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Alma Taylor

b. 1895 — d. 1974 (aged 79) London, England, UK

Actress Writer

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

Iris

Trelawny of the Wells

Filmography

Look at Life: The Cinema Steps Out

Stock Car

Let's Make Up

Everybody Dance

Everybody Dance

House of Dreams

Bachelor's Baby

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Die Nacht des Schreckens

A South Sea Bubble

Two Little Drummer Boys

The House of Marney

Shadow of Egypt

Shadow of Egypt

Mist in the Valley

Mist in the Valley

Comin' Thro' the Rye

Comin' Thro' the Rye

The Pipes of Pan

Strangling Threads

Strangling Threads

Tansy

Dollars in Surrey

The Tinted Venus

The Narrow Valley

Helen of Four Gates

Helen of Four Gates

Mrs. Erricker's Reputation

Anna the Adventuress

The Forest on the Hill

Broken in the Wars

Sunken Rocks

The Nature of the Beast

The Leopard's Spots

The Leopard's Spots

The W.L.A. Girl

The Touch of a Child

Merely Mrs. Stubbs

Nearer My God to Thee

The American Heiress

Comin' Thro' the Rye

Comin' Thro' the Rye

The Grand Babylon Hotel

Trelawny of the Wells

Sowing the Wind

The Man at the Wheel

Iris

The Marriage of William Ashe

1916 Actress Writer

The Man Who Stayed at Home

Who Stole Pa's Purse?

1915 Self Actress

The Painted Lady Betty

A Lancashire Lass

Tilly and the Nut

A Moment of Darkness

The Baby on the Barge

Things We Want to Know

The Golden Pavement

Be Sure Your Sins

The Passing of a Soul

Jill and the Old Fiddle

An Engagement of Convenience

An Engagement of Convenience

Aladdin: or, a Lad Out

The Price of Fame

Blind Fate

His Great Opportunity

His Country's Bidding

The Girl Who Lived in Straight Street

The Schemers: or, The Jewels of Hate

In the Shadow of Big Ben

The Kleptomaniac

Time the Great Healer

The Awakening of Nora

The Whirr of the Spinning Wheel

The Whirr of the Spinning Wheel

The Hills Are Calling

Morphia the Death Drug

Over the Garden Wall

The Quality of Mercy

Tilly at the Football Match

The Heart of Midlothian

The Double Event

David Copperfield

David Copperfield

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop

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