Phillips Smalley
Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939) was an American silent film director and actor.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.281 |
| Birthday | 1875-08-06 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Phillips Wendell Smalley, Philips Smalley, Phillip Smalley, Wendell Phillips Smalley, |
1930
Drumming It In
7/1
Two employees of a drum manufacturer cause havoc when they visit their boss's country estate.
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Drumming It In
1925
Wasted Lives
10/1
After the death of her brother, "Tommy" Carlton makes the acquaintance of a neighbor, Harold Graypon, who invites her to a party. Tommy, who is a bit...
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Wasted Lives
1926
There You Are!
0/0
George is a clerk who captures a bandit and in return gets the boss' daughter.
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There You Are!
1929
The Fatal Warning
5/2
When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her...
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The Fatal Warning
1915
A Cigarette - That's All
0/0
A Cigarette - That's All
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A Cigarette - That's All
1923
Temptation
3/3
A wealthy New York City stockbroker who sets out to prove that women are corrupted by wealth.
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Temptation
1932
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
5.615/13
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal...
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1928
Honeymoon Flats
10/1
Disappointed that her daughter has not married into money, a mother meddles trying to make the girl unhappy with life in her new home, the economical...
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Honeymoon Flats
1931
The Lawless Woman
8/1
Dancer June Page is charged with the murder of gangster "Honest Ed" Baker. Allan Perry, an ambitious journalist at the dawn of his career, seeks at a...
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The Lawless Woman
1924
Cheap Kisses
10/1
Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes wealthy, Donald Dillingham causes even greater disapproval...
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Cheap Kisses
1930
The Midnight Special
10/1
A thrilling drama of young love and the great sacrifice made by railroad workers that we may travel in safety. (Print ad- Evening News, Tonawanda, N.Y...
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The Midnight Special
1933
Midnight Mary
6.88/25
While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affa...
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Midnight Mary
1913
The Picture of Dorian Gray
0/0
Alleged silent short adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, first mentioned in a 1966 copy of Films In Review. Recent scholarship argues this film never e...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1914
The Spider and Her Web
0/0
The story concerns the reformation of a fast woman who runs a gambling establishment. Her one fear is of death and her regeneration is brought about.
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The Spider and Her Web
1932
Night After Night
6.333/21
A successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl.
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Night After Night
1926
Queen o'Diamonds
8/1
Chorus girl Jerry Lyon, is persuaded to pose as her look-alike, Jeanette Durant, a Broadway star whose husband, LeRoy Phillips, is a diamond thief. Th...
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Queen o'Diamonds
1911
A Heroine of '76
9/1
During the American Revolution, an innkeeper's daughter learns of a plot to assassinate George Washington while he will be staying at her father's inn...
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A Heroine of '76
1938
I Am the Law
7.136/11
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
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I Am the Law
1914
The Pursuit of Hate
8/1
Diana Grave's husband has left her, preferring any life to that of living with a woman who is not congenial to him. Howbeit, her husband gone is a dif...
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The Pursuit of Hate
1932
Hell's Headquarters
4.333/6
Doctor Smith and his wife, Mary,depart a riverboat and are met by Phil Talbot. Phil informs Dr. Smith that Jessup, the only other white man in the vil...
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Hell's Headquarters
1935
Night Life of the Gods
7/1
A scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his discovery he becomes involved with a half naked lep...
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Night Life of the Gods
1926
The Dice Woman
7/1
Anita Gray is the spoiled daughter of a millionaire. Returning home from a party, her car breaks down and she is picked up by a stranger, who sells he...
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The Dice Woman
1930
Peacock Alley
5/4
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. Wh...
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Peacock Alley
1932
Slightly Married
6.333/6
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up...
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Slightly Married
1923
Trimmed in Scarlet
7/1
Disapproving of the loose woman her father has married, Faith Ebbing leaves home and goes to work, but she later steals $5,000 in Liberty Bonds to pay...
