Phillips Smalley
Birthday: 1875-08-06
Place of Birth: Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Biography: Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939) was an American silent film director and actor.
Movies
Drumming It In
Two employees of a drum manufacturer cause havoc when they visit their boss's country estate....
View Movie
Wasted Lives
After the death of her brother, "Tommy" Carlton makes the acquaintance of a neighbor, Harold Graypon...
View Movie
There You Are!
George is a clerk who captures a bandit and in return gets the boss' daughter....
View Movie
The Fatal Warning
When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughte...
View Movie
Temptation
A wealthy New York City stockbroker who sets out to prove that women are corrupted by wealth....
View Movie
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair ...
View Movie
Honeymoon Flats
Disappointed that her daughter has not married into money, a mother meddles trying to make the girl ...
View Movie
The Lawless Woman
Dancer June Page is charged with the murder of gangster "Honest Ed" Baker. Allan Perry, an ambitiou...
View Movie
Cheap Kisses
Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes wealthy,...
View Movie
The Midnight Special
A thrilling drama of young love and the great sacrifice made by railroad workers that we may travel ...
View Movie
Midnight Mary
While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the...
View Movie
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Alleged silent short adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, first mentioned in a 1966 copy of Films In R...
View Movie
The Spider and Her Web
The story concerns the reformation of a fast woman who runs a gambling establishment. Her one fear i...
View Movie
Night After Night
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl....
View Movie
Queen o'Diamonds
Chorus girl Jerry Lyon, is persuaded to pose as her look-alike, Jeanette Durant, a Broadway star who...
View Movie
A Heroine of '76
During the American Revolution, an innkeeper's daughter learns of a plot to assassinate George Washi...
View Movie
I Am the Law
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organi...
View Movie
The Pursuit of Hate
Diana Grave's husband has left her, preferring any life to that of living with a woman who is not co...
View Movie
Hell's Headquarters
Doctor Smith and his wife, Mary,depart a riverboat and are met by Phil Talbot. Phil informs Dr. Smit...
View Movie
Night Life of the Gods
A scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his d...
View Movie
The Dice Woman
Anita Gray is the spoiled daughter of a millionaire. Returning home from a party, her car breaks dow...
View Movie
Peacock Alley
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him b...
View Movie
Slightly Married
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for pros...
View Movie
Trimmed in Scarlet
Disapproving of the loose woman her father has married, Faith Ebbing leaves home and goes to work, b...
View Movie
True Heaven
Phillip Gresson is in the employ of the British secret service, while heroine Judith is a spy for th...
View Movie
The Lady from Nowhere
A young couple pose as criminals in order to get the goods on their crooked bosses....
View Movie
Cameo Kirby
Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villa...
View Movie
Idle Wives
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary ve...
View Movie
Sensation Seekers
The prohibition is in full swing and Egypt Hagen, a new woman, is the constant subject of controvers...
View Movie
Disgraced!
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make ma...
View Movie
Charley's Aunt
A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone....
View Movie
High Voltage
A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where t...
View Movie
Stage Mother
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls eve...
View Movie
Start Cheering
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him e...
View Movie
The Public Defender
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled...
View Movie
Liliom
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the you...
View Movie
Fate
Jack Norton had traveled the downgrade, had transgressed the laws of man, had trespassed the forbidd...
View Movie
The Preview Murder Mystery
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. A...
View Movie
How Men Propose
Three men in succession propose marriage to Grace Darling; she accepts all! Since they are roommates...
View Movie
The Country Doctor
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers qu...
View Movie
Daybreak
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy....
View Movie
Secret Sinners
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to anothe...
View Movie
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...
View Movie
The Lady Objects
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her...
View Movie
The Quitter
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the Frenc...
View Movie
High Stakes
High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The pict...
View Movie
Make Way for Tomorrow
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to t...
View Movie
Fine Feathers
The story of a male painter who rises to fame after completing two portraits of his maid, a woman wh...
View Movie
Lost Illusions
A marital romance in which a married artist woos the wife of another man....
View Movie
It's in the Air
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants ...
View Movie
The Rosary
Haunting and hypnotic, this artistic gem recounts the lyrics from a popular 1898 song of the same na...
View Movie
The Price
Pretty Ann, and Joe, the hostler, one day chance to meet. Strong is Joe, and simple, and Ann is shy ...
View Movie
Golden Harvest
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious ...
View Movie
Too Wise Wives
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame....
