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Lillian Worth
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Lillian Worth
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1884-06-24,Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

The Docks of New York

6.9

The Docks of New York
1928-09-16

Tarzan the Tiger

4.714

Tarzan the Tiger
1929-12-08

In Search of a Sinner

7

In Search of a Sinner
1920-03-07

Rustlers' Ranch

8

Rustlers' Ranch
1926-04-11

The Adventures of Tarzan

6.583

The Adventures of Tarzan
1921-12-01

Other Men's Women

5.688

Other Men's Women
1931-01-17

The Fatal Fortune

9

The Fatal Fortune
1919-12-15

10

Race Memories
1913-11-06

6.063

Upstream
1927-01-30

Stars Over Broadway

5.6

Stars Over Broadway
1935-11-23

The White Angel

7.167

The White Angel
1936-06-25

Maybe It's Love

7

Maybe It's Love
1935-01-12

9

Won by Law
1925-08-19

Dangerous Paradise

3.9

Dangerous Paradise
1930-02-13

8

Carnival
1935-02-15

The Fighting Sheriff

10

The Fighting Sheriff
1931-05-15

6

Stranded
1935-06-29

The Foolish Age

9

The Foolish Age
1921-10-16

0

Her Atonement
1915-09-20

6.667

Private Number
1936-06-05

0

Stairs of Sand
1929-06-08

The Lady from Longacre

7

The Lady from Longacre
1921-10-02

Bungling Bunk's Bunco

0

Bungling Bunk's Bunco
1914-08-17

The Shadow of Rosalie Byrnes

10

The Shadow of Rosalie Byrnes
1920-04-12

The Girl with the Jazz Heart

10

The Girl with the Jazz Heart
1921-01-07