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April 26, 1872 · Carlow, Ireland. Died. February 1, 1922 · Los Angeles, California, USA (homicide) Birth name. William Cunningham Deane-Tanner. Height. 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Bio. Born in Carlow, Ireland. Came to USA c. 1890. Worked as stage actor, engineer, antique dealer, gold miner.
Nov 13, 2009 · February | 2. Choose another date. 1922. Director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered. Police discover the body of film director William Desmond Taylor in his Los Angeles bungalow....
Jul 22, 1990 · July 22, 1990 12 AM PT. </i> An hour after sunset on Feb. 1, 1922, while smudge pots warmed nearby orange groves and a streetcar rattled through Westlake Park, a killer lurked in the shadows behind...
Jan 26, 2022 · Updated / Wednesday, 26 Jan 2022 16:37. Filmmaker William Desmond Taylor, whose murder remains a mystery. Marking the centenary of of a case considered to be Hollywood's greatest real-life...
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 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 ...
Irish-born filmmaker William Desmond Taylor gained as much notoriety in death as he had during his life in Hollywood's early years. He began his career as an actor in 1912; his biggest role was the lead in Vitagraph's Captain Alvarez. In 1914, Taylor began directing feature films.