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Trimmed in Scarlet
1929
True Heaven
7/1
Phillip Gresson is in the employ of the British secret service, while heroine Judith is a spy for the Enemy. Hoping to gain possession of the usual Se...
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True Heaven
1931
The Lady from Nowhere
10/1
A young couple pose as criminals in order to get the goods on their crooked bosses.
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The Lady from Nowhere
1923
Cameo Kirby
6/10
Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his lo...
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Cameo Kirby
1916
Idle Wives
5/2
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of...
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Idle Wives
1927
Sensation Seekers
6.667/6
The prohibition is in full swing and Egypt Hagen, a new woman, is the constant subject of controversy in her religious small town. After a scandalous...
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Sensation Seekers
1933
Disgraced!
6.5/2
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets...
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Disgraced!
1930
Charley's Aunt
6.667/3
A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
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Charley's Aunt
1929
High Voltage
5.167/9
A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the ru...
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High Voltage
1937
Man Of The People
7/4
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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Man Of The People
1934
Desirable
7.333/6
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
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Desirable
1933
Stage Mother
6.333/3
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even bla...
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Stage Mother
1938
Start Cheering
6.875/8
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
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Start Cheering
1931
The Public Defender
6.4/5
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
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The Public Defender
1930
Liliom
6.824/17
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tri...
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Liliom
1932
Murder at Dawn
5.375/8
Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.
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Murder at Dawn
1911
Fate
8.125/4
Jack Norton had traveled the downgrade, had transgressed the laws of man, had trespassed the forbidden, and paid the penalty.
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Fate
1936
The Preview Murder Mystery
5.833/6
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuse...
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The Preview Murder Mystery
1913
How Men Propose
5.5/9
Three men in succession propose marriage to Grace Darling; she accepts all! Since they are roommates, the three discover their problem in short order;...
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How Men Propose
1936
The Country Doctor
6.5/4
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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The Country Doctor
1931
Daybreak
4.333/6
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
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Daybreak
1933
Secret Sinners
6/2
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that h...
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Secret Sinners
1927
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
7.815/896
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1938
The Lady Objects
5.7/10
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get h...
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The Lady Objects
1934
The Quitter
9/1
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles t...
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The Quitter
1931
High Stakes
3.75/4
High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars...
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High Stakes
1937
Make Way for Tomorrow
7.498/218
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
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Make Way for Tomorrow
1912
Fine Feathers
7/1
The story of a male painter who rises to fame after completing two portraits of his maid, a woman who later becomes his companion.
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Fine Feathers
1911
Lost Illusions
0/0
A marital romance in which a married artist woos the wife of another man.
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Lost Illusions
1935
It's in the Air
6.333/3
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, bu...
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It's in the Air
1913
The Rosary
7.333/3
Haunting and hypnotic, this artistic gem recounts the lyrics from a popular 1898 song of the same name. Weber’s stylistics, including circular matte s...
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The Rosary
1931
The Lady Who Dared
7/2
A blackmailer falls in love with his female victim.
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The Lady Who Dared
1911
The Price
5.5/2
Pretty Ann, and Joe, the hostler, one day chance to meet. Strong is Joe, and simple, and Ann is shy and sweet. As man and maid have done before, they...
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The Price
1917
Alone in the World
8/1
Bobby's mother dies and leaves him to care for the baby.
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Alone in the World
1933
Golden Harvest
6.5/2
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market...
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Golden Harvest
1921
Too Wise Wives
5.389/9
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
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Too Wise Wives
1915
Scandal
0/0
The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip.
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Scandal
1926
Money Talks
0/0
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury yach...
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Money Talks
1932
Escapade
7/1
Upon release from the penitentiary, Phillip Whitney tells his friend, Bennie, that he is going straight, and visits his lawyer brother John. Phillip l...
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Escapade
1923
A Self Made Wife
7/1
Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but C...
