Ruth Alice Taylor (January 13, 1905 – April 12, 1984) was an American actress in silent films and early talkies.

After participating in amateur dramatics as a youth, Taylor persuaded her mother to bring her to Hollywood where the teenager spent a year working as an extra.

Taylor's final screen credits are roles in A Hint to Brides (1929), The College Coquette (1929), This Thing Called Love (1929), and Scrappily Married (1930).

Taylor married retired USAF Brigadier General and New York City stockbroker, Paul Steinberg Zuckerman on March 17, 1930.

[citation needed] Their son, Buck Henry, went on to become a famous comedian and screenwriter of such hits as The Graduate.