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name: "Lilian Fontaine"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lilian-fontaine"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 June 1886"
died: "20 February 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T01:23:50.472430+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Lilian Fontaine

Actor. Born 10 June 1886 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK. Died 20 February 1975.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 June 1886, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 20 February 1975
- **Also known as:** Lilian Augusta Ruse, Lilian Augusta Fontaine, Lillian Fontaine
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Fontaine, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3240900, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284832/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/101493

## Biography

Lilian Fontaine was an English actress. Born Lilian Augusta Ruse in Reading, Berkshire, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before marrying and pausing her career.

After her daughters Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine became film stars, Fontaine resumed acting. She appeared as Mrs. Charles St. James in *The Lost Weekend* (1945), Lady Wyndham in *The Locket* (1946), and Miss Higgins in *The Bigamist* (1953), among other supporting roles in film and television during the 1940s and 1950s. She later taught acting in California.

Fontaine was married to Walter de Havilland from 1914 to 1925 and to George Milan-Fontaine from 1925 until his death in 1956. She died in Santa Barbara, California, in 1975.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Lost Weekend* (1945), Fi1m 82, as Mrs. Charles St. James — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lost-weekend.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Bigamist* (1953), as Miss Higgins, Landlady
- *Ivy* (1947), as Lady Flora
- *Suddenly It's Spring* (1947), Actor
- *The Locket* (1946), as Lady Wyndham
- *The Imperfect Lady* (1946), Actor
- *The Lost Weekend* (1945), as Mrs. Charles St. James — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lost-weekend.md)

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