View Movie
Scandal
The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip....
View Movie
Money Talks
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still...
View Movie
Escapade
Upon release from the penitentiary, Phillip Whitney tells his friend, Bennie, that he is going strai...
View Movie
A Self Made Wife
Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon w...
View Movie
Stella Maris
Based on a novel by William J. Locke, Stella Maris is a remake of the 1918 Mary Pickford vehicle of ...
View Movie
On the Brink
A 1911 silent drama film written and directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber. Starring Lois Weber...
View Movie
The Face on the Barroom Floor
Bill Bronson is a likable young bank clerk, whose congenital thirst for liquor is kept under control...
View Movie
The Thirteenth Guest
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining gu...
View Movie
The Awful Truth
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings....
View Movie
From Death to Life
A chemist named Aratus invents a concoction that will turn creatures to stone, but only realizes the...
View Movie
Lost by a Hair
A group of jealous men conspire to defeat a romantic rival who has captured the attention of all of ...
View Movie
Sunshine Molly
A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee ...
View Movie
The Big Race
Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and ...
View Movie
Chained
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to div...
View Movie
The Accusing Finger
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly c...
View Movie
Broadway Daddies
Eve, a beautiful young nightclub dancer, turns down a string of wealthy and powerful suitors for Rob...
View Movie
Hop - The Devil's Brew
Lydia Jansen is happily married to a young customs inspector, but she harbors a dark secret. She is ...
View Movie
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control....
View Movie
A Feather in Her Hat
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identit...
View Movie
The Border Patrol
Texas Ranger Bill Storm is sent to El Paso to ferret out a gang of counterfeiters thought to be work...
View Movie
The Merchant of Venice
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to te...
View Movie
The Jew's Christmas
Early Lois Weber film. Isaac and his faithful wife, Rachel, deplore that in America their children ...
View Movie
The Twins
The baby daughter of Mrs. Norton, a widowed seamstress, dies. The sorrow-stricken mother gazes at th...
View Movie
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo contain...
View Movie
Murders in the Zoo
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, ...
View Movie
Eyes That See Not
A self-centred wealthy woman is transformed after she is confronted with the harsh reality of the li...
View Movie
The Broken Gate
In the small farming community of Spring Valley, young Aurora Lane has caused a scandal by bearing a...
View Movie
The Armorer’s Daughter
Set in Rome, during the feudal period. The heroine, the daughter of an armor manufacturer, is in lov...
View Movie
The Gray of the Dawn
A young society swain is stolen away from the young blind girl he loves by a rapacious queen of the ...
View Movie
Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet
A 1910 short directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Marion Leonard....
View Movie
Double Door
In 1910 Manhattan, Victoria Van Brett, a bitter spinster heiress lives an isolated life with her sis...
View Movie
Midnight Warning
Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air." ...
View Movie
False Colors
Famed actor Lloyd Phillips blames his infant daughter Dixie for her mother’s death in childbirth, le...
View Movie
Laugh and Get Rich
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've be...
View Movie
Two for Tonight
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days....
View Movie
Cocktail Hour
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebel...
View Movie
Made on Broadway
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway pre...
View Movie
Death Takes a Holiday
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the...
View Movie
Holiday
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's f...
View Movie
Yours for the Asking
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, i...
View Movie
Thirty Day Princess
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contr...
View Movie
Charley's Aunt
Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Braz...
View Movie
Cleopatra
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar....
View Movie
The Woman Accused
Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to...
View Movie
The Fate of a Flirt
Sir James Gilbert, a British peer, wagers that he can win the love of a particular young American wo...
View Movie
Tea For Three
Businessman Carter Langford is violently jealous of his wife's attentions to other men, particularly...
View Movie
Nobody's Bride
Jimmy Nevins--once wealthy and now engaged to Doris Standish--is reduced to poverty and jilted by he...
View Movie
Daughters of Today
Mabel Vandergrift moves from the country to the city and enrolls in an upscale college. She starts t...
View Movie
Single Wives
As her first wedding anniversary approaches, a young wife begins to believe that her husband doesn't...
View Movie
The Woman Between
Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home i...
View Movie
The Taxi Mystery
Young millionaire Harry Canby, returning from a cruise, finds a taxi without a driver on the docks a...
View Movie
The Power of a Lie
At a wild surprise party John Hammond signs a note for his struggling friend, architect Richard Burt...
View Movie