Alma Taylor
Nacimiento : 1895-01-03, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1974-01-23
Historia
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.
Prince Bruno's Mother
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.
Embassy Guest (uncredited)
Una familia americana, compuesta por el doctor Ben MacKenna, su mujer y su hijo Hank, está pasando unas vacaciones en Marruecos. Tras la muerte de un espía en brazos de Ben, mientras visitaban el mercado de Marrakech, el matrimonio descubre que su hijo ha sido secuestrado. Sin saber en quién confiar, los MacKenna se ven envueltos en una angustiosa pesadilla que tiene que ver con una operación de espionaje internacional.
Mrs. Bellamy (Uncredited)
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.
Nurse Sprott
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.
1st Woman
Una joven actriz debe decidir cuál de sus dos amantes será su marido. Ella sueña despierta sobre quién de los dos es mejor, imaginándoselos como nobles, para así poderse decidir.
Rosemary Spurgeon
When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes her new family to a farm. However, her greedy manager--seeing his "cash cow" slipping away--goes to court to have her declared legally incompetent.
Schoolmistress
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
Aunt Mary
Jimmy finds an abandoned baby while motorcycling in the country.
Mrs. Tring
A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film.
Mrs. Barrymore
One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.
An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.
Lilian Westcott
A European adventurer tries to steal from an ancient Egyptian tomb, only to become afflicted by a mysterious curse...
Helen Adair
A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.
Margaret Yeoland
An ex-nun weds an amnesia victim and is framed for killing her usurping uncle who posed as her father.
Tansy Firle
'Devon. Farming brothers give home to orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.' (British Film Catalogue)
Helen
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.
Anna / Annabel Pelissier
Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.
Lady Dorothea
'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Woman
British propaganda piece warning against buying German goods after the war, summer 1918.
Annie Laurie
A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....
Writer
A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....
A girl wins her rival's fiancé with a fake marriage announcement.
A Prussian lieutenant rapes a girl in 1870. He is killed by their son in 1914.
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 Typist
A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.
Dora Spenlow
Nancy
An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Tilly
Girls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders.
Filmed using Vivaphone sound system. This was invented by Cecil M. Hepworth, and performers mimed to a 10" record.
The Girl
'Brighton. Dude searches for girl's lost shoes and stockings.' (British Film Catalogue)
Tilly
Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.
Tilly
Two young men help two girls escape.
Tilly
Tomboys play tricks on their uncle when he flirts with a maid.
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.
Tilly
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.
