Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1898-06-23
Day of Death
1933-10-25
Place of Birth
Mile End, London, England, UK
Lillian Hall-Davis
Biography
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.
Filmography (32)
Shepperton Babylon
2005
Many Waters
1931Her Reputation
1931Just for a Song
1930Wolga Wolga
1928
Tommy Atkins
1928
The Farmer's Wife
1928
The White Sheik
1928
The Ring
1927Boadicea
1927
The Prey of the Wind
1927
Roses of Picardy
1927
Blighty
1927
Nitchevo
1926