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A Self Made Wife
1925
Stella Maris
8/2
Based on a novel by William J. Locke, Stella Maris is a remake of the 1918 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name.
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Stella Maris
1911
On the Brink
10/1
A 1911 silent drama film written and directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber. Starring Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, and Charles De Forrest.
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On the Brink
1932
The Face on the Barroom Floor
5/3
Bill Bronson is a likable young bank clerk, whose congenital thirst for liquor is kept under control until he joins his wife Mary at getting blotto at...
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
1932
The Thirteenth Guest
5.238/21
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodi...
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The Thirteenth Guest
1925
The Awful Truth
7.5/2
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings.
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The Awful Truth
1911
From Death to Life
6/1
A chemist named Aratus invents a concoction that will turn creatures to stone, but only realizes the dangers of his creation when his wife falls victi...
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From Death to Life
1915
Sunshine Molly
0/0
A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee named "Bull" Forrest. (Note: multiple reels of th...
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Sunshine Molly
1914
Lost by a Hair
7/1
A group of jealous men conspire to defeat a romantic rival who has captured the attention of all of the ladies at a summer hotel. (Note: The majority...
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Lost by a Hair
1934
The Big Race
9/0
Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old m...
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The Big Race
1934
Chained
7.088/17
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose inter...
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Chained
1936
The Accusing Finger
5.75/4
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sente...
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The Accusing Finger
1928
Broadway Daddies
3.667/3
Eve, a beautiful young nightclub dancer, turns down a string of wealthy and powerful suitors for Robert, a poor but ambitious young man. What Eve does...
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Broadway Daddies
1916
Saving the Family Name
0/0
A chorus girl gains infamy after the suicide of her beau.
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Saving the Family Name
1916
Hop - The Devil's Brew
0/0
Lydia Jansen is happily married to a young customs inspector, but she harbors a dark secret. She is addicted to smoking opium or in slang parlance “ho...
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Hop - The Devil's Brew
1917
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
0/0
A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.
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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1935
A Feather in Her Hat
7/5
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney...
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A Feather in Her Hat
1928
The Border Patrol
10/1
Texas Ranger Bill Storm is sent to El Paso to ferret out a gang of counterfeiters thought to be working there and, on the way, gives a ride to New Yor...
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The Border Patrol
1914
The Merchant of Venice
0/0
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's fath...
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The Merchant of Venice
1912
The Troubadour's Triumph
0/0
Early Lois Weber film.
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The Troubadour's Triumph
1913
The Jew's Christmas
0/0
Early Lois Weber film. Isaac and his faithful wife, Rachel, deplore that in America their children are forced to work on the Jewish Sabbath. Leah and...
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The Jew's Christmas
1911
The Twins
4.5/2
The baby daughter of Mrs. Norton, a widowed seamstress, dies. The sorrow-stricken mother gazes at the empty cradle and decides to replace the departed...
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The Twins
1937
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
6.038/13
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its pla...
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
1933
Murders in the Zoo
5.906/48
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in...
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Murders in the Zoo
1912
Eyes That See Not
10/1
A self-centred wealthy woman is transformed after she is confronted with the harsh reality of the living conditions endured by the employees of her hu...
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Eyes That See Not
1927
The Broken Gate
7/1
In the small farming community of Spring Valley, young Aurora Lane has caused a scandal by bearing a son by townsman Lucius Henderson, who refuses to...
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The Broken Gate
1910
The Gray of the Dawn
7/1
A young society swain is stolen away from the young blind girl he loves by a rapacious queen of the demi-monde who is only out for his wealth…at first...
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The Gray of the Dawn
1910
The Armorer’s Daughter
8/1
Set in Rome, during the feudal period. The heroine, the daughter of an armor manufacturer, is in love with a humble tradesman. The resistance expresse...
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The Armorer’s Daughter
1910
Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet
7/1
A 1910 short directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Marion Leonard.
