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Acting
June 23, 1898
October 25, 1933
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.

Herself (Archive)
2005

Mabel Barcaldine
1931
Carruthers
1931
Norma Wentworth
1930
Princess Zaineb
1928

Ruth
1928

Araminta 'Minta' Dench
1928

Rosemary Tregarthen
1928

Mabel
1927
Emmelyn
1927

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as Araminta 'Minta' Dench

as Rosemary Tregarthen

as Mabel
as Emmelyn

as Countess Elisabeth

as Madame Vanderlynden

as Mrs. Villiers


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as Alice

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as Marian Barchester

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as Maisie
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as Rose Wallingford

as Kate Richards
as Alexandra Hersey
as Alexandra Hersey

as Beth March
as Lady Agatha Lasenby