Philip Moeller

Philip Moeller (26 August 1880 – 26 April 1958) was an American stage producer and director, playwright and screenwriter, born in New York where he helped found the short-lived Washington Square Players and then with Lawrence Langner and Helen Westley founded the Theatre Guild.

He was educated at New York University and Columbia University.

Among plays he directed for the Theatre Guild were:

• The Adding Machine (1923)
• The Guardsman (1924)
• They Knew What They Wanted (1924)
• Ned McCobb's Daughter (1926)
• The Second Man (1927)
• Strange Interlude (1928)
• Meteor (1929)
• Dynamo (1929)
• Hotel Universe (1930)
• Elizabeth the Queen (1930)
• Mourning Becomes Electra (1931 - its first production)
• Biography by S. N. Behrman (1932)
• Ah, Wilderness! (1933)
• End of Summer (1936)

• Helena's Husband (1915) one-act play for Washington Square Players on its opening night 4 October 1915
• Madame Sand - a biographical comedy (1917)
• The Roadhouse in Arden (1917)
• Pokey (1918)
• Two blind beggars and one less blind: a tragic comedy in one act (1918)
• Sophie - a comedy (1919)
• Caprice - adaptation of three-act play by Austrian writer Sil-Vara (pseudonym of Geza Silberer) in 1929.

This filmography is believed to be complete.

• The Age of Innocence (1934) (director)
• Break of Hearts 1935 (director)