Alma Taylor - Actor Profile

Alma Taylor

42Movies
7.7 Best Rating

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.

Top Rated Movies

Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
1958 A Night to Remember old woman who leaves her seat to a young mother on the lifeboat (uncredited) ★ 7.7 Super Hit
1957 Blue Murder at St. Trinian's Prince Bruno's Mother ★ 6.7 Hit
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much Embassy Guest (uncredited) ★ 7.5 Super Hit
1956 Lost Mrs. Bellamy (Uncredited) ★ 6.2 Average
1955 Stock Car Nurse Sprott ★ 6.7 Hit
1954 Lilacs in the Spring 1st Woman ★ 5.5 Average
1936 Everybody Dance Rosemary Spurgeon ★ 6.0 Average
1935 Things Are Looking Up Schoolmistress ★ 6.0 Average
1932 Bachelor's Baby Aunt Mary ★ 0.0 Flop
1931 Deadlock Mrs. Tring ★ 0.0 Flop
1929 Die stärkere Macht - ★ 0.0 Flop
1929 The Hound of the Baskervilles Mrs. Barrymore ★ 6.8 Hit
1928 A South Sea Bubble Mary Ottery ★ 0.0 Flop
1927 Quinneys Susan Quinney ★ 0.0 Flop
1927 The House of Marney - ★ 0.0 Flop
1924 The Shadow of Egypt Lilian Westcott ★ 0.0 Flop
1923 Comin' Thro the Rye Helen Adair ★ 0.0 Flop
1923 Mist in the Valley Margaret Yeoland/'Heather Moreland' ★ 6.0 Average
1921 Tansy Tansy Firle ★ 0.0 Flop
1921 Dollars in Surrey - ★ 0.0 Flop
1921 The Narrow Valley Victoria ★ 0.0 Flop
1920 Helen of Four Gates Helen ★ 4.7 Flop
1920 Anna the Adventuress Anna / Annabel Pelissier ★ 0.0 Flop
1919 Broken in the Wars Lady Dorothea ★ 5.0 Flop
1918 The Leopard's Spots The Woman ★ 5.0 Flop
1916 Molly Bawn Eleanor Massareene ★ 0.0 Flop
1916 Annie Laurie Annie Laurie ★ 0.0 Flop
1916 Comin' Thro' the Rye - ★ 0.0 Flop
1915 The Outrage - ★ 0.0 Flop
1914 The Basilisk - ★ 0.0 Flop
1914 Heart of Midlothian Madge Wildfire ★ 0.0 Flop
1914 An Engagement of Convenience The Typist ★ 5.0 Flop
1913 David Copperfield Dora Spenlow ★ 1.0 Flop
1912 Oliver Twist Nancy ★ 1.0 Flop
1912 Tilly in a Boarding House Tilly ★ 6.0 Average
1912 I Do Like to Be Where the Girls Are - ★ 4.0 Flop
1911 A Seaside Introduction The Girl ★ 0.0 Flop
1911 Tilly and the Fire Engines Tilly ★ 4.6 Flop
1911 Tilly's Party Tilly ★ 4.5 Flop
1911 When Tilly's Uncle Flirted Tilly ★ 4.0 Flop
1911 Are We Down-Hearted? - ★ 4.0 Flop
1910 Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor Tilly ★ 5.0 Flop