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Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet
1934
Double Door
7/15
In 1910 Manhattan, Victoria Van Brett, a bitter spinster heiress lives an isolated life with her sister Caroline. Her domineering urges go into overdr...
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Double Door
1932
Midnight Warning
4.556/9
Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air." The vanished man's relatives hire a detective, who...
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Midnight Warning
1914
False Colors
0/0
Famed actor Lloyd Phillips blames his infant daughter Dixie for her mother’s death in childbirth, leaving her in the care of his housekeeper, Mrs. Hug...
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False Colors
1931
Laugh and Get Rich
6/4
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
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Laugh and Get Rich
1935
Two for Tonight
7.667/3
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
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Two for Tonight
1933
Cocktail Hour
5.333/9
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined...
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Cocktail Hour
1933
Made on Broadway
7/3
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cul...
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Made on Broadway
1934
Death Takes a Holiday
6.265/49
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon...
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Death Takes a Holiday
1930
Holiday
6.25/24
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
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Holiday
1936
Yours for the Asking
5.333/3
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income....
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Yours for the Asking
1934
Thirty Day Princess
6.833/21
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly l...
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Thirty Day Princess
1925
Charley's Aunt
0/0
Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a...
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Charley's Aunt
1926
The Midnight Sun
8/1
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The Midnight Sun
1934
Cleopatra
6.043/92
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
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Cleopatra
1933
The Woman Accused
6/10
Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As Gle...
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The Woman Accused
1925
The Fate of a Flirt
8/1
Sir James Gilbert, a British peer, wagers that he can win the love of a particular young American woman for whom he has his heart set. Disguised as a...
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The Fate of a Flirt
1927
Tea For Three
9/1
Businessman Carter Langford is violently jealous of his wife's attentions to other men, particularly young bachelor Philip Collamore.
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Tea For Three
1925
Soul Mates
7/1
A man decides to live his life to the fullest in memory of his dead wife.
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Soul Mates
1923
Nobody's Bride
7/1
Jimmy Nevins--once wealthy and now engaged to Doris Standish--is reduced to poverty and jilted by her when he is befriended by Mary Butler, the leader...
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Nobody's Bride
1924
Daughters of Today
7/1
Mabel Vandergrift moves from the country to the city and enrolls in an upscale college. She starts to hang around with a "fast" crowd, and one night a...
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Daughters of Today
1924
Single Wives
8/1
As her first wedding anniversary approaches, a young wife begins to believe that her husband doesn't love her anymore, and she turns to a former suito...
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Single Wives
1931
The Woman Between
5.133/15
Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
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The Woman Between
1926
The Taxi Mystery
8/1
Young millionaire Harry Canby, returning from a cruise, finds a taxi without a driver on the docks and helps a young girl escape some ruffians who are...
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The Taxi Mystery
1923
The Power of a Lie
10/1
At a wild surprise party John Hammond signs a note for his struggling friend, architect Richard Burton, but later denies his presence at the affair in...
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The Power of a Lie
1927
The Irresistible Lover
8/1
J. Harrison Gray, a wealthy playboy and notorious womanizer, finally decides to find the "right" girl and settle down. He finds the right girl, Betty,...
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The Irresistible Lover
1923
Flaming Youth
3.75/4
When Mona Frentiss dies, she has her confidante "Doctor Bobs" watch over her family, especially her youngest daughter Patricia. The family has been ra...
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Flaming Youth
1928
Sinners in Love
8/1
Ann Hardy heads to the big city where she falls in love with Ted Wells, but she is heartbroken to learn he is just using her.
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Sinners in Love
1927
Man Crazy
7/1
A spoiled heiress is bored by her high-society crowd, and falls for a young truck driver. Her family plans to marry her off to a wealthy young man, bu...
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Man Crazy
1932
The Widow in Scarlet
8/1
A countess boasts that she can easily pull off a jewelery robbery. A professional jewel thief beats her to the punch, but then finds that his newfound...
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