Don Taylor
Born: 1920-12-13 in Freeport, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1998-12-29
Known For: Directing
Biography
Donald Richie Taylor (December 13, 1920 – December 29, 1998) was an American actor and film director. He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17. He later turned to directing films such as Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Tom Sawyer (1973), Echoes of a Summer (1976), and Damien: Omen II (1978). Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Mrs. Weekley's Lover ... (Director)
2010
- Holy Wars as Himself
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
1990
- Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death ... (Director)
1988
- The Diamond Trap ... (Director)
1987
- Ghost of a Chance ... (Director)
1986
- Classified Love ... (Director)
1985
- Theatre Night ... (Director)
- Secret Weapons ... (Director)
- My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn ... (Teleplay)
- Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story ... (Director)
1984
- Man Hunt
- He's Not Your Son ... (Director)
1983
- September Gun ... (Director)
- Ghost Dancing ... (Director)
- Listen to Your Heart ... (Director)
1982
- Drop-Out Father ... (Director)
1981
- Broken Promise ... (Producer)
- Red Flag: The Ultimate Game ... (Director)
1980
- The Final Countdown ... (Director)
- The Promise of Love ... (Director)
- In Hiding ... (Director)
1979
- The Gift ... (Director)
1978
- The BBC Television Shakespeare ... (Director)
- Damien - Omen II ... (Director)
- When the Actors Come ... (Writer)
- For Tea on Sunday ... (Director)
1977
- The Island of Dr. Moreau ... (Director)
- The Achurch Letters ... (Director)
- A Circle of Children ... (Director)
1976
- Echoes of a Summer ... (Director)
- The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday ... (Director)
- Dad ... (Director)
- The Hemingway Play ... (Director)
1975
- Private Affairs ... (Director)
1974
- Petrocelli ... (Director)
- Honky Tonk ... (Director)
- Night Games ... (Director)
1973
- Tom Sawyer ... (Director)
1972
- The Man Hunter ... (Director)
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
- Heat of Anger ... (Director)
1971
- Cannon ... (Director)
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes ... (Director)
1970
- Night Gallery ... (Director)
- Wild Women ... (Director)
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre ... (Director)
- The 5-Man Army as Poker Player (uncredited)
1968
- The Name of the Game ... (Director)
- The Mod Squad ... (Director)
- Something for a Lonely Man ... (Director)
1967
- Mannix ... (Director)
- The Flying Nun ... (Director)
- The Danny Thomas Hour ... (Director)
- The Enemy ... (Director)
- Jack of Diamonds ... (Director)
1966
- The Tammy Grimes Show ... (Director)
- Preview Tonight ... (Director)
1965
- The Wild Wild West ... (Director)
- The Big Valley ... (Director)
- The Loner ... (Director)
- Amos Burke: Secret Agent ... (Director)
- And Did Those Feet ? ... (Director)
1964
- The Wednesday Play ... (Director)
- The Rogues ... (Director)
- Ride the Wild Surf ... (Director)
1963
- Burke's Law as George Hogarth
- The Lieutenant ... (Director)
- Vacation Playhouse ... (Director)
- The Farmer's Daughter ... (Director)
1962
- Ensign O'Toole ... (Director)
- The Winter's Tale ... (Director)
1961
- Dr. Kildare ... (Director)
- 87th Precinct ... (Director)
- The New Breed as Fred Kingman
- The Dick Powell Show ... (Director)
- Follow the Sun ... (Director)
- The Savage Guns as Mike Summers
- Everything's Ducky ... (Director)
1959
- Johnny Ringo ... (Director)
- Dennis the Menace ... (Director)
- Tightrope ... (Director)
- Peck's Bad Girl ... (Director)
1958
- The Rifleman ... (Director)
- Steve Canyon ... (Director)
1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel ... (Director)
- M Squad ... (Director)
- Alcoa Theatre ... (Director)
- Bachelor Father ... (Director)
- Love Slaves of the Amazons as Dr. Pete L. Masters
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Yankee
- Telephone Time
- Hey, Jeannie! ... (Director)
- Ride The High Iron as Hugo Danielchik
- The Bold and the Brave as Ewald "Preacher" Wallister
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Prof. Donald Mason
- I'll Cry Tomorrow as Wallie
1954
- Climax! as John Appleby
- Summer Playhouse ... (Director)
- Johnny Dark as Duke Benson
- The Men of Sherwood Forest as Robin Hood
1953
- Stalag 17 as Lt. James Dunbar
- General Electric Theater as Bob Farrell
- The Girls of Pleasure Island as Lt. Jimmy Gilmartin
- Destination Gobi as Jenkins
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Bob Lawrence
- Japanese War Bride as Jim Sterling
1951
- Father's Little Dividend as Buckley Dunstan
- Flying Leathernecks as Lt. Vern 'Cowboy' Blithe
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Dr. Soames
- Submarine Command as Lt. Cmdr. Peter Morris
- Target Unknown as Lt. Frank Webster
- The Blue Veil as Dr. Robert Palfrey
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Mark Pine
- Lux Video Theatre as Roger
- Father of the Bride as Buckley Dunstan
- Ambush as Lt. Linus Delaney
1949
- Battleground as Standiferd
1948
- Studio One ... (Director)
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- The Naked City as Jimmy Halloran
- For the Love of Mary as David Paxton
1947
- Song of the Thin Man as Buddy Hollis
1945
- The Last Bomb as Gunner
- Time to Kill as George
1944
- Winged Victory as Danny 'Pinkie' Scariano
1943
- Swing Shift Maisie as Young Pilot (Uncredited)