Lillian Hall-Davis was a British

United Kingdom

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 actress during the silent

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 era.

The daughter of a London

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 taxi

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 driver, her films included a part-color version of I Pagliacci (1923), The Passionate Adventure

The Passionate Adventure

The Passionate Adventure is a British silent film drama, directed by Graham Cutts and starring Clive Brook and Alice Joyce. The film was adapted from a novel by Frank Stayton by Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Morton, with Hitchcock also credited as assistant director to Cutts.The Passionate...

(1924), Quo Vadis

Quo vadis

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(1925), Blighty

Blighty (film)

Blighty is a 1927 British World War I silent film melodrama, directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Ellaline Terriss, Lillian Hall-Davis and Jameson Thomas...

(1927), The Ring

The Ring (1927 film)

The Ring is a British silent, black-and-white film directed and written by Alfred Hitchcock.-Production background:The story focused on a love triangle between two men and a woman, and is the only film in his career for which Hitchcock took or was given a full writing credit...

(1927) and The Farmer's Wife

The Farmer's Wife

The Farmer’s Wife is a silent film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.It was based on a play of the same name by British novelist, poet and playwright Eden Phillpotts, best known for a series of novels based on Dartmoor, in Devon.-Synopsis:...

(1928), the latter two both directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

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. Hall-Davis also appeared in a comedy short film made in the Lee DeForest Phonofilm

Phonofilm

In 1919, Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patent on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofilm, which recorded sound directly onto film as parallel lines. These parallel lines photographically recorded electrical waveforms from a microphone, which were translated back...

 sound-on-film process, As We Lie (1927), co-starring and directed by Miles Mander

Miles Mander

Miles Mander , born Lionel Henry Mander , was a well-known and versatile English character actor of the early Hollywood cinema, also a film director and producer, and a playwright and novelist.-Early life:Miles Mander was the second son of Theodore Mander, builder of Wightwick Manor, of the prominent...

.

She failed to make the transition to talkies and killed herself

Suicide

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 at home in Golders Green

Golders Green

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 by turning on the gas and cutting her own throat.

Selected filmography

• The Admirable Crichton
  The Admirable Crichton (1918 film)
  The Admirable Crichton is a 1918 British silent comedy film directed by G.B. Samuelson and starring Basil Gill, Mary Dibley and James Lindsay. It was based on the 1902 play The Admirable Crichton by J.M. Barrie...
  
  (1918)
• Ernest Maltravers
  Ernest Maltravers (1920 film)
  Ernest Maltravers is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Jack Denton and starring Cowley Wright, Lillian Hall-Davis and Gordon Hopkirk...
  
  (1920)
• The Honeypot (1920)
• Love Maggy (1921)
• The Wonderful Story
  The Wonderful Story (1922 film)
  The Wonderful Story is a 1922 British drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Herbert Langley and Olaf Hytten. The fiancee of a farmer falls in love with his brother. It was based on the novel The Wonderful Story by I.A.R. Wylie...
  
  (1922)
• The Faithful Heart
  The Faithful Heart (1922 film)
  The Faithful Heart is a 1922 British drama film directed by Fred Paul and starring Owen Nares, Lillian Hall-Davis and Cathleen Nesbitt. It was an adaptation of the play The Faithful Heart by Monckton Hoffe.-Cast:* Owen Nares - Waverley Ango...
  
  (1922)
• Brown Sugar
  Brown Sugar (1922 film)
  Brown Sugar is a 1922 British silent romance film directed by Fred Paul and starring Owen Nares, Lillian Hall-Davis and Eric Lewis. It was based on a play by Lady Arthur Lever.-Cast:* Owen Nares - Lord Sloane* Lillian Hall-Davis - Stella Deering...
  
  (1922)
• Stable Companions (1922)
• The Game of Life (1922)
• If Four Walls Told
  If Four Walls Told
  If Four Walls Told is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Fred Paul and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Fred Paul and Campbell Gullan...
  
  (1922)
• The Right to Strike
  The Right to Strike
  The Right to Strike is a 1923 British silent drama film directed by Fred Paul and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Fred Paul and Campbell Gullan. It was based on a play by Ernest Hutchinson.-Cast:* Lillian Hall-Davis - Mrs. Ormerod* Fred Paul - Dr. Wrigley...
  
  (1923)
• I Pagliacci (1923) filmed partly in Prizmacolor
  Prizma
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• A Royal Divorce
  A Royal Divorce (1926 film)
  A Royal Divorce is a 1926 British historical drama film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Gwylim Evans, Gertrude McCoy and Lillian Hall-Davis. It was based on a play by C.C. Collingham and depicts the romantic relationship and political divorce between Napoleon and his wife Josephine...
  
  (1926)
• If Youth But Knew
  If Youth But Knew
  If Youth But Knew is a 1926 British silent romance film directed by George A. Cooper and starring Godfrey Tearle, Lillian Hall-Davis and Wyndham Standing. It is a love story spanning two generations...
  
  (1926)
• Roses of Picardy
  Roses of Picardy
  Roses of Picardy is a wartime ballad written by lyricist Frederick Weatherly while he was an army officer in 1916. Set to music by Haydn Wood, it was one of the most famous songs from World War I....
  
  (1927)
• The Prey of the Wind (1927)
• The Ring (1927)
• Boadicea
  Boadicea (film)
  Boadicea is a 1928 British historical film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Lillian Hall-Davis and Clifford McLaglen...
  
  (1928)
• The White Sheik
  The White Sheik (1928 film)
  The White Sheik is a 1928 British adventure film directed by Harley Knoles and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Jameson Thomas and Warwick Ward. It was based on the novel King's Mate by Rosita Forbes.-Cast:* Lillian Hall-Davis - Rosemary Tregarthen...
  
  (1928)
• The Farmer's Wife
  The Farmer's Wife
  The Farmer’s Wife is a silent film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.It was based on a play of the same name by British novelist, poet and playwright Eden Phillpotts, best known for a series of novels based on Dartmoor, in Devon.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1928)
• Tommy Atkins
  Tommy Atkins (film)
  Tommy Atkins is a 1928 British drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Henry Victor and Walter Byron. It was based on a play by Ian Hay and Ben Landeck...
  
  (1928)
• Wolga Wolga (1928)
• Just for a Song
  Just for a Song
  Just for a Song is a 1930 British musical film directed by Gareth Gundrey and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Roy Royston and Constance Carpenter.-Main cast:* Lillian Hall-Davis - Norma Wentworth* Roy Royston - Jack* Constance Carpenter - Jill...
  
  (1930)
• Her Reputation
  Her Reputation
  Her Reputation is a 1931 British comedy film directed by Sidney Morgan and starring Iris Hoey, Frank Cellier, Lillian Hall-Davis and Malcolm Tearle. It was based on the play Passing Brompton Road by Jevan Brandon-Thomas...
  
  (1931)
• Many Waters
  Many Waters (film)
  Many Waters is a 1931 British romance film directed by Milton Rosmer and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Arthur Margetson and Elizabeth Allan. It was based on a play by Leon M. Lion. An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth...
  
  (1931)

External links

• Hall-Davis, Lilian (1897-1933) (BFI
  British Film Institute
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