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Phillips Smalley
(same as J. Phillips Smalley)

Born [?] 7 August 1875 or 13 June 1881 or 1882? in Brooklyn, New York, USA,
as [?] Wendell Phillips Smalley or Phillips Wendell Smalley?
Died [?] 2 May or 13 November? 1939 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Married writer and director Lois Weber, May 1906; divorced 1925; one child.
Married Phyllis Lorraine Ephlin, 1927; until Phillips’ death, 1939.

Phillips Smalley entered film work in 1911. He and his first wife, Lois Weber, wrote and directed many films for Universal in the 1910s.

References: Website-IMDb; Website-Wikipedia.