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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1895-01-02 (130 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

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

Acting

1958

A Night to Remember as old woman who leaves her seat to a young mother on the lifeboat (uncredited)

1957

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's as Prince Bruno's Mother

1956

The Man Who Knew Too Much as Embassy Guest (uncredited)
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

1924

Shadow of Egypt as Lilian Westcott

1923

Comin' Thro the Rye as Helen Adair
Mist in the Valley as Margaret Yeoland/'Heather Moreland'

1921

The Narrow Valley as Victoria
Tansy as Tansy Firle

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
Molly Bawn as Eleanor Massareene

1915

1914

1913

David Copperfield as Dora Spenlow

1912

1911

1910

Writing

1916

Annie Laurie as Writer