
Biography
William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, 26 April 1872 β 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)
TV Show
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)
Movie
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)
Movie
Director

The Spirit of '17 (1918)
Movie
Director

Tom Sawyer (1917)
Movie
Director

Big Timber (1917)
Movie
Director

The World Apart (1917)
Movie
Director

Redeeming Love (1916)
Movie
Director

Her Father's Son (1916)
Movie
Director

The House of Lies (1916)
Movie
Director

The Parson of Panamint (1916)
Movie
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)
Movie
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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