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Lillian Hall-Davis
Actor
Born June 23, 1898Died October 25, 1933 (35 years)
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Lillian Hall-Davis (23 June 1898 – 25 October 1933) was an English actress during the silent film era, featured in major roles in English film and a number of German, French and Italian films.
Born Lilian Hall Davis, the daughter of a London taxi driver, her films included a part-colour version of I Pagliacci (1923), The Passionate Adventure (1924), Blighty (1927), The Ring (1927), and The Farmer's Wife (1928), the latter two both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who at the time considered her his "favourite actress." She had a lead role in a "lavish production" of Quo Vadis (1924), an Italian film directed by Gabriellino D'Annunzio and Georg Jacoby.
Hall-Davis also appeared in a comedy short film made in the Lee DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, As We Lie (1927), co-starring and directed by Miles Mander.
Hall-Davis did not make the transition to talkies; in 1933 her "sharp career decline and health problems" prompted her to commit suicide by turning on the gas oven and cutting her own throat at home in the Golders Green area of London. She was 35.
Lillian Hall-Davis (23 June 1898 – 25 October 1933) was an English actress during the silent film era, featured in major roles in English film and a number of German, French and Italian films.
Born Lilian Hall Davis, the daughter of a London taxi driver, her films included a part-colour version of I Pagliacci (1923), The Passionate Adventure (1924), Blighty (1927), The Ring (1927), and The Farmer's Wife (1928), the latter two both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who at the time considered her his "favourite actress." She had a lead role in a "lavish production" of Quo Vadis (1924), an Italian film directed by Gabriellino D'Annunzio and Georg Jacoby.
Hall-Davis also appeared in a comedy short film made in the Lee DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, As We Lie (1927), co-starring and directed by Miles Mander.
Hall-Davis did not make the transition to talkies; in 1933 her "sharp career decline and health problems" prompted her to commit suicide by turning on the gas oven and cutting her own throat at home in the Golders Green area of London. She was 35.
Filmography
| 1928 | The Farmer's Wife · as Araminta 'minta' Dench |
| 1927 | The Ring · as Mabel |
| 1927 | Boadicea · as Emmelyn |
| 1927 | The Prey of the Wind · as Countess Elisabeth |
| 1927 | Blighty · as Mrs. Villiers |
| 1927 | As We Lie · as The Wife |
| 1926 | If Youth But Knew · as Dora |
| 1925 | Der Farmer aus Texas · as Alice |
| 1924 | The Passionate Adventure · as Pamela |
| 1924 | Quo Vadis? · as Licia |
| 1923 | Afterglow · as Ethel |
| 1923 | Married Love · as Maisie |
| 1923 | A Royal Divorce · as Stephanie |
| 1923 | The Knockout · as Polly Peach |
| 1923 | The Right to Strike · as Mrs. Ormerod |
| 1922 | The Faithful Heart · as Blackie Anderway |
| 1922 | The Wonderful Story · as Kate Richards |
| 1922 | If Four Walls Told · as Martha Tregoning |
| 1922 | Stable Companions · as Cast |
| 1922 | Brown Sugar · as Stella Deering |
| 1918 | Little Women · as Beth March |
| 1918 | The Admirable Crichton · as Lady Agatha Lasenby |