
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.

Shepperton Babylon
MOVIE • 2005

The Farmer's Wife
MOVIE • 1928

The White Sheik
MOVIE • 1928

The Ring
MOVIE • 1927

Many Waters
MOVIE • 1931

Little Women
MOVIE • 1918

Quo Vadis?
MOVIE • 1924

Married Love
MOVIE • 1923

The Passionate Adventure
MOVIE • 1924

The Wonderful Story
MOVIE • 1922

The Unwanted
MOVIE • 1924

Der Farmer aus Texas
MOVIE • 1925

Roses of Picardy
MOVIE • 1927

Blighty
MOVIE • 1927

Tommy Atkins
MOVIE • 1928

Love is Blind
MOVIE • 1926

Nitchevo
MOVIE • 1926

The Prey of the Wind
MOVIE • 1927