Lillian Worth
Date of birth: 1884-06-24
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Mademoiselle Kithnou, Lillian Wiggins, Lillian Burgher Murphy
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.
Movie Credits
The Docks of New York
1928-09-16
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma
Tarzan the Tiger
1929-12-08
After Tarzan's estate is destroyed by Arabs Jane is sold into slavery by a man posing as a friendly
In Search of a Sinner
1920-03-07
Georgiana Chadbourne is a young widow. Her dead husband was such a straight arrow that it bored her,
Rustlers' Ranch
1926-04-11
Lee Crush, an out-of-work cowhand, gets into a fight with Bull Dozier and knocks him through a raili
The Adventures of Tarzan
1921-12-01
Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and C
Other Men's Women
1931-01-17
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the oth
The Fatal Fortune
1919-12-15
A young newspaperwoman travels to a South Seas island to search for buried treasure.
Race Memories
1913-11-06
Denton, an anthropologist of note, meets by accident a new neighbor, an attractive girl, whose fathe
Upstream
1927-01-30
A silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barr
Stars Over Broadway
1935-11-23
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
The White Angel
1936-06-25
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs
Maybe It's Love
1935-01-12
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in l
Won by Law
1925-08-19
Wanda Wiley stars as a very slow and lazy daughter in this excellent Century short. She gets servant
Dangerous Paradise
1930-02-13
Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger
Carnival
1935-02-15
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves
The Fighting Sheriff
1931-05-15
A dying Jack makes Bob and Flash promise not to tell his sister that he was an outlaw. When Bob conf
Stranded
1935-06-29
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
The Foolish Age
1921-10-16
After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to
Her Atonement
1915-09-20
Owner of a fashionable gambling den John De Forrest seeks out wealthy people and lures them to his g
Private Number
1936-06-05
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son whi
Stairs of Sand
1929-06-08
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in lov
The Lady from Longacre
1921-10-02
To escape a loathsome marriage to the king of a neighboring principality, Princess Isabel flees her
Bungling Bunk's Bunco
1914-08-17
The Shadow of Rosalie Byrnes
1920-04-12
Leontine Maddern is a self-centered, unscrupulous actress, while her twin sister Leona is a serious
The Girl with the Jazz Heart
1921-01-07
When Miriam Smith's devoutly religious aunt and uncle insist that she marry pious Simeon Althoff, sh