Lillian Hall-Davis

Actress

Popular As Lilian Hall Davis

Birthday June 23, 1898

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Mile End, London, England

DEATH DATE 1933-10-25, Golders Green, Greater London, England (35 years old)

Nationality United Kingdom

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1898

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.

1923

Born Lilian Hall Davis, the daughter of a London taxi driver, her films included a part-colour version of 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."

1924

She had a lead role in a "lavish production" of Quo Vadis (1924), an Italian film directed by Gabriellino D'Annunzio and Georg Jacoby.

1927

Hall-Davis also appeared in As We Lie (1927), a comedy short film made in the Lee DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, co-starring and directed by Miles Mander.

1933

Hall-Davis did not make the transition to sound films; 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.