Wilton Taylor
American stage and silent screen actor (1869-1925) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 56
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).
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The Madness of YouthFilm1922
Broad DaylightFilm, Detective Marks
The Lane That Had No TurningFilm, 1922Joe Lajeunesse1921
Outside the LawFilm, Inspector
The Cave GirlFilm, 1921J.T. Bates
Traveling SalesmanFilm, 1921Martin Drury1920
Alias Jimmy ValentineFilm, Detective Doyle1919
Blackie's RedemptionFilm, Detective Mack
The Lottery ManFilm, 1919McGuire
Whom the Gods Would DestroyFilm, 19191918
Wild WomenFilm, Slugger Joe1917
The Gray GhostFilm, Ashby
The Spotted LilyFilm, 1917Angus Leeds1914After the BallFilm, Prisoner1869BornPeople around Wilton
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Victor Fleming Directed The Lane That Had No Turning (1922)
Lon Chaney Also in Treasure Island and Outside the Law
Henry King Directed One Hour Before Dawn (1920)
Tod Browning Produced Outside the Law (1922)
Adolph Zukor Produced The Lane That Had No Turning (1922)
Maurice Tourneur Directed Treasure Island (1921)
Jesse Louis Lasky Produced Terror Island (1920)
Eugene Pallette Also in Terror Island and Alias Jimmy Valentine
James Cruze Directed Terror Island (1920)
Priscilla Dean Also in The Gray Ghost and Outside the Law
May Allison Also in Peggy Does Her Darndest (1919)
Edmund Mortimer Directed Alias Jimmy Valentine (1922)
Sylvia Ashton Also in Peggy Does Her Darndest (1919)
Joseph Henabery Directed Traveling Salesman (1921)
Robert Thornby Directed The Prince and Betty and Half a Chance
Fred Huntley Also in Love Insurance and The Lottery Man
Marc Robbins Also in Alias Jimmy Valentine (1920)
Walter Woods Wrote The Love Burglar and Traveling Salesman
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About this person
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.
