Doris Lloyd


Hessy Doris Lloyd was a British actress. She appeared in The Time Machine and The Sound of Music.

Early life

Lloyd's parents were Edward Franklin Lloyd and Hessy Jane McCappin. She was born in Liverpool, and she had a grandfather who was an amateur actor. Her father was born in 1855 in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales. Her mother was born in 1860.

Career

When Lloyd was 23, she debuted on stage with the Liverpool Repertory Company. She appeared a number of times in the London West End, including in Mr. Todd's Experiment by Walter Hackett, and The Smiths of Surbiton by Keble Howard. Her film debut was in the 1920 British silent film The Shadow Between.
She went to the United States to visit a sister already living there. What was supposed to be a visit she made permanent. She spent several years appearing in Broadway theatre plays, notably a number of Ziegfeld Follies editions, and probably spent some time on the road in touring companies. She decided on a film career, making her first US film in 1925. With the exception of returning to one Broadway play in 1947, her career was devoted to films and television.

Roles

Lloyd appeared in more than 150 films in a 42-year career between 1925 and 1967, including the 1933 low-budget Monogram Pictures version of Oliver Twist, in which she played Nancy. Irving Pichel starred as Fagin and Dickie Moore as Oliver. Her roles ranged from the sinister Russian spy Mrs. Travers in the biopic Disraeli to the meek housekeeper Mrs. Watchett in The Time Machine.
Her most famous film roles were in the Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller. She portrayed a nurse in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man with Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. She voiced one of the roses in Disney's Alice in Wonderland, later making small appearances in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, which both starred Julie Andrews.

Death

Lloyd died on 21 May 1968, aged 76, in Santa Barbara, California. She is interred in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Selected filmography

