Lillian Hall-Davis
Also Known As: Lilian Hall Davis, Lilian Hall-Davis
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mile End, London, England, UK
Birthday: June 23, 1898
Deathday: October 25, 1933
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Ring
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-28
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The Farmer's Wife
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-24
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Liebe macht blind
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-08-16
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Married Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-01
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A Royal Divorce
Overview: Emperor Napoleon divorces his wife to marry an Austrian Queen and have an heir.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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The Unwanted
Overview: A colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-22
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The Eleventh Commandment
Overview: An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise. Based on the play The Pillory by Brandon Fleming.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-31
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Express Train of Love
Overview: Silent romantic comedy set on a train.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-05-06
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The Prey of the Wind
Overview: A pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-05-12
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The Passionate Adventure
Overview: A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-01
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Blighty
Overview: A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-01
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Boadicea
Overview: The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-05
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Just for a Song
Overview: A jealous agent uses a girl singer to break up a double act.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-11
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Many Waters
Overview: An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Her Reputation
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-21
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Wolga Wolga
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-15
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Der Farmer aus Texas
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-10-21
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Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-05-25
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The Wonderful Story
Overview: A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-05
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Little Women
Overview: Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-30
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Quo Vadis?
Overview: "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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1924-10-01
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Roses of Picardy
Overview: In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-01
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The White Sheik
Overview: In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-17
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Nitchevo
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-12-20
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Tommy Atkins
Overview: A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-18
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Love Maggy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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The Honeypot
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-30
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The Game of Life
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Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-01
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Shepperton Babylon
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-11
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