
Kent Taylor
Actor
Born: May 11, 1907 (79 years old)
Died: April 11, 1987
Place of birth: Nashua, Iowa, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kent Taylor (May 11, 1907 – April 11, 1987) was an American actor. Born Louis William Weiss in Nashua, Iowa, Taylor appeared in more than 110 films, the bulk of them B-movies in the 1930s and 1940s, although he also had roles in more prestigious studio releases, including I'm No Angel (1933), Death Takes a Holiday (1934), Payment on Demand (1951), and Track the Man Down (1955). In the 1950s, with his movie career on the decline and television production on the upswing, he played the title role in 58 episodes of the detective series Boston Blackie and the lead in 39 episodes of ABC's The Rough Riders (1958–1959). Other small screen credits include My Little Margie, Tales of Wells Fargo, Zorro, Bat Masterson, Peter Gunn, and Hawaiian Eye. The last years of his career were spent in slasher and horror films with titles like Satan's Sadists, Blood of Ghastly Horror, I Spit on Your Corpse, and Hell's Bloody Devils. Taylor is interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kent Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (63)
- Slightly Scarlet (1956, ★ 6.2)
- I'm No Angel (1933, ★ 6.4)
- Death Takes a Holiday (1934, ★ 6.2)
- Law of the Lawless (1964, ★ 6.1)
- Double Door (1934, ★ 6.9)
- The Scarlet Empress (1934, ★ 6.9)
- Zorro (1957, ★ 7.5)
- Five Came Back (1939, ★ 6.2)
- The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939, ★ 5.6)
- One Hour with You (1932, ★ 6.5)
- Payment on Demand (1951, ★ 6.1)
- Two Girls on Broadway (1940, ★ 6.6)
- Gang War (1958, ★ 6.2)
- If I Had a Million (1932, ★ 6.6)
- White Woman (1933, ★ 5.7)
- Track the Man Down (1955, ★ 5.8)
- The Story of Temple Drake (1933, ★ 6.4)
- Merrily We Go to Hell (1932, ★ 6.4)
- Blonde Venus (1932, ★ 6.8)
- 77 Sunset Strip (1958, ★ 7)
- Mr. Lucky (1959, ★ 6.4)
- Land of the Giants (1968, ★ 6.8)
- Peter Gunn (1958, ★ 6.5)
- The Rifleman (1958, ★ 7.1)
- Laramie (1959, ★ 6.6)
- Girls for Rent (1974, ★ 4.6)
- Girl in 313 (1940, ★ 5.4)
- Brides of Blood (1968, ★ 4.7)
- Angels' Wild Women (1972, ★ 4.6)
- Western Pacific Agent (1950, ★ 5.4)