Daisy Campbell, English actress born around the mid 1850s.
popular on the London theatre from the 1880s.
often appeared in films as a aristocratic white-haired matron, lady or dutches, a great forgotten character star in more than 20 British silent movies, making her film debut as Mrs.
Waltham in Denison Clift's 'Demos' starring Milton Rosmer for the Ideal Film Company in 1921, perhaps she will be best remembered as Countess of Strangeways in Arthur Maude's 'Poppies of Flanders' with Jameson Thomas for the BIP Film Co in 1927, her final screen appearance as Mrs.
McPhillip in 'The Informer' directed by Arthur Robison, starring Lya De Putti and Lar Hanson in 1929.
A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen
The luminous Maria Corda stars as the eponymous Tesha, a celebrated Russian dancer who marries an Englishman (Thomas). The couple long for a child but after five years of happy marriage, remain childless. On a trip to Southampton Tesha succumbs to a brief fling with a stranger (Cavanagh), unleashing a barrage of unforeseen consequences and emotional turmoil. The superb cinematography is by the great German cinematographer Werner Brandes who worked on dozens of prestige British productions in the 1920s. Originally shot silent, sound was added in 1929.
A Lady adopts a runaway slum girl who resembles her own dead daughter.
The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked on it as assistant director and also handled the writing, editing, and art direction. The film was long thought to be lost. In August 2011, it was announced that the first three reels of the six-reel picture had been found in a garden shed and donated to the NFPF. The film cans were mislabled Two Sisters and Unidentified American Film and only later identified. The film was restored by Park Road Studios and is now in the New Zealand Film Archive. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Film Preservation Foundation in 2012.