Alma Tell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1898-03-27 (39 years old)

Deathday

1937-12-29

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Alma Tell

Biography

From Wikipedia Alma Tell (March 27, 1898 - December 29, 1937) was an American stage and motion picture actress whose career in cinema began in 1915 and lasted into the talkie era of the early 1930s. She began her career as an actress on the stages of New York before making her screen debut in the Edward José-directed drama Simon, the Jester, released in September 1915. Tell was most often cast in films as the second leading lady. Throughout the 1920s, she appeared opposite such leading silent film actresses as Mae Murray, Corinne Griffith and Madge Kennedy and would achieve leading lady status in 1923's J. Gordon Edwards-directed film The Si...

Acting

1916

The Smugglers

as Mrs. Watts

1930

Love Comes Along

as Carlotta

1923

The Silent Command

as Mrs. Richard Decatur

1934

Imitation of Life

as Mrs. Craven (uncredited)

1929

1922

Broadway Rose

as Barbara Royce

1921

The Iron Trail

as Eliza Appleton

1921

Paying the Piper

as Marcia Marillo

1920

The Right to Love

as Lady Edith

1920

On with the Dance

as Lady Tremelyn

1917

Nearly Married

as Gertrude Robinson

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