Alma Taylor

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1895-01-02

Deathday 1974-01-23 (79 years old)

Place of Birth London, England, UK

Also Known As Alma Louise Taylor

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

Actor

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
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
1928
A South Sea Bubble

as Mary Ottery

1927
Quinneys

as Susan Quinney

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
The Narrow Valley

as Victoria

1920
1920
Anna the Adventuress

as Anna / Annabel Pelissier

1919
Broken in the Wars

as Lady Dorothea

1918
The Leopard's Spots

as The Woman

1916
Annie Laurie

as Annie Laurie

1913
David Copperfield

as Dora Spenlow

1912
Oliver Twist

as Nancy

1911
1911
Tilly's Party

as Tilly

Writer

1916
Annie Laurie

as Writer