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Donald Ritchie Taylor (December 13, 1920 – December 29, 1998) was an American actor and film director. He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including the 1948 film noir The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17.
Don Taylor. Actor: Stalag 17. Born in Freeport, Pennsylvania, Don Taylor studied law, then speech and drama at Penn State University, where as a freshman he began taking part in college stage productions.
Don Taylor. Actor: Stalag 17. Born in Freeport, Pennsylvania, Don Taylor studied law, then speech and drama at Penn State University, where as a freshman he began taking part in college stage productions. Hitchhiking to Hollywood in 1942, the youthful Taylor screen-tested at Warner Brothers but was rejected because of his draft status.
Jan 6, 1999 · HANDSOME AND affable, the actor, director and writer Don Taylor, who played the fiance of Elizabeth Taylor in the classic comedy Father of the Bride, spent over a decade portraying clean-cut,...
Dec 29, 1998 · Donald Richie Taylor (December 13, 1920 – December 29, 1998) was an American actor and film director. He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17.
Dec 31, 1998 · Don Taylor, actor best known for war films of the 1940s and 1950s, including “Stalag 17,” and director of such science fiction favorites as “Escape From the Planet of the Apes,” has died. He...
Don Taylor may forever be the answer to the trivia question: "Who played the role of the groom in the original 'Father of the Bride' (1950)?," but his more durable career came as a director of features and TV movies from the early 1960s well into the 80s.
Jan 2, 1999 · Don Taylor, a film actor of the 1940's and 50's who later turned to directing, died on Tuesday at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 78 and lived in Santa Monica, Calif. The...
Dec 31, 1998 · By Eric Olson. Actor-director-writer Don Taylor, who played Elizabeth Taylor’s bridegroom in “Father of the Bride” and went on to helm such features as “Escape From the Planet of the Apes”...
Returning to civilian life, Taylor resumed his work in pictures with a top role in the trend-setting crime drama The Naked City (1948). In later years Taylor became a film and TV director, being nominated for an Emmy for his direction of an episode of The Farmer's Daughter.
