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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. She was 35.
Birth Name
Lilian Hall Davis
Born
Thursday, 23 June 1898
Died
Wednesday, 25 October 1933
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock | Self | 2023 |
Many Waters | Mabel Barcaldine | 1931 |
Just for a Song | Norma Wentworth | 1930 |
Tommy Atkins | Ruth | 1929 |
The Farmer's Wife | Araminta Dench - Sweetland's Housekeeper / Araminta 'Minta' Dench | 1928 |
King's Mate | Rosemary Tregarthen | 1928 |
The Ring | Mabel - The Girl / Mabel | 1927 |
Boadicea | Emmelyn | 1927 |
Adventure Mad | Gladys Clifton | 1927 |
Roses of Picardy | Madame Vanderlynden | 1927 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock | Self | 2023 |
Many Waters | Mabel Barcaldine | 1931 |
Just for a Song | Norma Wentworth | 1930 |
Tommy Atkins | Ruth | 1929 |
The Farmer's Wife | Araminta Dench - Sweetland's Housekeeper / Araminta 'Minta' Dench | 1928 |
King's Mate | Rosemary Tregarthen | 1928 |
The Ring | Mabel - The Girl / Mabel | 1927 |
Boadicea | Emmelyn | 1927 |
Adventure Mad | Gladys Clifton | 1927 |
Roses of Picardy | Madame Vanderlynden | 1927 |
The Prey of the Wind | La comtesse Elisabeth | 1927 |
Blighty | Mrs. Villiers | 1927 |
Nitchevo | Sonia Cartier | 1926 |
If Youth But Knew | Dora / Doreen | 1926 |
Liebe macht blind | Evelyn | 1926 |
Der Farmer aus Texas | Alice | 1925 |
The Passionate Adventure | Pamela | 1924 |
Quo Vadis? | Licia | 1924 |
The Eleventh Commandment | Marian Barchester | 1924 |
A Royal Divorce | Stéphanie de Beauharnais | 1924 |
The Unwanted | Maraine Dearsley | 1924 |
Afterglow | Ethel | 1924 |
Married Love | Maisie Burrows / Maisie | 1923 |
The Right to Strike | Mrs. Ormerod | 1923 |
The Hotel Mouse | Mauricette | 1923 |
If Four Walls Told | Martha Tregoning | 1922 |
Stable Companions | 1922 | |
Brown Sugar | Stella Deering | 1922 |
Ernest Maltravers | Alice Darvil | 1920 |
Carry On | Lil | 1919 |
Little Women | Beth March | 1919 |
La p'tite du sixième | 1918 |