Doris Lloyd

Doris Lloyd

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Doris Lloyd was born on Jul 03, 1896 in UK. Doris Lloyd's big-screen debut came with The Lady directed by Frank Borzage in 1925. Doris Lloyd is known for The Sound of Music directed by Robert Wise, Julie Andrews stars as Maria and Christopher Plummer as Captain Georg von Trapp. The upcoming new movie Doris Lloyd plays is Mary Poppins which will be released on Jun 18, 1965.

Doris Lloyd was an English actress with a lengthy film career. She appeared in over 150 films between 1920 and 1960. She spent most of her life abroad in the United States.In 1891, Lloyd was born in Walton, Liverpool. Her parents were Edward Franklin Lloyd and Hessy Jane McCappin. One of her grandfathers was reportedly an amateur actor,.Lloyd made her theatrical debut c. 1914, Liverpool Repertory Company. She made 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 in the United States, and decided to permanently settle there. Besides film appearances, Lloyd appeared in Broadway theater, in the Ziegfeld Follies, and with touring theaters,Though mostly playing minor and supporting roles, Lloyd had a few highlights in her film career. She played the sinister Russian spy Mrs. Travers in Disraeli (1929), Mrs. Cutten in Tarzan, l'homme singe (1932), sympathetic thief Nancy Sikes in Oliver Twist (1933), school superintendent Miss Wetherby in Tarzan et la femme léopard (1946), and the "meek housekeeper" Mrs. Watchett in La Machine à explorer le temps (1960).Lloyd voiced one of the talking roses in the animated film Alice au pays des merveilles (1951). Towards the end of her career she had bit parts as an unnamed depositor in Mary Poppins (1964), and as Baroness Ebberfeld in La mélodie du bonheur (1965). Her last film appearance was in the comedy film Les Riches Familles (1967).Lloyd died in May 1968, at the age of 76. She died in Santa Barbara, California, and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery of Glendale.

  • Birthday

    Jul 03, 1896
  • Place of Birth

    Walton, Liverpool, England, UK

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