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Daisy Campbell

Daisy Campbell, English actress born around the mid 1850s. popular on the London theatre from the 1880s. often appeared in films as a aristocratic white-haired matron, lady or dutches, a great forgotten character star in more than 20 British silent movies, making her film debut as Mrs. Waltham in Denison Clift's 'Demos' starring Milton Rosmer for the Ideal Film Company in 1921, perhaps she will be best remembered as Countess of Strangeways in Arthur Maude's 'Poppies of Flanders' with Jameson Thomas for the BIP Film Co in 1927, her final screen appearance as Mrs. McPhillip in 'The Informer' directed by Arthur Robison, starring Lya De Putti and Lar Hanson in 1929.