Peggy Hyland

Peggy Hyland
Born Gladys Hutchinson
(1884-06-11)June 11, 1884
Harborne, Birmingham, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Died see notes
Spouse(s) Fred LeRoy Granville

Peggy Hyland (neé Gladys Hutchinson) (11 June 1884 – ?) was an English silent film actress who was born in Harborne, Birmingham, Warwickshire.

Education

She was educated in Britain and at convents in Europe. The first convent she attended was Seroule in Verviers, on the frontier of Belgium. It was the first town entered by the German Army in World War I.

Film career

Hyland began acting after consulting a seer who foretold great success for the diminutive English girl. Once she played in support of Cyril Maude who is known for his Grumpy and The Basker.

Her first film is John Halifax, Gentleman (1915), in which she played Ursula March. The same year she appeared in Infelice, directed by L.C. MacBean and Fred Paul. In 1916 she was Olette in The Sixteenth Wife and co-starred with E.H. Sothern in The Chattle.[1] In 1917, she appeared in drama Her Right to Live as the head of a brood of orphans destined for the poohouse.

In The Merry-Go-Round (1919) Hyland plays Gypsy/Susie Alice Pomeroy. Newspapers of the era described the romance as one of the actress' best performances. In the Debt of Honour (1918) she sacrifices her good name to shield the reputation of a U.S. Senator who has taken her in his home as an orphan.

Hyland's film credits number forty. She remained active in films until 1925. Among her many appearances are roles in The Honeypot (1920), Faith (1920), Love Maggy (1921), Shifting Sands (1923) and Forbidden Cargoes (1925). Black Shadows was a 1920 Fox Film feature in which Peggy portrayed Marjorie Langdon. The production starred Allan Roscoe and was directed by Howard M. Mitchell.

Notes

The date of death for Hyland has not been definitively determined. The last whereabouts of her was her marriage to Universal film producer Fred LeRoy Granville in September 1921.[2] They later divorced and her last film was released in 1925.[3] Hyland's birth name was Gladys Hutchinson and she was born in England. She may have after the divorce from Granville reverted to her birth name to allow a clean exit from the film industry. A search of the Find a Grave database, non-famous section, yields no Peggy Hyland (August 2010). However, there are several Gladys Hutchinsons, one of whose date of birth is unknown and who apparently died in England in 1944 during World War II and was possibly a casualty of an air raid. But this is circumstantial and none of the Hutchinson women in the Find a Grave database is proven to Peggy Hyland, silent film star.

Select filmography

References

  1. ↑ Pictorial History of the Silent Screen by Daniel Blum c. 1953
  2. ↑ Silent Film Necrology 2nd Edition by Eugene Michael Vazzana c. 2001
  3. ↑ "Peggy Hyland" IMDb.com database
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