Alma Taylor

For the Mormon missionary, see Alma O. Taylor.

Alma Louise Taylor (3 January 1895 – 23 January 1974) was a British actress.

Alma Taylor
Born	Alma Louise Taylor (1895-01-03)3 January 1895 London, England
Died	23 January 1974(1974-01-23) (aged 79) London, England
Years active	1907–1958
Spouse	Leonard Avery

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. She is best remembered for her role as Tilly in the long-running "Tilly the Tomboy" series (1910-1915). In 1915 she was voted the most popular British performer by readers of Pictures and the Picturegoers, comfortably beating Charlie Chaplin into second place.^[1]

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. On television, she appeared twice in Armchair Theatre, in 1957: she played Mrs. Castor and Greta Stenbourg.

She died in London at the age of 79.^[2]

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1907	His Daughter's Voice		Short
1910	The Burglar and Little Phyllis	Phyllis	Short
1911	Tilly at the Election	Tilly	Short
1912	Oliver Twist	Nancy
1913	Adrift on Life's Tide	Edna Wilson	Short
	David Copperfield	Dora Spenlow
	The Cloister and the Hearth	Margaret
1914	Justice	Nan Prescott
	The Heart of Midlothian	Madge Wildfire
	The Old Curiosity Shop	Mrs. Quilp
1915	The Baby on the Barge	Nelly Janis	Short
	The Golden Pavement	Brenda Crayle
	The Man Who Stayed at Home	Molly Preston
	Sweet Lavender	Ruth Rolfe
	The Bottle
1916	Molly Bawn	Eleanor Massareene
	The Marriage of William Ashe	Lady Kitty Bristol
	Trelawny of the Wells	Rose Trelawny
	Sowing the Wind	Rosamond
	The Grand Babylon Hotel	Princess Anna
	Annie Laurie	Annie Laurie	Short
1917	The American Heiress	Bessie	Short
	Nearer My God to Thee	Joan
1918	The Touch of a Child	Barbara Dell
	The Leopard's Spots	The Woman	Short
	A New Version	The Woman	Short
	Boundary House	Jenny Gay
1919	The Forest on the Hill	Drusilla Whyddon
	Broken in the Wars	Lady Dorothea Hamlyn	Short
	Sunken Rocks	Evelyn Farrar
	Sheba	Sheba
	The Nature of the Beast	Anna de Berghem
1920	Alf's Button	Liz
	Helen of Four Gates	Helen
	Mrs. Erricker's Reputation	Georgiana Erricker
1921	The Narrow Valley	Victoria
	Tansy	Tansy Firle
	The Tinted Venus	Matilda Collum
	Dollars in Surrey
1923	The Pipes of Pan	Polly Bunning
	Comin' Thro the Rye	Helen Adair
	Mist in the Valley	Margaret Yeoland
	Strangling Threads	Irma Brian
1924	Shadow of Egypt	Lilian Westcott
1926	The House of Marney	Beatrice Maxon
1927	Quinneys	Susan Quinney
1928	Two Little Drummer Boys	Alma Carsdale
	A South Sea Bubble	Mary Ottery
1929	The Night of Terror
	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Mrs. Barrymore
1931	Deadlock	Mrs. Tring
1932	Bachelor's Baby	Aunt Mary
1935	Things Are Looking Up	Schoolmistress	Uncredited
1936	Everybody Dance	Rosemary Spurgeon
1954	Lilacs in the Spring	1st Woman
1955	Stock Car	Nurse Sprott
1956	Lost	Mrs. Bellamy	Uncredited
	The Man Who Knew Too Much	Embassy Guest	Uncredited
1957	Blue Murder at St Trinian's	Prince Bruno's Mother
1958	A Night to Remember	Old Lady	Final film role

Bibliography

• Babington, Bruce. British stars and stardom: from Alma Taylor to Sean Connery. Manchester University Press, 2001.