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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.
1931
as Mabel Barcaldine
1931
as Carruthers
1930
as Norma Wentworth
1928
as Princess Zaineb
1928
as Ruth
1928
as Araminta 'Minta' Dench
1928
as Rosemary Tregarthen
1927
as Mabel
1927
as Emmelyn
1927
as Countess Elisabeth
1927
as Madame Vanderlynden
1927
as Mrs. Villiers
1926
1926
1926
as Gladys Clifton
1925
as Alice
1925
as Lissi
1924
as Licia
1924
as Marian Barchester
1924
as Pamela
1924
as Maraine Dearsley
1923
as Maisie
1923
as Stephanie
1922
as Kate Richards
1921
as Alexandra Hersey
1920
as Alexandra Hersey
1918
as Beth March