Lillian Hall-Davis
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1898-06-23
Day of Death
1933-10-25 (35 years old)
Place of Birth
Mile End, London, England, UK
Lillian Hall-Davis
Biography
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.
Acting
(2005)
Shepperton Babylon
as Herself (Archive)
(1931)
Many Waters
as Mabel Barcaldine
(1931)
Her Reputation
as Carruthers
(1930)
Just for a Song
as Norma Wentworth
(1928)
The Farmer's Wife
as Araminta 'Minta' Dench
(1928)
Tommy Atkins
as Ruth
(1928)
The White Sheik
as Rosemary Tregarthen
(1928)
Wolga Wolga
as Princess Zaineb
(1927)
The Ring
as Mabel
(1927)
Blighty
as Mrs. Villiers
(1927)
The Prey of the Wind
as Countess Elisabeth
(1927)
Roses of Picardy
as Madame Vanderlynden
(1927)
Boadicea
as Emmelyn
(1926)
(1926)
(1926)
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
as Gladys Clifton
(1925)
Express Train of Love
as Lissi
(1925)
Der Farmer aus Texas
as Alice
(1924)
The Unwanted
as Maraine Dearsley
(1924)
The Eleventh Commandment
as Marian Barchester
(1924)
The Passionate Adventure
as Pamela
(1924)
Quo Vadis?
as Licia
(1923)
A Royal Divorce
as Stephanie
(1923)
Married Love
as Maisie
(1922)
The Game of Life
as Rose Wallingford
(1922)
The Wonderful Story
as Kate Richards
(1921)
Love Maggy
as Alexandra Hersey
(1920)
The Honeypot
as Alexandra Hersey
(1918)
Little Women
as Beth March