Director Archives - Page 4 of 7

Elsie Wilson

Silent film actor, director and writer

The 1916 Motion Picture News Studio Directory credits Los Angeles native Ida May Park with twelve years of stage experience as a “leading woman in support of well-known stars” and with screen experience at Pathé and the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, where she was then employed as a scenario writer.

Kathlyn Williams

Silent film actress, director and writer

Lillian Gish

In 1920, Lillian Gish both delivered a landmark performance in D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East and directed her sister Dorothy in Remodelling Her Husband. This was her sole director credit in a career as a screen actor that began with An Unseen Enemy in 1912 and ended with The Whales of August in 1987.

Ruth Baldwin

Early film director, editor and writer

Cleo Madison

Theatre and silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director active in Hollywood during the silent era.

Lois Weber

Lois Weber was the leading female director-screenwriter in early Hollywood.

Maria Dronke

Maria Dronke made a significant contribution to the theatre in her adopted country of New Zealand.

Bathia Stuart

She was one of the first New Zealand women to enter the male-dominated field of film-making.

Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie

Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.