Alma Taylor
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.
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Movies (42)
A Night to Remember
as old woman who leaves her seat to a young mother on the lifeboat (uncredited)
1958
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
as Prince Bruno's Mother
1957
The Man Who Knew Too Much
as Embassy Guest (uncredited)
1956
Lost
as Mrs. Bellamy (Uncredited)
1956
Stock Car
as Nurse Sprott
1955
Lilacs in the Spring
as 1st Woman
1954
Everybody Dance
as Rosemary Spurgeon
1936
Things Are Looking Up
as Schoolmistress
1935
Bachelor's Baby
as Aunt Mary
1932
Deadlock
as Mrs. Tring
1931
Die stärkere Macht
1929
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Mrs. Barrymore
1929
A South Sea Bubble
as Mary Ottery
1928
Quinneys
as Susan Quinney
1927
The House of Marney
1927
The Shadow of Egypt
as Lilian Westcott
1924
Comin' Thro the Rye
as Helen Adair
1923
Mist in the Valley
as Margaret Yeoland/'Heather Moreland'
1923
Tansy
as Tansy Firle
1921
Dollars in Surrey
1921
The Narrow Valley
as Victoria
1921
Helen of Four Gates
as Helen
1920
Anna the Adventuress
as Anna / Annabel Pelissier
1920
Broken in the Wars
as Lady Dorothea
1919
The Leopard's Spots
as The Woman
1918
Molly Bawn
as Eleanor Massareene
1916
Annie Laurie
as Annie Laurie
1916
Comin' Thro' the Rye
1916
The Outrage
1915
The Basilisk
1914
Heart of Midlothian
as Madge Wildfire
1914
An Engagement of Convenience
as The Typist
1914
David Copperfield
as Dora Spenlow
1913
Oliver Twist
as Nancy
1912
Tilly in a Boarding House
as Tilly
1912
I Do Like to Be Where the Girls Are
1912
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?
1911
Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor
as Tilly
1910