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
- The Mighty Gorga as Tonga Jack Adams
- Satan's Sadists as Lew
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
- The Crawling Hand as Dr. Max Weitzberg
- Harbor Lights as Dan Crown
1962
- The Firebrand as Maj. Tim Bancroft
- The Broken Land as Marshal Jim Cogan
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
- Peter Gunn
- Bat Masterson as John Martin / Gabilan
- 77 Sunset Strip
- 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
- On Trial as Phillip Brady
- Slightly Scarlet as Frank Jansen
- Ghost Town as Anse Conroy
- Frontier Gambler as Roger Chadwick
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
- Trial Without Jury as Jed Kilgore
- Federal Agent at Large as Mark Reed, aka Nick Ravel
- Western Pacific Agent as Rod Kendall
1949
- The Sickle or the Cross as Rev. John Burnside
1948
- Half Past Midnight as Wade Hamilton
1947
- Second Chance as Kendal Wolf
- The Crimson Key as Lawrence 'Larry' Morgan
1946
- Smooth as Silk as Mark Fenton (Defense Attorney)
- Dangerous Millions as Jack Clark
- Tangier as Ramon
- Young Widow as Peter Waring
- Deadline for Murder as Steve Millard
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
- Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die as Doc Holliday
- Half Way to Shanghai as Frederick Barton, [Screen Credit / Ads Name: Alexander Barton ]
- Army Surgeon as Lt. Philip Harvey
- Gang Busters as Det. Lt. Bannister
- Frisco Lil
- Mississippi Gambler as John J. 'Johnny' Forbes
1941
- Washington Melodrama as Hal Thorne
- Repent at Leisure as Richard Hughes
1940
- I Take This Woman as Phil Mayberry
- Girl in 313 as Gregg Dunn
- Two Girls on Broadway as 'Chat' Chatsworth
- The Girl from Avenue A as MacMillan Forrester
- I'm Still Alive as Steve Bennett
- Men Against the Sky as Martin Ames
1939
- The Gracie Allen Murder Case as Bill Brown
- Five Came Back as Joe
- Four Girls in White as Robert 'Bob' Maitland
- Sued for Libel as Steve Lonegan
- Pirates of the Skies
- Three Sons as Gene Pardway
- Escape to Paradise as Richard Fleming
1938
- The Jury's Secret as Walter Russell
- The Last Express as Duncan MacLain, Private Detective
1937
- Wings Over Honolulu as Greg Chandler
- The Lady Fights Back as Owen Merrill
- Prescription for Romance as Steve Macy
- A Girl with Ideas as Frank Barnes
- Love in a Bungalow as Jeff Langan
- When Love Is Young as Andy Russell
1936
- Florida Special as Wally Nelson
- The Accusing Finger as Jerry Welch
- Ramona as Felipe Moreno
- My Marriage as John DeWitt Tyler III
- The Sky Parade as Tommy Wade
1935
- Smart Girl as Nick Graham
- The County Chairman as Ben Harvey
- Two-Fisted as Clint Blackburn
- College Scandal as Seth Dunlap
- Without Regret as Steve Paradin
1934
- The Scarlet Empress
- David Harum as John
- Death Takes a Holiday as Corrado
- Double Door as Rip Van Brett
- Limehouse Blues as Eric Benton
- Many Happy Returns as Movie Actor (uncredited)
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch as Bob Redding
1933
- I'm No Angel as Kirk Lawrence
- The Story of Temple Drake as First Jellybean (uncredited)
- White Woman as David von Elst
- Cradle Song as Antonio
- Sunset Pass as Clink Peeples
- The Mysterious Rider as Wade Benton
- A Lady's Profession as Dick Garfield
1932
- Blonde Venus as Hiker (uncredited)
- One Hour with You as Party Guest Greeted by Colette (uncredited)
- Merrily We Go to Hell as Greg Boleslavsky
- If I Had a Million as Bank Teller (uncredited)
- Devil and the Deep as A Friend at Party (uncredited)
- Dancers in the Dark as Saxophonist
- The Man from Yesterday as Military Policeman
- The Night of June 13 as Reporter (uncredited)
- Under-Cover Man as Russ
- Forgotten Commandments as Gregor
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