Ellaline Terriss
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Mary Ellaline Terriss, Lady Hicks (13 April 1871 – 16 June 1971), known professionally as Ellaline Terriss, was a popular English actress and singer, best known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies. She met and married the actor-producer Seymour Hicks in 1893, and the two collaborated on many projects for the stage and screen.
Terriss appeared in over a dozen British films, generally in which her husband was involved as an actor, writer or director. These included the silent films Scrooge (1913), David Garrick (1913), Flame of Passion (1915), A Woman of the World (1916), Masks and Faces (1918), Always Tell Your Wife (1923), Land of Hope and Glory (1927). She made a successful transition to talkies, including Blighty (1927), Atlantic (1929), A Man of Mayfair (1931), Glamour (1931), The Iron Duke (1934), Royal Cavalcade (1935) and The Four Just Men (1939).
She died in Hampstead, England, at the age of 100.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.738 |
Birthday | 1871-04-13 |
Place of Birth | Stanley, Falkland Islands |
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1939
The Four Just Men
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The Four Just Men
1934
The Iron Duke
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The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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The Iron Duke
1923
Always Tell Your Wife
5.7/3
A comedic short filmed directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock about an affair.
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Always Tell Your Wife
1927
Blighty
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A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
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Blighty
1927
Land of Hope and Glory
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A girl saves her fiancé's stabiliser plans from spies.
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Land of Hope and Glory
1931
Glamour
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A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.
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Glamour
1931
Man of Mayfair
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'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Man of Mayfair
1929
Atlantic
4.778/9
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
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Atlantic
1917
Masks and Faces
4.5/2
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
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Masks and Faces
1913
Scrooge
5/3
A 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It starred Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge....
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Scrooge
1913
The World Famous Musical Comedy Artists Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss in a Selection of Their Dances
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