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Alma Taylor

Alma Taylor

Born: 1895-01-02 • London, England, UK

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
A Night to Remember poster
A Night to Remember
1958 • old woman who leaves her seat to a young mother on the lifeboat (uncredited)
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's poster
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
1957 • Prince Bruno's Mother
The Man Who Knew Too Much poster
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 • Embassy Guest (uncredited)
Lost poster
Lost
1956 • Mrs. Bellamy (Uncredited)
Stock Car poster
Stock Car
1955 • Nurse Sprott
Lilacs in the Spring poster
Lilacs in the Spring
1954 • 1st Woman
Everybody Dance poster
Everybody Dance
1936 • Rosemary Spurgeon
Things Are Looking Up poster
Things Are Looking Up
1935 • Schoolmistress
No Image
Bachelor's Baby
1932 • Aunt Mary
Deadlock poster
Deadlock
1931 • Mrs. Tring
No Image
Die stärkere Macht
1929
The Hound of the Baskervilles poster
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1929 • Mrs. Barrymore
No Image
A South Sea Bubble
1928 • Mary Ottery
No Image
Quinneys
1927 • Susan Quinney
No Image
The House of Marney
1927
No Image
The Shadow of Egypt
1924 • Lilian Westcott
Comin' Thro the Rye poster
Comin' Thro the Rye
1923 • Helen Adair
Mist in the Valley poster
Mist in the Valley
1923 • Margaret Yeoland/'Heather Moreland'
Tansy poster
Tansy
1921 • Tansy Firle
No Image
Dollars in Surrey
1921
No Image
The Narrow Valley
1921 • Victoria
Helen of Four Gates poster
Helen of Four Gates
1920 • Helen
No Image
Anna the Adventuress
1920 • Anna / Annabel Pelissier
Broken in the Wars poster
Broken in the Wars
1919 • Lady Dorothea
The Leopard's Spots poster
The Leopard's Spots
1918 • The Woman
No Image
Molly Bawn
1916 • Eleanor Massareene
No Image
Annie Laurie
1916 • Annie Laurie
Comin' Thro' the Rye poster
Comin' Thro' the Rye
1916
No Image
The Outrage
1915
The Basilisk poster
The Basilisk
1914
Heart of Midlothian poster
Heart of Midlothian
1914 • Madge Wildfire
An Engagement of Convenience poster
An Engagement of Convenience
1914 • The Typist
David Copperfield poster
David Copperfield
1913 • Dora Spenlow
No Image
Oliver Twist
1912 • Nancy
Tilly in a Boarding House poster
Tilly in a Boarding House
1912 • Tilly
I Do Like to Be Where the Girls Are poster
I Do Like to Be Where the Girls Are
1912
A Seaside Introduction poster
A Seaside Introduction
1911 • The Girl
Tilly and the Fire Engines poster
Tilly and the Fire Engines
1911 • Tilly
Tilly's Party poster
Tilly's Party
1911 • Tilly
When Tilly's Uncle Flirted poster
When Tilly's Uncle Flirted
1911 • Tilly
Are We Down-Hearted? poster
Are We Down-Hearted?
1911
Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor poster
Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor
1910 • Tilly