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Alma Taylor

Alma Taylor

Actor · 1895–1974 · London, England, UK

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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.

Acted in 28

1930s

  1. 1936

    Everybody Dance

    Rosemary Spurgeon

  2. 1935

    Things Are Looking Up

    Schoolmistress

  3. 1931

    Deadlock

    Mrs. Tring

1920s

  1. 1929

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Mrs. Barrymore

  2. 1923

    Comin' Thro the Rye

    Helen Adair

  3. Mist in the Valley

    Margaret Yeoland/'Heather Moreland'

  4. 1921

    Tansy

    Tansy Firle

  5. 1920

    Helen of Four Gates

    Helen

1910s

  1. 1919

    Broken in the Wars

    Lady Dorothea

  2. 1918

    The Leopard's Spots

    The Woman

  3. 1916

    Comin' Thro' the Rye

    Movie

  4. 1914

    Heart of Midlothian

    Madge Wildfire

  5. An Engagement of Convenience

    The Typist

  6. 1913

    David Copperfield

    Dora Spenlow

  7. 1912

    Tilly in a Boarding House

    Tilly

  8. I Do Like to Be Where the Girls Are

    Movie

  9. Pygmalion and Galatea

    Movie

  10. 1911

    Tilly and the Fire Engines

    Tilly

  11. Tilly's Party

    Tilly

  12. When Tilly's Uncle Flirted

    Tilly

  13. 1910

    Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor

    Tilly

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  1. The Heart of a Fishergirl

    Susan