Alma Taylor
Acting
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.
Known For
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
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
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
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
Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.
Tilly and the Fire Engines
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
Things Are Looking Up
A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....
Annie Laurie
An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.
The House of Marney
A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film.
Deadlock
'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)
A South Sea Bubble
A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.
An Engagement of Convenience
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
A European adventurer tries to steal from an ancient Egyptian tomb, only to become afflicted by a mysterious curse...
The Shadow of Egypt
'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)
Quinneys
One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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
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
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
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
A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.