From Wikipedia 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.
Movie | Her Reputation | Carruthers | 1931-07-21 |
Movie | Many Waters | Mabel Barcaldine | 1931-11-01 |
Movie | Just for a Song | Norma Wentworth | 1930-03-11 |
Movie | The Farmer's Wife | Araminta 'Minta' Dench | 1928-03-02 |
Movie | Blighty | Mrs. Villiers | 1927-03-01 |
Movie | The Prey of the Wind | Countess Elisabeth | 1927-05-12 |
Movie | The Ring | Mabel | 1927-10-01 |
Movie | Boadicea | Emmelyn | 1927-09-05 |
Movie | Express Train of Love | Lissi | 1925-05-06 |
Movie | The Unwanted | Maraine Dearsley | 1924-04-22 |
Movie | The Passionate Adventure | Pamela | 1924-07-01 |
Movie | Quo Vadis? | Licia | 1924-10-01 |
Movie | The Eleventh Commandment | Marian Barchester | 1924-07-31 |
Movie | Little Women | Beth March | 1918-11-30 |
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