| Occupation Actress Name Doris Lloyd | Role Actress | |
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| Full Name Hessy Doris Lloyd Born 3 July 1896 (1896-07-03) Walton, Liverpool, Lancashire, England Years active 1916–1967 (includes stage, film and television) Died May 21, 1968, Santa Barbara, California, United States Movies Tarzan the Ape Man, The Time Machine, The Sound of Music, Alice in Wonderland, Oliver Twist Similar People Tom Hel, Richard Haydn, Portia Nelson, Norma Varden, Ben Wright | ||
Resting place Forest Lawn Memorial Park | ||
Hessy Doris Lloyd (3 July 1896 – 21 May 1968) was an English-American film, television and stage actress.
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Early life and career
Born in Liverpool, she went to America to visit a sister already living there. What was supposed to be a visit she made permanent. She spent several years (1916–25) 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 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 over 150 films 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 (1929) to the meek housekeeper Mrs. Watchett in The Time Machine (1960).
Her most famous film roles were in the Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller. She voiced one of the roses in Disney's Alice in Wonderland (1951), 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 71, in Santa Barbara, California. Her interment was in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.