Alma Taylor
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1895-01-02
Day of Death
1974-01-23 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
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.
Known For
Acting
(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)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Mrs. Barrymore
(1929)
(1928)
A South Sea Bubble
as Mary Ottery
(1927)
Quinneys
as Susan Quinney
(1927)
(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)
(1921)
The Narrow Valley
as Victoria
(1920)
Anna the Adventuress
as Anna / Annabel Pelissier
(1920)
Helen of Four Gates
as Helen
(1919)
Broken in the Wars
as Lady Dorothea
(1918)
The Leopard's Spots
as The Woman
(1916)
Molly Bawn
as Eleanor Massareene
(1916)
(1916)
Annie Laurie
as Annie Laurie
(1915)
(1914)
(1914)
An Engagement of Convenience
as The Typist
(1914)
Heart of Midlothian
as Madge Wildfire
(1913)
David Copperfield
as Dora Spenlow
(1912)
Tilly in a Boarding House
as Tilly
(1912)
Oliver Twist
as Nancy
(1912)
(1911)
Tilly and the Fire Engines
as Tilly
(1911)
When Tilly's Uncle Flirted
as Tilly
(1911)
A Seaside Introduction
as The Girl
(1911)
(1911)
Tilly's Party
as Tilly
(1910)
Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor
as Tilly
Crew
(1916)
Annie Laurie
Writer