Lilian Hall-Davis

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Lilian Hall-Davis (born June 23, 1898 in Mile End , London , † October 25, 1933 in ibid ) was a British actress .

Life

Lilian Hall Davis (still without the hyphen) was born the daughter of a London taxi driver. She made her film debut in 1917 in a French film by René Hervil and Louis Mercanton . She played her first leading roles in 1922, including in Graham Cutts ' The Wonderful Story . One of her important early films is Alexander Butler's Married Love (1923), which preoccupied British film censors because of its sexual issues. In 1924 she made the film Marriage in Danger under Graham Cutts in Germany , where she met Alfred Hitchcock . She then got roles in several German films and played in the German-Italian large-scale production Quo Vadis? (1924). She had two of her best acting performances in the Hitchcock films The World Champion (1927) and The Farmer's Wife (1928). She had her last film appearance in 1931.

She was unable to continue her career in talkies and suffered from severe depression in the early 1930s. She committed suicide at her home in Golders Green at the age of 35 by turning the gas on and cutting her throat.

Lilian Hall-Davis was married to the stage actor Walter Pemberton; they had a son together.

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SURNAME Hall-Davis, Lilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Mile End , London , England , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1933
Place of death London , England , UK