About

Known credits:
28
Birthday:
1898-06-23
Place of birth:
Mile End, London, England, UK
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Lillian Hall-Davis

Overview

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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.

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1931 Many Waters Actor Mabel Barcaldine N/A
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1931 Her Reputation Actor Carruthers N/A
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1930 Just for a Song Actor Norma Wentworth N/A
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1928 Wolga Wolga Actor Princess Zaineb N/A
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1928 Tommy Atkins Actor Ruth N/A
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1928 The Farmer's Wife Actor Araminta 'Minta' Dench 58
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1928 The White Sheik Actor Rosemary Tregarthen N/A
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1927 The Ring Actor Mabel 58
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1927 Boadicea Actor Emmelyn N/A
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1927 The Prey of the Wind Actor Countess Elisabeth 59
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1927 Roses of Picardy Actor Madame Vanderlynden N/A
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1927 Blighty Actor Mrs. Villiers N/A
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1926 Nitchevo Actor N/A
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1926 Liebe macht blind Actor N/A
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1926 Die drei Kuckucksuhren Actor Gladys Clifton N/A
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1925 Der Farmer aus Texas Actor Alice N/A
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1925 Express Train of Love Actor Lissi N/A
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1924 Quo Vadis? Actor Licia 59
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1924 The Eleventh Commandment Actor Marian Barchester N/A
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1924 The Passionate Adventure Actor Pamela 58
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1924 The Unwanted Actor Maraine Dearsley N/A
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1923 Married Love Actor Maisie N/A
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1923 A Royal Divorce Actor Stephanie N/A
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1922 The Game of Life Actor Rose Wallingford N/A
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1922 The Wonderful Story Actor Kate Richards N/A
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1921 Love Maggy Actor Alexandra Hersey N/A
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1920 The Honeypot Actor Alexandra Hersey N/A
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1918 Little Women Actor Beth March N/A
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