Doris Lloyd

Hessy Doris Lloyd (3 July 1896 – 21 May 1968) was an English stage and screen actress.

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 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.

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 inMary Poppins and The Sound of Music which both starred Julie Andrews.

Lloyd died on 21 May 1968, aged 71, in Santa Barbara, California. Her interment was in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Partial filmography

• The Man from Red Gulch (1925)
• Exit Smiling (1926)
• The Blackbird (1926)
• The Broncho Twister (1927)
• The Trail of '98 (1928)
• Disraeli (1929)
• Sarah and Son (1930)
• Way for a Sailor (1930)
• The Bachelor Father (1931)
• Waterloo Bridge (1931)
• Once a Lady (1931)
• Bought! (1931)
• Devotion (1931)
• Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) – Mrs. Cutten
• Back Street (1932)
• Oliver Twist (1933)
• Looking Forward (1933)
• A Study in Scarlet (1933)
• Peg o' My Heart (1933)
• Voltaire (1933)
• Dangerous Corner (1934)
• Long Lost Father (1934)
• One Exciting Adventure (1934)
• Tarzan and His Mate (1934) – Mrs. Cutten (deleted scenes)
• Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
• Straight from the Heart (1935)
• The Woman in Red (1935)
• Two for Tonight (1935)
• Clive of India (1935)
• Becky Sharp (1935)
• Kind Lady (1935)
• The Imperfect Lady (1935)
• The Plough and the Stars (1936)
• Port of Seven Seas (1938)
• The Under-Pup (1939)
• Barricade (1939)
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex(1939)
• Vigil in the Night (1940)
• 'Til We Meet Again (1940)
• The Boys from Syracuse (1940)
• The Letter (1940)
• Shining Victory (1941)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) – uncredited
• The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
• Night Monster (1942)
• The Constant Nymph (1943)
• The Lodger (1944)
• The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
• Molly and Me (1945)
• Scotland Yard Investigator (1945)
• Allotment Wives (1945)
• My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
• Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946) – Miss Wetherby, School Superintendent (uncredited)
• Three Strangers (1946)
• G.I. War Brides (1946)
• Kind Lady (1951)
• Alice in Wonderland (1951) – Rose (voice)
• Young Bess (1953)
• The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960)
• The Time Machine (1960)
• Midnight Lace (1960)
• Mary Poppins (1964) – Depositor (uncredited)
• The Sound of Music (1965) – Baroness Ebberfeld