Doris Lloyd was born on the 3rd of July 1896 in Walton, Liverpool to parents Edward Franklin Lloyd, born in Holywell, and Hessy Jane McCappin with one of her grandfathers reportedly an amateur actor. She made her theatrical debut on stage aged 23 at the Liverpool Repertory Company and made her film debut in the silent crime film 'The Shadow Between' (1920), based on a novel by Silas Kitto Hocking. She appeared a number of times in London's West End at that time including 'Mr. Todd's Experiment' by Walter C. Hackett at the Queen's Theatre (1920) and 'The Smith's of Surbiton' by Keble Howard at the New Theatre (1922).
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| 'Is Zat So?' (1927) with Edmund Low & George O'Brien |
In the early 1920s, she travelled to the United States to visit her sister who had settled there, and as she found work as an actress, decided to also permanently settle there. Spending several years between 1916 and 1925 she would appear in Broadway theatre plays, notably a number of Ziegfield Follies editions, and spent some time on the road in touring companies. Later she decided on a film career, making her first US film in 1925 and was included in countless small parts as (British) charwomen, landladies and, occasionally, society matrons. Though mostly playing minor and supporting roles, she had a few highlights in her film career playing alongside Johnny Weissmuller, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi and Julie Andrews. She played the sinister Russian spy Mrs. Travers in 'Disraeli' (1929), Mrs. Cutten in 'Tarzan the Ape Man' (1932), the sympathetic thief Nancy in 'Oliver Twist' (1933), the school superintendent Miss Wetherby in 'Tarzan and the Leopard Woman' (1946) and the 'meek housekeeper' Mrs. Watchett in 'The Time Machine' (1960). With the exception of returning to Broadway in 'An Inspector Calls' (1947-1948), as Sybil Birling), her career was devoted to films and television.
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| As a depositer in 'Mary Poppins' (1964) |
She also voiced one of the talking roses in the animated film 'Alice in Wonderland' (1951). Towards the end of her career she had bit parts as an unnamed depositor in 'Mary Poppins (1964), and as Baroness Ebberfeld in 'The Sound of Music' (1965). Her last film appearance was in the comedy film 'Rosie' (1967). After appearing in over 150 films between 1920 and 1960 and spending most of her life abroad in the United States, she died in May 1968, at the age of 71 in Santa Barbara, California, and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery of Glendale.
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