Lillian Hall-Davis
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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 by turning on the gas oven and cutting her own throat at home in the Golders Green area of London. She was 35.
Acting
Movie
The Ring
as Mabel
1927
Movie
The Farmer's Wife
as Araminta 'Minta' Dench
1928
Movie
Quo Vadis?
as Licia
1924
Movie
The Prey of the Wind
as Countess Elisabeth
1927
Movie
The Passionate Adventure
as Pamela
1924
Movie
Shepperton Babylon
as Herself (Archive)
2005
Movie
Love is Blind
1926
Movie
Married Love
as Maisie
1923
Movie
A Royal Divorce
as Stephanie
1923
Movie
The Unwanted
as Maraine Dearsley
1924
Movie
The Eleventh Commandment
as Marian Barchester
1924
Movie
Express Train of Love
as Lissi
1925
Movie
Blighty
as Mrs. Villiers
1927
Movie
Boadicea
as Emmelyn
1927
Movie
Just for a Song
as Norma Wentworth
1930
Movie
Many Waters
as Mabel Barcaldine
1931
Movie
Her Reputation
as Carruthers
1931
Movie
Wolga Wolga
as Princess Zaineb
1928
Movie
Der Farmer aus Texas
as Alice
1925
Movie
Adventure Mad
as Gladys Clifton
1926
Movie
The Wonderful Story
as Kate Richards
1922
Movie
The White Sheik
as Rosemary Tregarthen
1928
Movie
Nitchevo
1926
Movie
Tommy Atkins
as Ruth
1928