Lillian Hall-Davis
Actor
Biography
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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.
Filmography
The Farmer's Wife
as Araminta 'Minta' Dench 1928
Quo Vadis?
as Licia 1924
The Prey of the Wind
as Countess Elisabeth 1927
The Passionate Adventure
as Pamela 1924
Shepperton Babylon
as Herself (Archive) 2005
Liebe macht blind
1926
Married Love
as Maisie 1923
A Royal Divorce
as Stephanie 1923
The Unwanted
as Maraine Dearsley 1924
The Eleventh Commandment
as Marian Barchester 1924
Express Train of Love
as Lissi 1925
Blighty
as Mrs. Villiers 1927
Boadicea
as Emmelyn 1927
Just for a Song
as Norma Wentworth 1930
Many Waters
as Mabel Barcaldine 1931
Her Reputation
as Carruthers 1931