Alma Taylor
From Wikipedia Alma Taylor (3 January 1895 – 23 January 1974) was a British actress. Taylor was born in London. She made her first screen appearance as a child actor in the 1907 film His Daughter's Voice. She went on to appear in more than 150 film roles, appearing in a number of larger-budget films such as Shadow of Egypt which was shot on location in Egypt in 1924. Taylor was one of the major British stars of the 1910s and early 1920s. In 1915 she was voted the most popular British performer by readers of Pictures and the Picturegoers, comfortably beating Charlie Chaplin into second place. She acted only occasionally after 1932, appearing in films such as Lilacs in the Spring, Blue Murder at St Trinian's and A Night to Remember during the 1950s. She died in London, she was 79.
Known For
Credits
- 1958 · A Night to Remember as old woman who leaves her seat to a young mother on the lifeboat (uncredited)
- 1957 · Blue Murder at St. Trinian's as Prince Bruno's Mother
- 1956 · The Man Who Knew Too Much as Embassy Guest (uncredited)
- 1956 · Lost as Mrs. Bellamy (Uncredited)
- 1955 · Stock Car as Nurse Sprott
- 1954 · Lilacs in the Spring as 1st Woman
- 1936 · Everybody Dance as Rosemary Spurgeon
- 1935 · Things Are Looking Up as Schoolmistress
- 1932 · Bachelor's Baby as Aunt Mary
- 1931 · Deadlock as Mrs. Tring
- 1929 · Die stärkere Macht as
- 1929 · The Hound of the Baskervilles as Mrs. Barrymore
- 1928 · A South Sea Bubble as Mary Ottery
- 1927 · Quinneys as Susan Quinney
- 1927 · The House of Marney as
- 1924 · Shadow of Egypt as Lilian Westcott
- 1923 · Comin' Thro the Rye as Helen Adair
- 1923 · Mist in the Valley as Margaret Yeoland/'Heather Moreland'
- 1921 · Tansy as Tansy Firle
- 1921 · Dollars in Surrey as
- 1921 · The Narrow Valley as Victoria
- 1920 · Helen of Four Gates as Helen
- 1920 · Anna the Adventuress as Anna / Annabel Pelissier
- 1919 · Broken in the Wars as Lady Dorothea
- 1918 · The Leopard's Spots as The Woman
- 1916 · Annie Laurie as Annie Laurie
- 1916 · Comin' Thro' the Rye as
- 1915 · The Outrage as
- 1914 · The Basilisk as
- 1914 · An Engagement of Convenience as The Typist
- 1913 · David Copperfield as Dora Spenlow
- 1912 · Oliver Twist as Nancy
- 1912 · Tilly in a Boarding House as Tilly
- 1912 · I Do Like to Be Where the Girls Are as
- 1911 · A Seaside Introduction as The Girl
- 1911 · Tilly and the Fire Engines as Tilly
- 1911 · Tilly's Party as Tilly
- 1911 · When Tilly's Uncle Flirted as Tilly
- 1911 · Are We Down-Hearted? as
- 1910 · Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor as Tilly