Lillian Hall-Davis

Lillian Hall-Davis

Born: June 23, 1898
Died: October 25, 1933
in Mile End, London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Movies for Lillian Hall-Davis...

Many Waters
Title: Many Waters
Character: Mabel Barcaldine
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
bee
Her Reputation
Title: Her Reputation
Character: Carruthers
Released: July 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman plans to boost her public profile by getting a divorce. She enlists the help of a male friend to act as co-respondent leading to a series of mix-ups and her eventual decision not to get divorced.
bee
Just for a Song
Title: Just for a Song
Character: Norma Wentworth
Released: March 11, 1930
Type: Movie
A jealous agent uses a girl singer to break up a double act.
bee
Wolga Wolga
Title: Wolga Wolga
Character: Princess Zaineb
Released: November 15, 1928
Type: Movie
bee
Tommy Atkins
Title: Tommy Atkins
Character: Ruth
Released: May 18, 1928
Type: Movie
A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
bee
The Farmer's Wife
Title: The Farmer's Wife
Character: Araminta 'Minta' Dench
Released: March 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
bee
The White Sheik
Title: The White Sheik
Character: Rosemary Tregarthen
Released: January 17, 1928
Type: Movie
In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.
bee
The Ring
Title: The Ring
Character: Mabel
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
bee
Boadicea
Title: Boadicea
Character: Emmelyn
Released: September 5, 1927
Type: Movie
The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.
bee
The Prey of the Wind
Title: The Prey of the Wind
Released: May 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.
bee
Roses of Picardy
Title: Roses of Picardy
Released: April 1, 1927
Type: Movie
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
bee
Blighty
Title: Blighty
Character: Mrs. Villiers
Released: March 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
bee
Nitchevo
Title: Nitchevo
Released: December 20, 1926
Type: Movie
bee
Liebe macht blind
Title: Liebe macht blind
Released: August 16, 1926
Type: Movie
bee
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Title: Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Character: Gladys Clifton
Released: May 25, 1926
Type: Movie
Lord Ernest Clifton lives with his beautiful wife, Gladys, at Easton Lodge. He has lost immense wealth in the lap of his uncle's death. One day Lord Clifton receives a mysterious package with an even more mysterious letter from his uncle. Three cuckoo clocks that strike only once a month should show him the way to find the second part of the pot of gold buried somewhere. Ernest's thirst for adventure only awakens and waits for the first cuckoo clock to mark the room number of a hotel in Cairo, where the second cuckoo clock hangs.
bee
Der Farmer aus Texas
Title: Der Farmer aus Texas
Character: Alice
Released: October 21, 1925
Type: Movie
bee
Express Train of Love
Title: Express Train of Love
Character: Lissi
Released: May 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Silent romantic comedy set on a train.
bee
Quo Vadis?
Title: Quo Vadis?
Character: Licia
Released: October 1, 1924
Type: Movie
"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel-- Re-created for your entertainment in the most colossal drama produced", reads an ad in the Daily Argus of New York. Unione Cinematografica Italiana's lavish production of the oft-told tale stars Emil Jannings as Nero.
bee
The Eleventh Commandment
Title: The Eleventh Commandment
Character: Marian Barchester
Released: July 31, 1924
Type: Movie
An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise. Based on the play The Pillory by Brandon Fleming.
bee
The Passionate Adventure
Title: The Passionate Adventure
Character: Pamela
Released: July 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.
bee
The Unwanted
Title: The Unwanted
Character: Maraine Dearsley
Released: April 22, 1924
Type: Movie
A colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.
bee
Married Love
Title: Married Love
Character: Maisie
Released: June 1, 1923
Type: Movie
aka Maisie's Marriage, based on Marie Stopes book, a fireman falls in love with a daughter from a large family. When she refuses to marry and have children, she is estranged from her family, and after being imprisioned after a failed suicide attempt becomes a maid. Controversial at the time for its views on marriage and birth control.
bee
A Royal Divorce
Title: A Royal Divorce
Character: Stephanie
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Emperor Napoleon divorces his wife to marry an Austrian Queen and have an heir.
bee
The Wonderful Story
Title: The Wonderful Story
Character: Kate Richards
Released: May 5, 1922
Type: Movie
A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.
bee
Little Women
Title: Little Women
Character: Beth March
Released: November 30, 1918
Type: Movie
Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family.