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May 21, 2018 · William Desmond Taylor was born in Carlow, Ireland on April 26, 1872. He was sent to a finishing school in Kansas when he was 18 and fell in love with America. Between 1914 and 1915, he landed roles in several silent films and made his directorial debut with The Awakening. Over the next seven years, with a stint in the Army during the end of ...
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May 21, 2021 · Mabel Normand (Photo Credit: Unknown Photographer / Wikimedia Commons) Taylor’s valet arrived at the apartment at 7:30 a.m. the next day to make him breakfast. Upon entering the residence, he found Taylor dead on the floor with blood around his mouth.
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.
4 days ago · William Desmond Taylor is considered a star director of Hollywood's silent film era.However, for many, his professional success is overshadowed by the tragedy of his murder, which remains unsolved ...
Mar 5, 2024 · Contributor. @IrishCentral. Mar 05, 2024. William Desmond Taylor. Albert Witzel / Creative Commons. Over one hundred years ago, Hollywood was stunned by the murder of Irish film director William ...
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Nov 13, 2009 · February | 2. Police discover the body of film director William Desmond Taylor in his Los Angeles bungalow. Lieutenant Tom Ziegler responded to a call about a “natural death” at the Alvarado ...
Jun 1, 1986 · MURDER, ALL THREE OF THEM WROTE. By BRENDA DAY. June 1, 1986 12 AM PT. </i>. The director lay face up on the floor of 404-B S. Alvarado St. He was a famous movie man--but he wasn’t playing dead ...
