1. Doris Lloyd appeared in The Time Machine and The Sound of Music.
14 Facts About Doris Lloyd
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Doris Lloyd was born in Liverpool, and she had a grandfather who was an amateur actor.
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Doris Lloyd's father was born in 1855 in Holywell, Flintshire.
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When Doris Lloyd was 23, she debuted on stage with the Liverpool Repertory Company.
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Doris Lloyd appeared a number of times in the London West End, including in Mr Todd's Experiment by Walter Hackett, and The Smiths of Surbiton by Keble Howard.
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Doris Lloyd went to the United States to visit a sister already living there.
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Doris Lloyd spent several years appearing in Broadway theatre plays, notably a number of Ziegfeld Follies editions, and probably spent some time on the road in touring companies.
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Doris Lloyd decided on a film career, making her first US film in 1925.
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Doris Lloyd appeared in more than 150 films in a 42-year career between 1925 and 1967, including the 1933 low-budget Monogram Pictures version of Oliver Twist, in which she played Nancy.
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Doris Lloyd's roles ranged from the sinister Russian spy Mrs Travers in the biopic Disraeli to the meek housekeeper Mrs Watchett in The Time Machine.
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Doris Lloyd portrayed a nurse in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man with Lon Chaney Jr.
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Doris Lloyd voiced one of the roses in Disney's Alice in Wonderland, later making small appearances in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, which both starred Julie Andrews.
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Doris Lloyd died on 21 May 1968, aged 76, in Santa Barbara, California.
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Doris Lloyd is interred in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.