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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 ...
- Homicide by gunshot
- Irish (1872–1890), American (1890–1922)
William Desmond Taylor, nato William Cunningham Deane-Tanner (Carlow, 26 aprile 1872 – Los Angeles, 1º febbraio 1922), è stato un regista, attore e produttore cinematografico irlandese naturalizzato statunitense, molto attivo durante l'epoca del cinema muto soprattutto nel decennio 1910-1920.
21 mag 2018 · William Desmond Taylor was shot in his home in the middle of the night and his death – in the midst of a slew of showbusiness scandals – led to the start of people’s interest in the sensationalized inner-workings of Hollywood.
- Kara Goldfarb
In Sidney D. Kirkpatrick's book Cast of Killers (1986), largely based on research and interviews conducted by Director King Vidor who was fascinated with the Taylor case, it is theorized that Charlotte Shelby, mother of Mary Miles Minter, killed William Desmond Taylor.
29 set 2023 · She is the author of Tula, a novel set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, plus the Sam Smith Mystery Series and the Eve’s War Heroines of SOE series. William Desmond Taylor was even more a man of mystery in death than he was in life. The actor and director’s murder remains unsolved.
7 dic 2023 · Alongside the Fatty Arbuckle trials and a couple of other scandals, the murder of William Desmond Taylor became a rallying point against Hollywood for those who decried its licentiousness and called it the “American Sodom and Gomorrah.”
13 nov 2009 · 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 Street home of...
