Totti Truman Taylor

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]

Totti Truman Taylor in TV's Scotland Yard, episode: The Lonely House (1957)

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