# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilton-taylor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:31:21.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilton-taylor"
name: "Wilton Taylor"
slug: "wilton-taylor"
description: "Wilton Taylor was an American male actor who performed on stage and in silent films. He usually played gruff men of authority like wardens, judges or the police commissioner in Tod Browning's Outside the Law (1920). Of some other surviving silent he can be seen in Houdini's Terror Island (1920). Prior to entering films he spent some years on the stage and appeared as a police inspector in the original 1912 Broadway production of Within the Law starring Jane Cowl. Taylor died in January 1925."
tagline: "American stage and silent screen actor (1869-1925)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Lane_That_Had_No_Turning_lobby_card.jpg/330px-Lane_That_Had_No_Turning_lobby_card.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1869"
deathDate: "1925-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.18
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.468322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0853345/"
    handle:    "nm0853345"
sources:
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    title: "Wilton Taylor"
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    title: "ويلتون تايلور"
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    title: "ویلتون تیلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilton_Taylor"
    title: "Wilton Taylor"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19663047"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1381502"
    title: "Wilton Taylor"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump