Alma Tell
Born: 1898-03-27 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1937-12-29
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Alma Tell (March 27, 1898 - December 29, 1937) was an American stage and motion picture actress whose career in cinema began in 1915 and lasted into the talkie era of the early 1930s. She began her career as an actress on the stages of New York before making her screen debut in the Edward José-directed drama Simon, the Jester, released in September 1915. Tell was most often cast in films as the second leading lady. Throughout the 1920s, she appeared opposite such leading silent film actresses as Mae Murray, Corinne Griffith and Madge Kennedy and would achieve leading lady status in 1923's J. Gordon Edwards-directed film The Silent Command, opposite actors Edmund Lowe, Martha Mansfield and Béla Lugosi. She made her last film appearance in the 1934 John M. Stahl-directed romantic-drama Imitation of Life, which starred Claudette Colbert. Tell died in 1937.
Filmography
1934
- Imitation of Life as Mrs. Craven (uncredited)
1930
- Love Comes Along as Carlotta
1929
- Saturday's Children as Florrie
1928
- San Francisco Nights as Ruth
1923
- The Silent Command as Mrs. Richard Decatur
1922
- Broadway Rose as Barbara Royce
1921
- The Iron Trail as Eliza Appleton
- Paying the Piper as Marcia Marillo
1920
- The Right to Love as Lady Edith
- On with the Dance as Lady Tremelyn
1917
- Nearly Married as Gertrude Robinson
1916
- The Smugglers as Mrs. Watts