Lillian Hall-Davis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Known For
Credits
- 1931 · Many Waters as Mabel Barcaldine
- 1931 · Her Reputation as Carruthers
- 1930 · Just for a Song as Norma Wentworth
- 1928 · Wolga Wolga as Princess Zaineb
- 1928 · Tommy Atkins as Ruth
- 1928 · The Farmer's Wife as Araminta 'Minta' Dench
- 1928 · The White Sheik as Rosemary Tregarthen
- 1927 · The Ring as Mabel
- 1927 · Boadicea as Emmelyn
- 1927 · The Prey of the Wind as Countess Elisabeth
- 1927 · Roses of Picardy as Madame Vanderlynden
- 1927 · Blighty as Mrs. Villiers
- 1926 · Nitchevo as
- 1926 · Liebe macht blind as
- 1926 · Die drei Kuckucksuhren as Gladys Clifton
- 1925 · Der Farmer aus Texas as Alice
- 1925 · Express Train of Love as Lissi
- 1924 · Quo Vadis? as Licia
- 1924 · The Eleventh Commandment as Marian Barchester
- 1924 · The Passionate Adventure as Pamela
- 1924 · The Unwanted as Maraine Dearsley
- 1923 · Married Love as Maisie
- 1923 · A Royal Divorce as Stephanie
- 1922 · The Wonderful Story as Kate Richards
- 1918 · Little Women as Beth March