Introduction
Alma Taylor (3 January 1895 – 23 January 1974) was a British actress.
Life
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 at the age of 79.
Selected filmography
- Oliver Twist (1912) as Nancy
- Adrift on Life's Tide (1913)
- David Copperfield (1913)
- The Cloister and the Hearth (1913)
- Justice (1914)
- The Heart of Midlothian (1914)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (1914)
- The Baby on the Barge (1915)
- The Golden Pavement (1915)
- The Man Who Stayed at Home (1915)
- Sweet Lavender (1915)
- The Bottle (1915)
- Molly Bawn (1916)
- Trelawny of the Wells (1916)
- Sowing the Wind (1916)
- The Grand Babylon Hotel (1916)
- Annie Laurie (1916)
- The American Heiress (1917)
- Nearer My God to Thee (1917)
- Boundary House (1918)
- The Forest on the Hill (1919)
- Broken in the Wars (1919)
- Sunken Rocks (1919)
- Sheba (1919)
- The Nature of the Beast (1919)
- Alf's Button (1920)
- Helen of Four Gates (1920)
- The Narrow Valley (1921)
- Tansy (1921)
- The Tinted Venus (1921)
- Dollars in Surrey (1921)
- Comin' Thro the Rye (1923)
- Mist in the Valley (1923)
- Strangling Threads (1923)
- Shadow of Egypt (1924)
- The House of Marney (1926)
- Two Little Drummer Boys (1928)
- A South Sea Bubble (1928)
- The Night of Terror (1929)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929)
- Things Are Looking Up (1935)
- Everybody Dance (1936)
- A Night to Remember (1958)