Kent Taylor
Born: 1907-05-11 in Nashua, Iowa, USA
Died: 1987-04-11
Known For: Acting
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
1991
- The Crawling Hand as Dr. Max Weitberg
1974
- The Phantom of Hollywood as Wickes
- Girls for Rent as Moreno
1972
- Angels' Wild Women as Parker
1971
- Brain of Blood as Dr. Trenton
1970
- Hell's Bloody Devils as Count von Delberg
1969
- Satan's Sadists as Lew
- The Mighty Gorga as Tonga Jack Adams
1968
- Land of the Giants as Doc Jelko
- Brides of Blood as Dr. Paul Henderson
1967
- Rango
- Blood of Ghastly Horror as Elton Corey
1964
- Law of the Lawless as Attorney Rand McDonald
1963
- The Day Mars Invaded Earth as Dr. David Fielding
- Harbor Lights as Dan Crown
- The Crawling Hand as Dr. Max Weitzberg
1962
- The Broken Land as Marshal Jim Cogan
- The Firebrand as Maj. Tim Bancroft
1961
- The Purple Hills as Johnny Barnes
1960
- Walk Tall as Frank Carter
1959
- Hawaiian Eye as Adam Kendricks
- Laramie
- Riverboat as Morrell
- Mr. Lucky
- Tightrope
1958
- The Rifleman
- Bat Masterson as John Martin / Gabilan
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Peter Gunn
- Bronco
- The Rough Riders
- Fort Bowie as Col. James Garrett
- Gang War as Bryce Barker, Meadows' Attonery
1957
- Zorro
- Sugarfoot as Hank Farragut
- Panic!
- The Iron Sheriff as Phil Quincy
1956
- Slightly Scarlet as Frank Jansen
- On Trial as Phillip Brady
- Frontier Gambler as Roger Chadwick
- Ghost Town as Anse Conroy
1955
- The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues as Dr. Ted Stevens, alias Ted Baxter
- Track the Man Down as John Ford
- Secret Venture as Ted O'Hara
1954
- Playgirl as Ted Andrews
1952
- The Ford Television Theatre as Frank Carson
- My Little Margie
1951
- Boston Blackie as Boston Blackie
- Payment on Demand as Robert Townsend
1950
- The Bigelow Theatre
- Federal Agent at Large as Mark Reed, aka Nick Ravel
- Western Pacific Agent as Rod Kendall
- Trial Without Jury as Jed Kilgore
1949
- The Sickle or the Cross as Rev. John Burnside
1948
- Half Past Midnight as Wade Hamilton
1947
- The Crimson Key as Lawrence 'Larry' Morgan
- Second Chance as Kendal Wolf
1946
- Young Widow as Peter Waring
- Smooth as Silk as Mark Fenton (Defense Attorney)
- Dangerous Millions as Jack Clark
- Deadline for Murder as Steve Millard
- Tangier as Ramon
1945
- The Daltons Ride Again as Bob Dalton
1944
- Alaska as Gary Corbett
- Roger Touhy, Gangster as Steve Warren
1943
- Bomber's Moon as Capt. Paul von Block
1942
- Mississippi Gambler as John J. 'Johnny' Forbes
- Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die as Doc Holliday
- Half Way to Shanghai as Frederick Barton, [Screen Credit / Ads Name: Alexander Barton ]
- Gang Busters as Det. Lt. Bannister
- Frisco Lil
- Army Surgeon as Lt. Philip Harvey
1941
- Washington Melodrama as Hal Thorne
- Repent at Leisure as Richard Hughes
1940
- I Take This Woman as Phil Mayberry
- Two Girls on Broadway as 'Chat' Chatsworth
- Men Against the Sky as Martin Ames
- I'm Still Alive as Steve Bennett
- The Girl from Avenue A as MacMillan Forrester
- Girl in 313 as Gregg Dunn
1939
- Five Came Back as Joe
- The Gracie Allen Murder Case as Bill Brown
- Pirates of the Skies
- Four Girls in White as Robert 'Bob' Maitland
- Sued for Libel as Steve Lonegan
- Escape to Paradise as Richard Fleming
- Three Sons as Gene Pardway
1938
- The Jury's Secret as Walter Russell
- The Last Express as Duncan MacLain, Private Detective
1937
- When Love Is Young as Andy Russell
- Love in a Bungalow as Jeff Langan
- The Lady Fights Back as Owen Merrill
- A Girl with Ideas as Frank Barnes
- Wings Over Honolulu as Greg Chandler
- Prescription for Romance as Steve Macy
1936
- My Marriage as John DeWitt Tyler III
- The Accusing Finger as Jerry Welch
- Ramona as Felipe Moreno
- The Sky Parade as Tommy Wade
- Florida Special as Wally Nelson
1935
- College Scandal as Seth Dunlap
- The County Chairman as Ben Harvey
- Smart Girl as Nick Graham
- Without Regret as Steve Paradin
- Two-Fisted as Clint Blackburn
1934
- The Scarlet Empress
- Death Takes a Holiday as Corrado
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch as Bob Redding
- David Harum as John
- Double Door as Rip Van Brett
- Many Happy Returns as Movie Actor (uncredited)
- Limehouse Blues as Eric Benton
1933
- I'm No Angel as Kirk Lawrence
- The Story of Temple Drake as First Jellybean (uncredited)
- A Lady's Profession as Dick Garfield
- Sunset Pass as Clink Peeples
- White Woman as David von Elst
- Cradle Song as Antonio
- The Mysterious Rider as Wade Benton
1932
- If I Had a Million as Bank Teller (uncredited)
- Blonde Venus as Hiker (uncredited)
- One Hour with You as Party Guest Greeted by Colette (uncredited)
- Merrily We Go to Hell as Greg Boleslavsky
- Devil and the Deep as A Friend at Party (uncredited)
- Forgotten Commandments as Gregor
- The Man from Yesterday as Military Policeman
- The Night of June 13 as Reporter (uncredited)
- Dancers in the Dark as Saxophonist
- Under-Cover Man as Russ
1931
- The Road to Reno as Jackie's Admirer
- Born to Love as Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)
- Ladies' Man as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- The False Madonna as Footman