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Lillian Hall-Davis

Acting

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.

Known For

The Farmer's Wife
5.7

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.

The Farmer's Wife

1928
The Ring
5.9

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.

The Ring

1927
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9.0

Silent historical film depicts the significant events of Queen Victoria's reign through the experiences of three young girls.

The Game of Life

1922
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7.0

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.

Her Reputation

1931
The Unwanted
10.0

A colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.

The Unwanted

1924
Many Waters
8.0

An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.

Many Waters

1931
Shepperton Babylon
8.5

A sardonic look at the dark secrets of the British Film Industry of the 1920s and 30s, where scandal and sordid behaviour was almost as rife as in Hollywood.

Shepperton Babylon

2005
Married Love
10.0

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.

Married Love

1923
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10.0

Emperor Napoleon divorces his wife to marry an Austrian Queen and have an heir.

A Royal Divorce

1923
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7.0

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Wolga Wolga

1928
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8.0

When a Lord and family are shipwrecked on an island their butler becomes a king.

The Admirable Crichton

1918
Quo Vadis?
6.3

"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.

Quo Vadis?

1924
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7.0

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.

Adventure Mad

1926
Roses of Picardy
N/A

In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.

Roses of Picardy

1927
The White Sheik
9.0

In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.

The White Sheik

1928
Little Women
N/A

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Little Women

1918
Blighty
8.0

A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.

Blighty

1927
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7.0

Silent romantic comedy set on a train.

Express Train of Love

1925
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9.0

The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.

Boadicea

1927
Der Farmer aus Texas
8.0

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Der Farmer aus Texas

1925