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

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Phillips Smalley
Smalley in 1915
Born	Wendell Phillips Smalley (1865-08-07)August 7, 1865 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died	May 2, 1939(1939-05-02) (aged 73) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, film director
Years active	1910-1939
Spouse(s)	Lois Weber ​ ​ (m. 1904; div. 1922)​ Phyllis Lorraine Ephlin, 1926-1939
Relatives	Wendell Phillips (grandfather)

Biography

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.[1][2][3] He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1886.[4]

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.[5] 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.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

References

External links

• Phillips Smalley at IMDb
• Phillips Smalley at the Internet Broadway Database

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Phillips Smalley (7 de agosto de 1875 – 2 de mayo de 1939) fue un prolífico actor y director cinematográfico estadounidense de la época del cine mudo.

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