Biography
William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) 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.Taylor's murder on 1 February 1922, along with other Hollywood scandals such as the Roscoe Arbuckle trial, led to a frenzy of sensationalist and often fabricated newspaper reports. The murder remains an official cold case.
Filmography
All 40
Movies 39
Director 33
TV Shows 1
Self 1
Self (archive footage)
Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime (2016)
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Director
The Top of New York (1922)
Movie
Director
The Green Temptation (1922)
Movie
Director
Morals (1921)
Movie
Director
Beyond (1921)
Movie
Director
Sacred and Profane Love (1921)
Movie
Director
The Witching Hour (1921)
Movie
Director
The Furnace (1920)
Movie
Director
The Soul of Youth (1920)
Movie
Director
Jenny Be Good (1920)
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Director
Nurse Marjorie (1920)
Movie
Director
Judy of Rogues' Harbor (1920)
Movie
Director
Huckleberry Finn (1920)
Movie
Director
Anne of Green Gables (1919)
Movie
Director
Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919)
Movie
Director
Johanna Enlists (1918)
Movie
Director
How Could You, Jean? (1918)
Movie
Director
Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1918)
Movie
Director
Up The Road With Sallie (1918)
Movie
Director
Huck and Tom (1918)
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Director
The Spirit of '17 (1918)
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Director
Tom Sawyer (1917)
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Director
Big Timber (1917)
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Director
The World Apart (1917)
Movie
Director
Redeeming Love (1916)
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Director
Her Father's Son (1916)
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Director
The House of Lies (1916)
Movie
Director
The Parson of Panamint (1916)
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Director
Davy Crockett (1916)
Movie
Director
The Heart of Paula (1916)
Movie
Director
Ben Blair (1916)
Movie
Director
He Fell in Love with His Wife (1916)
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Director
The Diamond from the Sky (1915)
Movie
Director
The Last Chapter (1914)
Movie
Robert W. Wainwright AKA Captain Alvarez
Captain Alvarez (1914)
Movie
Paul Langrois - An Artist
A Little Madonna (1914)
Movie
George Dale - A Society Man
The Kiss (1914)
Movie
George Blake
Anne of the Golden Heart (1914)
Movie
Reverend Cole
The Quakeress (1913)
Movie
The Southern Colonel
Granddad (1913)
Movie
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Information
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1872-04-26
Deathday1922-02-01 (49 years old)
Birth nameWilliam Cunningham Deane-Tanner
Place of birthCarlow, Republic of Ireland
SiblingsDenis Gage Deane-Tanner
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United States of America
Also known asFrank Marlo
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