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- Birth nameLillian Melvina Webb
- While filming a comedy in 1918, Lillian fell while leaping from one running automobile to another. She suffered severe internal injuries but was able to appear before the cameras again later on. However, during a later filming, the injuries sustained in the previous accident, caused her to become incapacitated and eventually caused her untimely death. Peacock died on a Sunday at her parent's home (1230 Westlake Avenue) near downtown Los Angeles, her funeral was held there two days later.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Lillian Peacock was born Lillian Melvina Webb October 23, 1889 in Scottsdale, Pennsylvania. Her father, Samuel Webb, was a barber. The family moved to Los Angeles when she was a teenager and she got a job as a bookkeeper. She married Roy W. Peacock, a real estate agent, on March 1, 1909. They divorced five years later. At the age of twenty-five she made her film debut in the 1915 comedy The Plumber Wins the Girl. Lillian started working in Universal's Jokers comedies where she was usually cast an ingenue. On February 18, 1915 she was badly hurt in a car accident on Hollywood Boulevard. She recovered from her injuries and returned to work two months later. Over the next three years she appeared in more than one hundred comedy shorts including The Mechanical Man, How Billy Got His Raise, and The Detective Duck series.
Lillian frequently costarred with Gale Henry and Max Asher. While making a movie at an ostrich farm she hurt her leg when she was thrown off an ostrich. Then in October of 1916 she was filming a scene for Bombs And Business when she fell leaping from one car to another. She broke her wrist and suffered severe internal injuries. Soon after she was back at the studio making movies. Unfortunately she never fully recovered from the accident and became incapacitated in early 1918. She spent the next six months at her parents home in Los Angeles. Lillian died on August 18, 1918 from a carcinoma. She was only twenty-eight years old. Her final film, The Pie Eyed Piper, was released the day after she died. She was buried at Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles, California.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Elizabeth Ann
- SpouseRoy W. Peacock(March 1, 1909 - 1914) (divorced)
- Newspaper reports claimed that Lillian died following a six month illness caused by a on set injury. However her 1918 death certificate lists her cause of death as a carcinoma.
- In 1916 Lillian was filming a scene for a movie at a San Diego ostrich farm. She was supposed to ride the peacock but the bird threw her off after a few minutes. She wrenched her leg and had to be on bed rest for several days.
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