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.
Filmography
A Night to Remember
1958
as old woman who leaves her seat to a young mother on the lifeboat (uncredited)
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
1957
as Prince Bruno's Mother
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
as Embassy Guest (uncredited)
Lost
1956
as Mrs. Bellamy (Uncredited)
Stock Car
1955
as Nurse Sprott
Lilacs in the Spring
1954
as 1st Woman
Everybody Dance
1936
as Rosemary Spurgeon
Things Are Looking Up
1935
as Schoolmistress
- No poster
Bachelor's Baby
1932
as Aunt Mary
Deadlock
1931
as Mrs. Tring
- No poster
Die stärkere Macht
1929
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1929
as Mrs. Barrymore
- No poster
A South Sea Bubble
1928
as Mary Ottery
- No poster
Quinneys
1927
as Susan Quinney
- No poster
The House of Marney
1927
- No poster
The Shadow of Egypt
1924
as Lilian Westcott
Comin' Thro the Rye
1923
as Helen Adair
Mist in the Valley
1923
as Margaret Yeoland/'Heather Moreland'
Tansy
1921
as Tansy Firle
- No poster
Dollars in Surrey
1921
- No poster
The Narrow Valley
1921
as Victoria
Helen of Four Gates
1920
as Helen
- No poster
Anna the Adventuress
1920
as Anna / Annabel Pelissier
Broken in the Wars
1919
as Lady Dorothea