Acting

Lillian Hall-Davis

Born — Died

1898-06-23 — 1933-10-25

Place of birth

Mile End, London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

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. Hal…

Known for

Film credits

1920s · 26 titles

The Farmer's Wife poster
5.6

Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.

The Farmer's Wife

1928

The Ring poster
5.9

Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.

The Ring

1927

Tommy Atkins poster
7.0

A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.

Tommy Atkins

1928

The Farmer from Texas poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Farmer from Texas

1925

Should a Doctor Tell? poster
10.0

A doctor learns his pregnant patient is engaged to his son.

Should a Doctor Tell?

1923

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love Maggy

1921

Nitchevo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nitchevo

1926

Married Love poster
10.0

aka Maisie's Marriage, based on Marie Stopes book, a fireman falls in love with a daughter from a large family. When she refuses to marry and have children, she is estranged from her family, and after being imprisioned after a failed suicide attempt becomes a maid. Controversial at the time for its views on marriage and birth control.

Married Love

1923

The Prey of the Wind poster
6.3

A pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.

The Prey of the Wind

1927

Quo Vadis? poster
6.3

"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel-- Re-created for your entertainment in the most colossal drama produced", reads an ad in the Daily Argus of New York. Unione Cinematografica Italiana's lavish production of the oft-told tale stars Emil Jannings as Nero.

Quo Vadis?

1924

No artwork available
10.0

A Lord who intervenes to save the mistress of a notorious playboy from a suicide attempt. After rescuing her, he eventually marries her, leading to a dramatic shift in her social standing and life.

The Honeypot

1920

The Wonderful Story poster
8.0

A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.

The Wonderful Story

1922

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Volga Volga

1928

No artwork available
9.0

Silent historical film depicts the significant events of Queen Victoria's reign through the experiences of three young girls.

The Game of Life

1922

Blighty poster
8.0

A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.

Blighty

1927

The Passionate Adventure poster
8.0

A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.

The Passionate Adventure

1924

Love Is Blind poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love Is Blind

1926

No artwork available
7.0

Silent romantic comedy set on a train.

Express Train of Love

1925

No artwork available
7.0

An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise. Based on the play The Pillory by Brandon Fleming.

The Eleventh Commandment

1924

No artwork available
8.0

A naval captain returns and jilts a socialite to take care of his bastard daughter.

The Faithful Heart

1922

The White Sheik poster
9.0

In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.

The White Sheik

1928

The Unwanted poster
10.0

A colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.

The Unwanted

1924

No artwork available
7.0

Lord Ernest Clifton lives with his beautiful wife, Gladys, at Easton Lodge. He has lost immense wealth in the lap of his uncle's death. One day Lord Clifton receives a mysterious package with an even more mysterious letter from his uncle. Three cuckoo clocks that strike only once a month should show him the way to find the second part of the pot of gold buried somewhere. Ernest's thirst for adventure only awakens and waits for the first cuckoo clock to mark the room number of a hotel in Cairo, where the second cuckoo clock hangs.

Adventure Mad

1926

Roses of Picardy poster
NR

In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.

Roses of Picardy

1927

No artwork available
9.0

The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.

Boadicea

1927

No artwork available
10.0

Emperor Napoleon divorces his wife to marry an Austrian Queen and have an heir.

A Royal Divorce

1923