Totti Truman Taylor (born Dorothy Leah Truman, 7 September 1915 – 5 March 1981) was a British actress.[1] She took her stage name from her mother’s second husband’s surname. In 1953, she played Aunt Sally in the BBC television series Worzel Gummidge Turns Detective.[2] She also played various roles in Hancock's Half Hour.[3]
Truman Taylor was born in the Mapperley Park area of Nottingham, and died at Denville Hall, Northwood in Middlesex, on 5 March 1981, at the age of 65.[4]
Selected filmography
- Passenger to Tokyo, Scotland Yard series (1954) Series 1 Ep 10 as Headmistress
- Eight O'Clock Walk (1954) as Miss Ribden-White
- The Crowded Day (1954) as Ernest's wife
- The French, They Are a Funny Race (1955) as Miss Fyfyth, the nurse
- Not So Dusty (1956) as Charlotte Duncan
- Town on Trial (1957)
- Rx Murder (1958)
- Undercover Girl (1958)
- Them Nice Americans (1958)
- Moment of Indiscretion (1958)
- There Was a Crooked Man (1960) as woman in a taxi
- Compelled (1960) as lady
- The Gentle Terror (1961) as Mrs. Connor
- Crooks Anonymous (1962)
- Band of Thieves (1962)
- A Stitch in Time (1963) as rich woman throwing a bracelet
- Delayed Flight (1964) as doctor
- The Wrong Box (1966) as lady at launching
- Press for Time (1966) as Mrs. Doe Connor
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) as duchess
- A Nice Girl Like Me (1969) as Miss Charter
- Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) as elderly lady