# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-desmond-taylor
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:07:42.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-desmond-taylor"
name: "William Desmond Taylor"
slug: "william-desmond-taylor"
description: "William Desmond Taylor was an Anglo-Irish-American film director and actor. A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion picture colony of the 1910s and early 1920s, Taylor directed fifty-nine silent films between 1914 and 1922 and acted in twenty-seven between 1913 and 1915."
tagline: "Irish-American film director and actor (1872-1922)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Williamdesmondtaylor.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1872-04-26"
deathDate: "1922-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.38155333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0853336/"
    handle:    "nm0853336"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump