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Apr 26, 1872 Carlow, Leinster, Ireland Died on 01 Feb 1922 (aged 49)
Irish-American film director, actor and murder victim
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About William Desmond Taylor
- William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Anglo-Irish-American director and actor.
- A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion picture colony of the 1910s and early 1920s, he directed 59 silent films between 1914 and 1922 and acted in 27 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.
