Lillian Hall-Davis

Lillian Hall-Davis

Birth : 1898-06-23, Mile End, London, England, UK

Death : 1933-10-25

History

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.

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Lillian Hall-Davis

Movies

Many Waters
Many Waters
Mabel Barcaldine
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
Her Reputation
Her Reputation
Carruthers
A woman plans to boost her public profile by getting a divorce. She enlists the help of a male friend to act as co-respondent leading to a series of mix-ups and her eventual decision not to get divorced.
Just for a Song
Just for a Song
Norma Wentworth
A jealous agent uses a girl singer to break up a double act.
Tommy Atkins
Tommy Atkins
Ruth
A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
Wolga Wolga
Wolga Wolga
Princess Zaineb
The Farmer's Wife
The Farmer's Wife
Araminta 'Minta' Dench
Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
The White Sheik
The White Sheik
Rosemary Tregarthen
In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.
The Ring
The Ring
Mabel
Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
Boadicea
Boadicea
Emmelyn
The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.
The Prey of the Wind
The Prey of the Wind
A pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.
Roses of Picardy
Roses of Picardy
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
Blighty
Blighty
Mrs. Villiers
A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
Nitchevo
Nitchevo
Liebe macht blind
Liebe macht blind
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Gladys Clifton
Lord Ernest Clifton lives with his beautiful wife, Gladys, at Easton Lodge. He has lost immense wealth in the lap of his uncle's death. One day Lord Clifton receives a mysterious package with an even more mysterious letter from his uncle. Three cuckoo clocks that strike only once a month should show him the way to find the second part of the pot of gold buried somewhere. Ernest's thirst for adventure only awakens and waits for the first cuckoo clock to mark the room number of a hotel in Cairo, where the second cuckoo clock hangs.
Der Farmer aus Texas
Der Farmer aus Texas
Alice
Express Train of Love
Express Train of Love
Lissi
Silent romantic comedy set on a train.
Quo Vadis?
Quo Vadis?
Licia
"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel-- Re-created for your entertainment in the most colossal drama produced", reads an ad in the Daily Argus of New York. Unione Cinematografica Italiana's lavish production of the oft-told tale stars Emil Jannings as Nero.
The Eleventh Commandment
The Eleventh Commandment
Marian Barchester
An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise. Based on the play The Pillory by Brandon Fleming.
The Passionate Adventure
The Passionate Adventure
Pamela
A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.
The Unwanted
The Unwanted
Maraine Dearsley
A colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.
The Wonderful Story
The Wonderful Story
Kate Richards
A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.
Little Women
Little Women
Beth March
Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family.
A Royal Divorce
A Royal Divorce
Stephanie
Emperor Napoleon divorces his wife to marry an Austrian Queen and have an heir.