Doris Lloyd

Born

July 3, 1896

Died

1968

From

Walton, Liverpool, England, UK·Santa Barbara, California, USA

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Actress

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In short · Acted for five decades — 194 credits.

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Biography

Doris Lloyd was an English actress with a lengthy film career, appearing in over 150 films between 1920 and 1960. She spent most of her life abroad in the United States. Lloyd was born in 1891 in Walton, Liverpool, to Edward Franklin Lloyd and Hessy Jane McCappin. One of her grandfathers was reportedly an amateur actor. She made her theatrical debut around 1914 with the Liverpool Repertory Company, and her film debut in the crime film *The Shadow Between* (1920), based on a novel by Silas Kitto Hocking (1850–1935). In the early 1920s, Lloyd traveled to the United States to visit her sister, who had settled there. She found work as an actress and decided to permanently settle in the U.S. In addition to film appearances, Lloyd performed in Broadway theater, the Ziegfeld Follies, and with touring theaters.

Though mostly playing minor and supporting roles, Lloyd had a few highlights in her film career. She portrayed the sinister Russian spy Mrs. Travers in *Disraeli* (1929), Mrs. Cutten in *Tarzan the Ape Man* (1932), the sympathetic thief Nancy Sikes in *Oliver Twist* (1933), school superintendent Miss Wetherby in *Tarzan and the Leopard Woman* (1946), and the "meek housekeeper" Mrs. Watchett in *The Time Machine* (1960). Lloyd 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 *Rosie!* (1967). Lloyd died in May 1968 at the age of 76 in Santa Barbara, California, and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale.

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