Actor
Lillian Hall-Davis
June 23, 1898 · Mile End, London, England, UK
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.
Often works with
Jameson Thomas
3 titles together
The Farmer's Wife, The White Sheik, Blighty
Forrester Harvey
2 titles together
The Ring, The White Sheik
Gordon Harker
2 titles together
The Ring, The Farmer's Wife
Gibb McLaughlin
2 titles together
The Farmer's Wife, The White Sheik
Emil Jannings
2 titles together
Quo Vadis?, Love Is Blind
Charles Vanel
2 titles together
The Prey of the Wind, Nitchevo
Full filmography · 31
Many Waters
as Mabel Barcaldine
1931Her Reputation
as Carruthers
1931Just for a Song
as Norma Wentworth
1930Wolga Wolga
as Princess Zaineb
1928
Tommy Atkins
as Ruth
1928
The Farmer's Wife
as Araminta 'Minta' Dench
19285.6
The White Sheik
as Rosemary Tregarthen
1928
The Ring
as Mabel
19275.9Boadicea
as Emmelyn
1927
The Prey of the Wind
as Countess Elisabeth
1927
Roses of Picardy
as Madame Vanderlynden
1927
Blighty
as Mrs. Villiers
1927