
APPEREAD AS:
Peggy Carter
The Age for Love (1931)
APPEREAD AS:
Sylvia Pearson
Divorce In The Family (1932)
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Grace Shumaker
The Expert (1932)
APPEREAD AS:
Nettie Minick
The Crash (1932)
APPEREAD AS:
Marcia Peterson
The Devil Is Driving (1932)
APPEREAD AS:
Nancy Evans
The Secrets of Wu Sin (1932)
APPEREAD AS:
Nona Gould
The Rider of Death Valley (1932)
APPEREAD AS:
Helen Joyce
Drifting Souls (1932)
APPEREAD AS:
Linda Lawrence
Female (1933)
APPEREAD AS:
Harriet Brown
Deluge (1933)
APPEREAD AS:
Helen Webster
In the Money (1933)
APPEREAD AS:
Mary 'Lambie' Higginbottom
Obey the Law (1933)
APPEREAD AS:
Grace Chester
Bright Eyes (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
Mary Blake
No Greater Glory (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
Mother
There's Always Tomorrow (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
Sophie White
Ticket to a Crime (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
Elaine Purdy
The Show-Off (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
Clara Harling
School for Girls (1934)
APPEREAD AS:
Miss Cartwright
Life Returns (1935)
APPEREAD AS:
Dr. Louise Stone
Born to Gamble (1935)
APPEREAD AS:
Paula Mathews
Society Fever (1935)
APPEREAD AS:
Portia Prouty
Your Uncle Dudley (1935)
APPEREAD AS:
Christine Saunders
Wedding Present (1936)
APPEREAD AS:
Laura Dodacker
Laughing at Trouble (1936)
APPEREAD AS:
Alice Mathews
Bad Little Angel (1939)
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Ellen Creighton
Nobody's Children (1940)
APPEREAD AS:
Miss Jamieson
For Beauty's Sake (1941)
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Lloyd Kennar
The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Wilson