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Lydia Knott is a Actor American born on 30 september 1866 at Tyner (USA)

Lydia Knott

Lydia Knott
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Nationality USA
Birth 30 september 1866 at Tyner (USA)
Death 30 march 1955 (at 88 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Lydia Knott (October 1, 1866 – March 30, 1955) was an American actress of the silent film era. She appeared in 91 films between 1914 and 1937. She was born in Tyner, Indiana and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. She was the mother of director Lambert Hillyer.

Biography

Lydia Knott entame sa carrière d'actrice au théâtre, avant d'apparaître au cinéma (principalement durant la période du muet) dans quatre-vingt-quatorze films américains sortis entre 1914 et 1937 (dont quelques westerns).

Mentionnons La Loi commune d'Albert Capellani (1916, avec Clara Kimball Young et Conway Tearle), La Rose messagère de John Ince (1919, avec Alice Lake et John Gilbert), L'Opinion publique de Charlie Chaplin (1923, avec Edna Purviance et Carl Miller), ou encore Le Secret de la mine de Norman Foster (son avant-dernier film, 1937, avec J. Edward Bromberg et John Payne).

Mère du réalisateur et scénariste Lambert Hillyer (1889-1969), elle contribue à quatre de ses réalisations, dont Les Fraudeurs (1924, avec Blanche Sweet et Bessie Love) et The Defense Rests (1934, avec Jack Holt et Jean Arthur).

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Filmography of Lydia Knott (32 films)

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Actress

The Defense Rests, 1h10
Directed by Lambert Hillyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Nat Pendleton, Arthur Hohl, Raymond Walburn, Harold Huber
Roles Hospital Patient
Rating64% 3.238543.238543.238543.238543.23854
If I Had a Million, 1h28
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, James Cruze, Norman Taurog, Norman Z. McLeod, William A. Seiter, H. Bruce Humberstone, Stephen Roberts, Lothar Mendes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, May Robson, W. C. Fields, Richard Bennett
Roles Idylwood Resident (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.4450053.4450053.4450053.4450053.445005
Dying industrial tycoon John Glidden (Richard Bennett) cannot decide what to do with his wealth. He despises his money-hungry relatives and believes none of his employees is capable of running his various companies. Finally, he decides to give a million dollars each to eight people picked at random from a telephone directory before he passes away, so as to avoid his will being contested. (The first name selected is John D. Rockefeller, which is swiftly rejected.)
Our Dancing Daughters, 1h24
Directed by Harry Beaumont, Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Joan Crawford, John Mack Brown, Nils Asther, Dorothy Sebastian, Anita Page, Kathlyn Williams
Roles une femme de ménage
Rating66% 3.3460653.3460653.3460653.3460653.346065
"Dangerous Diana" Medford (Crawford) is outwardly flamboyant and popular but inwardly virtuous and idealistic, patronizing her parents by telling them not to stay out late. Her friend Ann chases boys for their money and is as amoral as her mother.
Those Who Dance, 1h20
Directed by Lambert Hillyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love, Dorothy Dwan, Warner Baxter, William Quinn, Robert Agnew
Roles Mrs. Carney

When a young lawyer (Warner Baxter)'s sister is killed in a bootleg liquor-related accident, he seeks justice by joining the prohibition force.
St. Elmo
St. Elmo (1923)
, 1h
Directed by Jerome Storm
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors John Gilbert, Barbara La Marr, Bessie Love, Warner Baxter, Nigel De Brulier, Lydia Knott
Roles Mrs. Thornton

When St. Elmo Thornton catches his fiancée Agnes in the arms of his best friend Murray Hammond, he shoots Hammond and decides to travel around the world in hopes of forgetting women. Upon returning, he meets Edna, the blacksmith's daughter who is living with his minister. In the end, St. Elmo becomes a minister and marries Edna.
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate, 1h18
Directed by Charlie Chaplin, A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Lydia Knott, Carl Miller, Charles K. French, Adolphe Menjou
Roles Jean's Mother
Rating68% 3.4463553.4463553.4463553.4463553.446355
Marie St. Clair and her beau, aspiring artist Jean Millet, plan to leave their small French village for Paris, where they will marry. On the night before their scheduled departure, Marie climbs down from her second-floor bedroom for a rendezvous with Jean. Her stepfather sees them strolling down a lane and locks her out of the house. When the couple returns, Jean furiously knocks on the front door and reminds the older man that he's locked out his daughter. The stepfather dismisses Jean's complaint and tells Marie, "Perhaps (Jean) will give you a bed for the night."