Alma Taylor
Born: 1895-01-02 in London, England, UK
Died: 1974-01-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
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)
- 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
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Mrs. Barrymore
- Die stärkere Macht
1928
- A South Sea Bubble as Mary Ottery
1927
- Quinneys as Susan Quinney
- The House of Marney
1924
- The Shadow of Egypt as Lilian Westcott
1923
- Comin' Thro the Rye as Helen Adair
- Mist in the Valley as Margaret Yeoland/'Heather Moreland'
1921
- Tansy as Tansy Firle
- The Narrow Valley as Victoria
- Dollars in Surrey
1920
- Helen of Four Gates as Helen
- Anna the Adventuress as Anna / Annabel Pelissier
1919
- Broken in the Wars as Lady Dorothea
1918
- The Leopard's Spots as The Woman
1916
- Molly Bawn as Eleanor Massareene
- Annie Laurie as Annie Laurie
- Comin' Thro' the Rye
1915
1914
- The Basilisk
- An Engagement of Convenience as The Typist
- Heart of Midlothian as Madge Wildfire
1913
- David Copperfield as Dora Spenlow
1912
- Oliver Twist as Nancy
- Tilly in a Boarding House as Tilly
- I Do Like to Be Where the Girls Are
1911
- Are We Down-Hearted?
- Tilly and the Fire Engines as Tilly
- A Seaside Introduction as The Girl
- Tilly's Party as Tilly
- When Tilly's Uncle Flirted as Tilly
1910
- Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor as Tilly