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

The Man Who Knew Too Much

A Night to Remember

Helen of Four Gates

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

Lost

Stock Car

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Lilacs in the Spring

All Movies (43)

• A Night to Remember1958 · as old woman who leaves her seat to a young mother on the lifeboat (uncredited)
• Blue Murder at St. Trinian's1957 · as Prince Bruno's Mother
• The Man Who Knew Too Much1956 · as Embassy Guest (uncredited)
• Lost1956 · as Mrs. Bellamy (Uncredited)
• Stock Car1955 · as Nurse Sprott
• Lilacs in the Spring1954 · as 1st Woman
• Everybody Dance1936 · as Rosemary Spurgeon
• Things Are Looking Up1935 · as Schoolmistress
• Bachelor's Baby1932 · as Aunt Mary
• Deadlock1931 · as Mrs. Tring
• Die stärkere Macht1929
• The Hound of the Baskervilles1929 · as Mrs. Barrymore
• A South Sea Bubble1928 · as Mary Ottery
• Quinneys1927 · as Susan Quinney
• The House of Marney1927
• The Shadow of Egypt1924 · as Lilian Westcott
• Comin' Thro the Rye1923 · as Helen Adair
• Mist in the Valley1923 · as Margaret Yeoland/'Heather Moreland'
• Tansy1921 · as Tansy Firle
• Dollars in Surrey1921
• The Narrow Valley1921 · as Victoria
• Helen of Four Gates1920 · as Helen
• Anna the Adventuress1920 · as Anna / Annabel Pelissier
• Broken in the Wars1919 · as Lady Dorothea
• The Leopard's Spots1918 · as The Woman
• Molly Bawn1916 · as Eleanor Massareene
• Annie Laurie1916 · as Annie Laurie
• Comin' Thro' the Rye1916
• The Outrage1915
• The Basilisk1914
• Heart of Midlothian1914 · as Madge Wildfire
• An Engagement of Convenience1914 · as The Typist
• David Copperfield1913 · as Dora Spenlow
• Oliver Twist1912 · as Nancy
• Tilly in a Boarding House1912 · as Tilly
• I Do Like to Be Where the Girls Are1912
• A Seaside Introduction1911 · as The Girl
• Tilly and the Fire Engines1911 · as Tilly
• Tilly's Party1911 · as Tilly
• When Tilly's Uncle Flirted1911 · as Tilly
• Are We Down-Hearted?1911
• Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor1910 · as Tilly
• The Heart of a Fishergirl— · as Susan