Lillian Hall-Davis
Actor
- Born
- June 23, 1898 · Mile End, London, England, UK
- Died
- October 25, 1933 (age 35)
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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.
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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
The Ring
September 28, 1927
The Farmer's Wife
February 24, 1928
Quo Vadis?
October 1, 1924
The Prey of the Wind
May 12, 1927
The Passionate Adventure
July 1, 1924
Shepperton Babylon
August 11, 2005
Love Is Blind
August 16, 1926
Married Love
June 1, 1923
The Unwanted
April 22, 1924
Blighty
March 1, 1927
Many Waters
November 1, 1931
The Farmer from Texas
October 21, 1925
Acting32
- 2005Shepperton Babylon as Herself (Archive)
- 1931Many Waters as Mabel Barcaldine
- 1931Her Reputation as Carruthers
- 1930Just for a Song as Norma Wentworth
- 1928Volga Volga as Princess Zaineb
- 1928Tommy Atkins as Ruth
- 1928The Farmer's Wife as Araminta 'Minta' Dench
- 1928The White Sheik as Rosemary Tregarthen
- 1927The Ring as Mabel
- 1927Boadicea