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William Desmond Taylor
Deceased

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Life & Death

Died aged 49
Also known asFrank Marlo, William Cunningham Deane-TannerGenderMaleNationalityUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandBorn26/04/1872Born inCarlow, IrelandDied01/02/1922 (aged 49)Died inWestlakeCausegunshot woundWikidataQ1365430 ↗Buried atHollywood Forever CemeteryTMDb#1087693 ↗

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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Filmography8 titles

YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
1990Death In HollywoodMovie—118
1988Hollywood Scandals and TragediesMovie(archive footage) (uncredited)116
1914The Last ChapterMovie—42
1914The KissMovieGeorge Dale - a Society Man42
1914Anne of the Golden HeartMovieGeorge Blake42
1914A Little MadonnaMoviePaul Langrois42
1913GranddadMovieThe Southern Colonel41
1913The QuakeressMovieReverend Cole41