The Shadow Between as Marian WestLove's Influence The Lady as Fannie ChairThe Man from Red Gulch as Madame Le BlancThe Blackbird as Limehouse PollyBrown of Harvard as Nurse Black Paradise as Lillian WebsterThe Midnight Kiss as Ellen AtkinsExit Smiling as OlgaThe Auctioneer as Esther LeviThe Broncho Twister as Teresa BradyIs Zat So? as Sue ParkerRich But Honest as Mrs. O'GradyLonesome Ladies as Helen WayneTwo Girls Wanted as Mrs. TimoneyCome to My House as Renee ParsonsThe Trail of '98 as Locasto's ProcurerThe Drake Case as Mrs. DrakeThe Careless Age as MabsDisraeli as Mrs. TraversSarah and Son as Mrs. Ashmore, Vanning's sisterOur Blushing Brides as Miss Hartley, head of the lingerie department Old English as Mrs. Rosamond LaneReno as Lola FealeyWay for a Sailor as FlossyCharley's Aunt as Donna Lucia D'AlvadorezThe Bachelor Father as Mrs. Julia WebbTransgression as Paula VrainBought! as Mrs. BarryWaterloo Bridge as KittyDevotion as PansyOnce a Lady as Lady Ellen SomervilleTarzan the Ape Man as Mrs. CuttenThe Washington Masquerade as Dinner Guest Back Street as Corinne Saxel, Walter's wifePayment Deferred as Woman exchanging foreign currency in bank A Farewell to Arms as Nurse Robbers' Roost as Prossie Oliver Twist as Nancy SikesSecrets as Susan ChanningLooking Forward as Mrs. Lil BentonA Study in Scarlet as Mrs. MurphyPeg o' My Heart as Mrs. Grace BrentVoltaire as Madame Clarion, actressLong Lost Father as Mrs. Bellwater, the blonde widowGlamour as NanaSisters Under the Skin as Elinor YatesMadame Du Barry as Madame of Dear Park Kiss and Make-Up as Madame DurandShe Was a Lady as Alice VaneOne Exciting Adventure as CustomerBritish Agent as Lady CarristerDangerous Corner as Maude MockridgeStrange Wives as Mrs. SleeperThe Man Who Reclaimed His Head as Lulu, woman in theatre box Clive of India as Mrs. NixonA Shot in the Dark as Lucille CoatesThe Woman in Red as Mrs. CasserlyStraight from the Heart as Miss CarterChasing Yesterday as Madame De Gabry Motive for Revenge as Mrs. FlemingBecky Sharp as Duchess of RichmondTwo for Tonight as Lady Ralston A Feather in Her Hat as Liz ViningPeter Ibbetson as Mrs. DorianMutiny on the Bounty as Cockney Moll The Perfect Gentleman as KateKind Lady as Lucy WestonDon't Get Personal as Mrs. Charles van RonesoleerFollow the Fleet as Mrs. Courtney Too Many Parents as Mrs. DowningBrilliant Marriage as Mrs. Madeleine AllisonMary of Scotland as Fisherman's WifeThe Luckiest Girl in the World A Woman Rebels as Mrs. Seaton, Party Guest The Plough and the Stars as Woman at barricadesBulldog Drummond Escapes as NurseThe Soldier and the Lady as Shepherdess Alcatrez Island as Miss MarquandTovarich as Madame Chauffourier-DubleffMurder Is News as Pauline DrakeThe Black Doll as Laura LelandThe Baroness and the Butler as Lady at charity party Lord Jeff as Party Hostess Port of Seven Seas as Customer Letter of Introduction as Charlotte in play They Made Me a Criminal as Mrs. Williamson Three Smart Girls Grow Up as Guest I'm from Missouri as Mrs. Arthur, Duchess of CricklewoodThe Spellbinder as Mrs. Raymond, School Headmistress Chicken Wagon Family as Mrs. McGinty The Old Maid as Miss Ford The Under-Pup as Mrs. BinnsThe Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex as Handmaiden Intermezzo as Schoolteacher at accident scene First Love as Mrs. ParkerWe Are Not Alone as Mrs. Jaeggers Barricade as Mrs. WardVigil in the Night as Mrs. Martha Bowley'Til We Meet Again as LouiseThe Boys from Syracuse as WomanLife with Henry as Mrs. Anderson The Letter as Mrs. CooperLady with Red Hair as Teacher at Miss Humbert's school The Great Plane Robbery as Mrs. JamisonScotland Yard as Miss Harcourt, nurse The Great Lie as Bertha, Sandra's maid Shining Victory as Mrs. FosterDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Mrs. Marley International Squadron as Mother Appointment for Love as Woman Spectator Keep 'Em Flying as Lady with lipstick The Wolf Man as Mrs. Williams On the Sunny Side as Mrs. Whitaker The Ghost of Frankenstein as MarthaThis Above All as WAAF Sergeant Night Monster as Sarah JuddJourney for Margaret as Mrs. BarrieForever and a Day as Trimble MaidNo Place for a Lady as Evelyn HarrisFrankenstein Meets the Wolf Man as Dr. Mannering's Nurse Mission to Moscow as Mrs. Churchill Two Tickets to London as Emmie The Constant Nymph as Miss HamiltonFlesh and Fantasy as Mrs. Carrington What a Woman! as Drama Coach The Lodger as JenniePhantom Lady as KettishaFollow the Boys as Nurse The White Cliffs of Dover as Plump Lady at boardinghouse The Invisible Man's Revenge as MaudFrenchman's Creek The Conspirators as Mrs. Benson The House of Fear as Bessie Molly and Me as Mrs. GrahamScotland Yard Investigator as Emma TodworthyKitty as Fishhawker My Name Is Julia Ross as Mrs. MackieAllotment Wives as Alice Van BrookThree Strangers as Mrs. ProctorTarzan and the Leopard Woman as Miss Wetherby, School Superintendent To Each His Own as Miss PringleDevotion as Mrs. Ingraham Of Human Bondage as LandladyG.I. War Brides as Beatrice MoraskiHoliday in Mexico as Cady Millicent Owen Sister Kenny as Matron The Imperfect Lady as Woman in theater balcony The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as Mrs. Leticia FollinebeeEscape Me Never as Mrs. Cooper The Sign of the Ram as Mrs. Woolton The Red Danube as Mrs. Omicron Challenge to Lassie as Landlady Adam's Rib as Lady with Attinger kids in court Tyrant of the Sea as Elizabeth BlakeKind Lady as RoseAlice in Wonderland as Rose The Son of Dr. Jekyll as Lottie Sorelle The Prisoner of Zenda as Lady Topham Young Bess as Mother JackThe Black Shield of Falworth as Dame EllenA Man Called Peter as Miss Hopkins Interrupted Melody as Volunteer Worker The Swan as Countess SibenstoynJeanne Eagels as Mrs. Corliss Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Emily's MotherAlfred Hitchcock Presents as Miss WilkinsonAlfred Hitchcock Presents as Mrs. Jefferson Crawpit, the Gun Store CustomerAlfred Hitchcock Presents as NannieThe Time Machine as Mrs. WatchettMidnight Lace as Nora Stanley, the HousekeeperThe Notorious Landlady as Lady Fallott