Question: Which film has the director who died first, Fury (1923 Film) or Leaves In The Storm?

She is identified in some historical references as" the most important female director the American film industry has known", and among" the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". Film historian Anthony Slide has also asserted," Along with D.W. Griffith, Weber was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies". Weber produced a body of work which has been compared to Griffith's in both quantity and quality and brought to the screen her concerns for humanity and social justice in an estimated 200 to 400 films, of which as few as twenty have been preserved. She has been credited by IMDb with directing 135 films, writing 114, and acting in 100. Weber was" one of the first directors to come to the attention of the censors in Hollywood's early years". Lois Weber( June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director. Weber has been credited with pioneering the use of the split screen technique to show simultaneous action in her 1913 film" Suspense". In collaboration with her first husband, Phillips Smalley, in 1913 Weber was" one of the first directors to experiment with sound", making the first sound films in the United States. She was also the first American woman to direct a full- length feature film when she and Smalley directed" The Merchant of Venice" in 1914, and in 1917 the first American woman director to own her own film studio. During the war years, Weber" achieved tremendous success by combining a canny commercial sense with a rare vision of cinema as a moral tool". At her zenith," few men, before or since, have retained such absolute control over the films they have directedand certainly no women directors have achieved the all- embracing, powerful status once held by Lois Weber". By 1920, Weber was considered the" premier woman director of the screen and author and producer of the biggest money making features in the history of the film business". Among Weber's notable films are: the controversial" Hypocrites", which featured the first full- frontal female nude scene, in 1915; the 1916 film" Where Are My Children?", which discussed abortion and birth control and was added to the National Film Registry in 1993; her adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's" Tarzan of the Apes" novel for the very first" Tarzan of the Apes" film, in 1918; and what is often considered her masterpiece," The Blot", in 1921. Weber is credited with discovering, mentoring, or making stars of several women actors, including Mary MacLaren, Mildred Harris, Claire Windsor, Esther Ralston, Billie Dove, Ella Hall, Cleo Ridgely, and Anita Stewart, and with discovering and inspiring screenwriter Frances Marion. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Weber was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960. <SEP> Fury is a 1923 American silent drama adventure film produced by and starring Richard Barthelmess. The synopsis of this film has a strange foreboding character concerning actor Tyrone Power whose character Captain Leyton dies of heart attack, leaving his son, called' Boy' played by Barthelmess, to carry on. In real life actor Power would die of a heart attack in 1931 in the arms of his own son Tyrone Power, the later film star. It was directed by Henry King and released through First National Pictures which was then called Associated First National. <SEP> Maurice Lehmann( 1895–1974) was a French actor, director and producer of the stage and screen. He starred in the 1923 film" Koenigsmark" in which he played the title role. In 1956 he was appointed President of the Jury in the Cannes Film Festival. <SEP> Seven films directed by King were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Henry King( January 24, 1886 June 29, 1982) was an American actor and film director. <SEP> Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States. He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum. He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019. He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004. <SEP> Leaves in the Storm is a 1912 silent film short directed by and starring Lois Weber. It was produced by Rex Motion Picture Company and distributed by the then new Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is preserved at the Library of Congress