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Alma Taylor

Alma Taylor

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

A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember
1958 • old woman who leaves her seat to a young mother on the lifeboat (uncredited)
Blue Murder at St Trinian's
Blue Murder at St Trinian's
1957 • Prince Bruno's Mother
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 • Embassy Guest (uncredited)
Lost
Lost
1956 • Mrs. Bellamy (Uncredited)
Stock Car
Stock Car
1955 • Nurse Sprott
Lilacs in the Spring
Lilacs in the Spring
1954 • 1st Woman
Everybody Dance
Everybody Dance
1936 • Rosemary Spurgeon
Things Are Looking Up
Things Are Looking Up
1935 • Schoolmistress

Full filmography

A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember
1958 • old woman who leaves her seat to a young mother on the lifeboat (uncredited)
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Blue Murder at St Trinian's
Blue Murder at St Trinian's
1957 • Prince Bruno's Mother
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 • Embassy Guest (uncredited)
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Lost
Lost
1956 • Mrs. Bellamy (Uncredited)
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Stock Car
Stock Car
1955 • Nurse Sprott
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Everybody Dance
Everybody Dance
1936 • Rosemary Spurgeon
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Things Are Looking Up
Things Are Looking Up
1935 • Schoolmistress
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Bachelor's Baby
1932 • Aunt Mary
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Deadlock
Deadlock
1931 • Mrs. Tring
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A South Sea Bubble
1928 • Mary Ottery
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Quinneys
1927 • Susan Quinney
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The Shadow of Egypt
1924 • Lilian Westcott
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Comin' Thro the Rye
Comin' Thro the Rye
1923 • Helen Adair
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Mist in the Valley
Mist in the Valley
1923 • Margaret Yeoland/'Heather Moreland'
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Tansy
Tansy
1921 • Tansy Firle
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Anna the Adventuress
1920 • Anna / Annabel Pelissier
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Broken in the Wars
Broken in the Wars
1919 • Lady Dorothea
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Molly Bawn
1916 • Eleanor Massareene
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Annie Laurie
1916 • Annie Laurie
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Heart of Midlothian
Heart of Midlothian
1914 • Madge Wildfire
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David Copperfield
David Copperfield
1913 • Dora Spenlow
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