
Alma Taylor
Acting
From Wikipedia Alma Taylor (3 January 1895 β 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
1958A Night to Remember
old woman who leaves her seat to a young mother on the lifeboat (uncredited)
1957Blue Murder at St Trinian's
Prince Bruno's Mother
1956The Man Who Knew Too Much
Embassy Guest (uncredited)
1956Lost
Mrs. Bellamy (Uncredited)
1955Stock Car
Nurse Sprott
1954Lilacs in the Spring
1st Woman
1936Everybody Dance
Rosemary Spurgeon
1935Things Are Looking Up
Schoolmistress
1931Deadlock
Mrs. Tring
1929The Hound of the Baskervilles
Mrs. Barrymore
1923Comin' Thro the Rye
Helen Adair
1923Mist in the Valley
Margaret Yeoland/'Heather Moreland'
1921Tansy
Tansy Firle
1920Helen of Four Gates
Helen
1919Broken in the Wars
Lady Dorothea
1918The Leopard's Spots
The Woman
1916Comin' Thro' the Rye
1914The Basilisk
1914An Engagement of Convenience
The Typist
1914Heart of Midlothian
Madge Wildfire
1913David Copperfield
Dora Spenlow
1912Tilly in a Boarding House
Tilly
1912I Do Like to Be Where the Girls Are
1911Tilly's Party
Tilly