Ellaline Terriss

Born: 1871-04-13

From Wikipedia Mary Ellaline Terriss, Lady Hicks (13 April 1871 – 16 June 1971), known professionally as Ellaline Terriss, was a popular English actress and singer, best known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies. She met and married the actor-producer Seymour Hicks in 1893, and the two collaborated on many projects for the stage and screen. Terriss appeared in over a dozen British films, generally in which her husband was involved as an actor, writer or director. These included the silent films Scrooge (1913), David Garrick (1913), Flame of Passion (1915), A Woman of the World (1916), Masks and Faces (1918), Always Tell Your Wife (1923), Land of Hope and Glory (1927). She made a successful transition to talkies, including Blighty (1927), Atlantic (1929), A Man of Mayfair (1931), Glamour (1931), The Iron Duke (1934), Royal Cavalcade (1935) and The Four Just Men (1939). She died in Hampstead, England, at the age of 100.


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Always Tell Your Wife

as The Wife - Mrs. Chesson
Released: 1923-02-10

A comedic short filmed directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock about an affair.

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Blighty

as Lady Villiers
Released: 1927-03-01

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

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Atlantic

as Alice Rool
Released: 1929-11-15

A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.

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Scrooge

as uncredited
Released: 1913-09-01

A 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles...

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Man of Mayfair

as Old Grace
Released: 1931-11-30

'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British...

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The Four Just Men

as Lady Willoughby
Released: 1939-06-01

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies...

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