Lillian Hall-Davis

DOB: 1898-06-23

DOD: 1933-10-25

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.

Starred In

1927
Movie

The Ring

1928
Movie

The Farmer's Wife

1926
Movie

Liebe macht blind

1923
Movie

Married Love

1923
Movie

A Royal Divorce

1924
Movie

The Unwanted

1927
Movie

Blighty

1927
Movie

Boadicea

1930
Movie

Just for a Song

1931
Movie

Many Waters

1931
Movie

Her Reputation

1928
Movie

Wolga Wolga

1918
Movie

Little Women

1924
Movie

Quo Vadis?

1927
Movie

Roses of Picardy

1928
Movie

The White Sheik

1926
Movie

Nitchevo

1928
Movie

Tommy Atkins

1921
Movie

Love Maggy

1920
Movie

The Honeypot

1922
Movie

The Game of Life

2005
Movie

Shepperton Babylon

1922
Movie

The Faithful Heart