Doris Lloyd
Doris Lloyd ( born July 3, 1896 in Liverpool, England as Hessy Doris Lloyd, † May 21, 1968 in Santa Barbara, California ) was a British character actress in film, television and theater. She played from the 1920s to the 1960s in some 200 British and American cinema and television productions. Among roles in films such as Lullaby, Tarzan, the Ape Man, My name is Julia Ross, The Double Life of Walter Mitty or The Time Machine.
Life and career
Doris Lloyd, born 1896 in Liverpool, had their first appearances as an actress in 1914 with the Liverpool Repertory Theatre Company. From 1916 to 1925 she appeared in her home on a regular basis in well-known stage plays. In 1920, she entrusted moreover, the British director George Dewhurst with the lead role in his thriller The Shadow Between. In 1922 she played in England another starring role in the silent film Love's Influence of director Edward Gordon.
From the original invitation of sister Melba, to visit them in 1925 in the United States was more. Doris Lloyd decided to settle in California and to venture a career as an actress in Hollywood productions. That same year, she starred in Frank Borzage's drama film The Lady her first supporting role in a U.S. feature film. As a formally trained stage actress in Hollywood, she found quickly a high acceptance and a year later she played in Tod Browning's crime drama The Raven of London next to silent film stars such as Lon Chaney Sr., Owen Moore and Renee Adoree. From 1926 to the workload of five to six rolls per year for Doris Lloyd for presentations on the big screen was not uncommon.
In 1930 it occupied the director Dorothy Arzner in the role of Mrs. Ashmore in her film drama Lullaby on the side of screen icons such as Ruth Chatterton and Fredric March. In WS Van Dyke film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs classic Tarzan, the Ape Man, she played in 1932 colleagues ensemble of well-known actors like Neil Hamilton, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith and Johnny Weissmuller.
With their experience and background as a serious stage actress Doris Lloyd was a rewarding occupation for dramas, crime films and the genre of the fantastic film for renowned directors. She played in the 1930s and 1940s character roles in several classic films, including 1933, Clarence Brown Drama A man walks his way, 1935 in Frank Lloyd adventure film Mutiny on the Bounty, and in Henry Hathaway's film adaptation of the Maurier 's novel Peter Ibbetson. Lloyd 1936 was also seen in John Ford's historical film Mary of Scotland, and 1939 in the costume drama The Private Lives of Queen by Michael Curtiz. In the 1940s, followed by a series of appearances in films of the horror genre as in Victor Fleming's film adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - substance in doctor and demon in George Waggners adapatation of The Wolf Man or Ford Beebe continued The Invisible takes revenge. Subsequently, she also played in the genre of film noir as in Robert Siodmak's Witness sought in Jean Negulescos Three strangers or in Joseph H. Lewis Mystery Drama My Name is Julia Ross.
In 1947, she embodied in Norman Z. McLeod turbulent comedy The Double Life of Walter Mitty, the role of Mrs. Follinsbee. In 1951, she lent in the Disney animated film Alice in Wonderland the rose her voice. In the 1950s, several appearances followed in different historical and adventure films, as in In the Shadow of the Crown, The Dauphin, The Black Shield of Falworth or The Swan.
In the 1960s, she was seen in a small but important character roles in Oscar-winning works such as George Pals H. G. Wells filming The Time Machine on the side of Rod Taylor as well as in the two - Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins films of Robert Stevenson and My Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise.
Doris Lloyd remained active until 1967 on the canvas. Already in 1950, Doris Lloyd had also successfully facing the television and played in well-known series. Belonged to her performances in the one-time new media The Bigelow Theatre ( 1950), Cavalcade of America (1953), The Lone Wolf ( 1954), Waterfront ( 1955), Ford Star Jubilee ( 1956), Suspicion ( 1958), The Betty Hutton Show ( 1959), Alcoa presents: One Step Beyond (1960 ), The Best of the post ( 1961 ), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1962), Thriller ( 1962), arrest and Trial ( 1963) or crook against crook (1965).
Doris Lloyd was since she moved to the U.S. in 1925, a very popular radio, cinema and television actor who was active on Broadway, including as Sybil Birling in the season 1947-1948 in the play An Inspector Calls and beyond also in particular in a number of editions of the Ziegfeld Follies popular.
On 21 May 1968, the versatile character actress died in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 71 years. Her grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County.