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.

Filmography

• 1931Her Reputation — Carruthers
• 1931Many Waters — Mabel Barcaldine
• 1930Just for a Song — Norma Wentworth
• 1928The Farmer's Wife — Araminta 'Minta' Dench
• 1928The White Sheik — Rosemary Tregarthen
• 1928Tommy Atkins — Ruth
• 1928Volga Volga — Princess Zaineb
• 1927Blighty — Mrs. Villiers
• 1927Boadicea — Emmelyn
• 1927Roses of Picardy — Madame Vanderlynden
• 1927The Prey of the Wind — Countess Elisabeth
• 1927The Ring — Mabel
• 1926Adventure Mad — Gladys Clifton
• 1926Love Is Blind
• 1926Nitchevo
• 1925Express Train of Love — Lissi
• 1925The Farmer from Texas — Alice
• 1924Quo Vadis? — Licia
• 1924The Eleventh Commandment — Marian Barchester
• 1924The Passionate Adventure — Pamela
• 1924The Unwanted — Maraine Dearsley
• 1923A Royal Divorce — Stephanie
• 1923Married Love — Maisie
• 1923Should a Doctor Tell? — Alisa
• 1922The Faithful Heart — Blackie Anderway
• 1922The Game of Life — Rose Wallingford
• 1922The Wonderful Story — Kate Richards
• 1921Love Maggy — Alexandra Hersey
• 1920The Honeypot — Alexandra Hersey
• 1918Little Women — Beth March
• 1918The Admirable Crichton — Lady Agatha Lasenby

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2005Shepperton Babylon — Herself (Archive)