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Lillian Worth

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
25

Gender
Female

Birthday
June 24, 1884 (142 years old)

Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Lillian Worth

Biography

Lillian Worth (stage name), born Lillian Burgher Murphy, (June 24, 1884 – February 23, 1952) was an American actress. She appeared in 58 films between 1913 and 1937.

Lillian Murphy was born on June 24, 1884, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Katherine Stahler and John B. Murphy. After she married in 1905, she began using her husband's surname as her stage name; and by 1909 she, as Lillian Wiggins, had gained public attention and favorable reviews for her performance in the theatrical production Beauty Spot By early 1913, she was a leading actress at Pathé's West Coast studio in Edendale, Los Angeles, where she starred in Western films. Pathé transferred Wiggins a few months later to its East Coast studio in Jersey City, New Jersey, and then in October 1913 to its new Southern studio in St. Augustine, Florida. In March 1914, Pathé once again relocated her, dispatching her to Europe, where she worked at the company's Paris studio before moving to London. There she made films first for British and Colonial Kinematography Company and then for Motograph Film Company.

Wiggins returned to the United States in September 1914 and the next year started performing in films for Deer Film Company. Following the dissolution of her first marriage, she married again in 1918. She, however, elected not to use her second husband's surname professionally; instead, she adopted the new stage name Lillian Worth, which is how she continued to be credited until 1937.

Lillian Worth was married twice. On May 3, 1905, she married Benjamin Platt Wiggins in Brooklyn, New York. The couple separated after a couple of years, and she filed for divorce in Reno, Nevada in 1911, although on that occasion she did not obtain the divorce. She filed again in Los Angeles, California, and was finally granted a divorce in 1914. She then married Erville Alderson, an American actor, on January 14, 1918, in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. That marriage too ended in divorce in 1925.

Worth died at age 67 in Los Angeles, California, on February 23, 1952. In death records from that time, she is identified as Lillian Alderson despite the fact that she had divorced Erville Alderson 27 years earlier. Her gravesite is located at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Known For

Acting

1936The White Angelas Woman Donating Bandages (uncredited)
1936Private Numberas Maud
1935Stars Over Broadwayas Buxom Singer
1935Strandedas Blonde (uncredited)
1935Carnivalas Half Man-Half Woman
1935Maybe It's Loveas First Complaining Wife (uncredited)
1931The Fighting Sheriffas Florabell
1931Other Men's Womenas Waitress
1930Dangerous Paradiseas Myrtle
1929Tarzan the Tigeras Queen La of Opar
1929Stairs of Sandas Babe
1928The Docks of New Yorkas Steve's Girl
1927Upstreamas Sister Team
1926Rustlers' Ranchas Tessie
1925Won by Lawas Mother Franklin
1921The Adventures of Tarzanas Queen La of Opar
1921The Foolish Ageas Flossy
1921The Lady from Longacreas Lady Laura
1921The Girl with the Jazz Heartas Camille
1920The Shadow of Rosalie Byrnesas Mrs. Cromwell
1920In Search of a Sinneras Valeska
1919The Fatal Fortuneas
1915Her Atonementas
1914Bungling Bunk's Buncoas Lillian Marston
1913Race Memoriesas Denton's Sweetheart

Production