Alma Taylor

Acting

Alma Taylor

Born — Died

1895-01-02 — 1974-01-23

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

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 Murd…

Known for

The Man Who Knew Too Much poster
7.4

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1956

A Night to Remember poster
7.7

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

A Night to Remember

1958

Things Are Looking Up poster
6.5

A scatterbrained circus lady must cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.

Things Are Looking Up

1935

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's poster
6.8

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

1957

David Copperfield poster
5.5

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

David Copperfield

1913

Lilacs in the Spring poster
6.0

A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.

Lilacs in the Spring

1954

Film credits

1950s · 6 titles

The Man Who Knew Too Much poster
7.4

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1956

A Night to Remember poster
7.7

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

A Night to Remember

1958

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's poster
6.8

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

1957

Lilacs in the Spring poster
6.0

A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.

Lilacs in the Spring

1954

Lost poster
6.8

U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.

Lost

1956

Stock Car poster
7.2

Katie attempts to save her father's failing garage, after he is killed during a stock car race. She is assisted by an American driver, Larry Duke, but unfortunately one of the creditors is determined to take the garage.

Stock Car

1955

1920s · 13 titles

Tansy poster
8.0

'Devon. Farming brothers give home to orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.' (British Film Catalogue)

Tansy

1921

The Hound of the Baskervilles poster
6.9

One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1929

Mist in the Valley poster
7.5

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away from her family, but is reluctant to reveal the full story. Intent on concealing her identity from her pursuers, Denis coerces her into marrying him. But when the body of Margaret's missing father is discovered, it leads Denis to suspect his wife of murder.

Mist in the Valley

1923

Helen of Four Gates poster
5.8

HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly highly successful when it first opened, the film would later fall into obscurity, with all copies believed to be destroyed. In 2007, a print was discovered in a vault in Canada.

Helen of Four Gates

1920

No artwork available
8.0

'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)

Quinneys

1927

Comin' Thro the Rye poster
10.0

A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.

Comin' Thro the Rye

1923

No artwork available
9.0

A European adventurer tries to steal from an ancient Egyptian tomb, only to become afflicted by a mysterious curse...

The Shadow of Egypt

1924

No artwork available
7.0

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.

The House of Marney

1927

No artwork available
10.0

'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)

A South Sea Bubble

1928

No artwork available
10.0

The story of a small valley community that is narrow minded and those who wish to leave it on the train that regularly hurries from the narrow valley.

The Narrow Valley

1921

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die stärkere Macht

1929

No artwork available
9.0

Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.

Anna the Adventuress

1920

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dollars in Surrey

1921

1910s · 20 titles

David Copperfield poster
5.5

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

David Copperfield

1913

No artwork available
9.0

Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson. adaptation of the1878 Irish novel of the same name by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. Molly Bawn the novel by M. W. Hungerford contains her most famous idiom: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." It is also referenced in chapter 8 of James Joyce's Ulysses.

Molly Bawn

1916

No artwork available
1.0

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

Oliver Twist

1912

Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor poster
5.3

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as they go about their daily work, vandalising a bakery and taking a vehicle without consent - all in the space of six frenetic minutes.

Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor

1910

Tilly in a Boarding House poster
7.0

Girls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders.

Tilly in a Boarding House

1912

I Do Like to Be Where the Girls Are poster
4.0

Filmed using Vivaphone sound system. This was invented by Cecil M. Hepworth, and performers mimed to a 10" record.

I Do Like to Be Where the Girls Are

1912

No artwork available
4.0

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs.

Are We Down-Hearted?

1911

Comin' Thro' the Rye poster
10.0

A girl wins her rival's fiancé with a fake marriage announcement.

Comin' Thro' the Rye

1916

An Engagement of Convenience poster
6.0

A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.

An Engagement of Convenience

1914

Tilly's Party poster
5.8

Two young men help two girls escape.

Tilly's Party

1911

Broken in the Wars poster
7.0

'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)

Broken in the Wars

1919

Heart of Midlothian poster
8.0

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

Heart of Midlothian

1914

When Tilly's Uncle Flirted poster
7.0

Tomboys play tricks on their uncle when he flirts with a maid.

When Tilly's Uncle Flirted

1911

The Leopard's Spots poster
5.0

British propaganda piece warning against buying German goods after the war, summer 1918.

The Leopard's Spots

1918

Pygmalion and Galatea poster
NR

Story of Pygmalion and Galatea. Based on the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Pygmalion and Galatea

1912

Tilly and the Fire Engines poster
4.6

Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.

Tilly and the Fire Engines

1911

No artwork available
NR

A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.

The Outrage

1915

No artwork available
NR

A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....

Annie Laurie

1916

No artwork available
NR

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.

The Basilisk

1914

No artwork available
10.0

'Brighton. Dude searches for girl's lost shoes and stockings.' (British Film Catalogue)

A Seaside Introduction

1911

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