Ellaline Terriss

Ellaline Terriss

Born: April 13, 1871
Died: June 16, 1971
in Stanley, Falkland Islands
From Wikipedia

Mary Ellaline Terriss, Lady Hicks (13 April 1871 – 16 June 1971), known professionally as Ellaline Terriss, was a popular English actress and singer, best known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies. She met and married the actor-producer Seymour Hicks in 1893, and the two collaborated on many projects for the stage and screen.

Terriss appeared in over a dozen British films, generally in which her husband was involved as an actor, writer or director. These included the silent films Scrooge (1913), David Garrick (1913), Flame of Passion (1915), A Woman of the World (1916), Masks and Faces (1918), Always Tell Your Wife (1923), Land of Hope and Glory (1927). She made a successful transition to talkies, including Blighty (1927), Atlantic (1929), A Man of Mayfair (1931), Glamour (1931), The Iron Duke (1934), Royal Cavalcade (1935) and The Four Just Men (1939).

She died in Hampstead, England, at the age of 100.

Movies for Ellaline Terriss...

The Four Just Men
Title: The Four Just Men
Character: Lady Willoughby
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
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The Iron Duke
Title: The Iron Duke
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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Man of Mayfair
Title: Man of Mayfair
Character: Old Grace
Released: November 30, 1931
Type: Movie
'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Glamour
Title: Glamour
Character: Lady Belton
Released: June 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
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Atlantic
Title: Atlantic
Character: Alice Rool
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
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Land of Hope and Glory
Title: Land of Hope and Glory
Character: Mrs. Whiteford
Released: November 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A girl saves her fiancé's stabiliser plans from spies.
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Blighty
Title: Blighty
Character: Lady Villiers
Released: March 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
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Always Tell Your Wife
Title: Always Tell Your Wife
Character: The Wife - Mrs. Chesson
Released: February 10, 1923
Type: Movie
A comedic short filmed directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock about an affair.
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Masks and Faces
Title: Masks and Faces
Character: Member of Rich's Company
Released: March 1, 1917
Type: Movie
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Released: September 1, 1913
Type: Movie
A 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It starred Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge. In the United States it was released in 1926 as Old Scrooge.
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The World Famous Musical Comedy Artists Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss in a Selection of Their Dances
Title: The World Famous Musical Comedy Artists Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss in a Selection of Their Dances
Released: June 1, 1913
Type: Movie
The items presented are: “The latest American dance sensation THE BUMBLE BEE STING as being danced with enormous success nightly by SEYMOUR HICKS” “FACIAL EXPRESSIONS BY SEYMOUR HICKS – ‘some do it this way’ (the various ways of kissing)”; followed by “The various ways of taking medicine” “MISS ELLALINE TERRISS and original company in her well known dance from the Musical play THE MODEL AND THE MAID (‘If I were a boy’)”. “The ever popular ragtime ALEXANDER’S RAG TIME BAND by Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss”.