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William Desmond Taylor

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Irish-American film director and actor (1872-1922)

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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.

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Taylor (left) directing May McAvoy in the silent film Top of New York (1921), several months before his deathTaylor (left) directing May McAvoy in the silent film Top of New York (1921), several months before his deathTaylor in a 1920 photograph addressed to actress Mary Miles MinterTaylor in a 1920 photograph addressed to actress Mary Miles MinterEdward F SandsEdward F SandsHenry PeaveyHenry PeaveyMabel NormandMabel NormandMary Miles MinterMary Miles MinterCharlotte ShelbyCharlotte Shelby

Filmography 40

Johanna Enlists1918
Death Scenes1989
The Soul of Youth1920
Tom Sawyer1917
Granddad1913
Death In Hollywood1990
Nurse Marjorie1920
Huckleberry Finn1920
Wealth1921
Murders of Hollywood2003
Davy Crockett1916
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files1992
The Kiss1914
Anne of Green Gables1919
Sacred and Profane Love1921
Anne of the Golden Heart1914
The Top of New York1922
The Witching Hour1921
Judy of Rogues' Harbor1920
Beyond1921
The Furnace1920
Jenny Be Good1920
The Green Temptation1922
Morals1921
Pasquale1916
The Varmint1917
His Majesty, Bunker Bean1918
Jack and Jill1917
The World Apart1917
Huck and Tom1918
North of Fifty-Three1917
A Little Madonna1914
Happiness of Three Women1917
The American Beauty1916
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies1988
Out of the Wreck1917
Redeeming Love1916
The Parson of Panamint1916
Up The Road With Sallie1918
How Could You, Jean?1918

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Lucy Maud MontgomeryAlso in Anne of Green Gables (1919)Arnold BennettAlso in Sacred and Profane Love (1921)Mildred HarrisAlso in Granddad (1913)Jean AckerAlso in Wealth (1921)Jack PickfordAlso in Tom Sawyer (1917)Esther RalstonAlso in Huckleberry Finn (1920)

About this person

Country
United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1872 to 1922 · aged 49
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