FILM DIRECTOR

William Desmond Taylor

1872 - 1922

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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 between 1913 and 1915. Taylor's murder on 1 February 1922, along with other Hollywood scandals such as the Roscoe Arbuckle trial, led to a frenzy of sensationalist and often fabricated newspaper reports. The murder remains an official cold case. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Desmond Taylor is the 1,421st most popular film director (down from 1,339th in 2019), the 306th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 277th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Irish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, William Desmond Taylor ranks 1,421 out of 2,041. Before him are Elmer Clifton, Vasily Goncharov, Robert Lepage, Oleg Sentsov, François Dupeyron, and Lucrecia Martel. After him are Robert Burks, Aleksandr Rogozhkin, Francesca Comencini, Len Wiseman, Albert Serra, and Rian Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, William Desmond Taylor ranks 188. Before him are Ivan Fomin, Octav Băncilă, Bernard Knubel, Eugenie Schwarzwald, Sidney Olcott, and Ľudmila Podjavorinská. After him are Harald Natvig, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Anna Held, James Young, Mary Engle Pennington, and Harlan F. Stone. Among people deceased in 1922, William Desmond Taylor ranks 130. Before him are Gösta Runö, Pál Simon, Anna Missuna, Alfred Capus, John Butler Yeats, and Liberato Marcial Rojas. After him are Henry Lawson, Charles Thias, Lyman Abbott, Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, Arthur Wesley Dow, and John Wanamaker.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Desmond Taylor ranks 306 out of 549. Before him are Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906), Frank O'Farrell (1927), Peter Sutherland (1946), Anne Buttimer (1938), Robert McClure (1807), and Harry Clarke (1889). After him are Robert O'Hara Burke (1821), William Carr (1876), Charlie Murphy (1988), Ronan Keating (1977), Frances Power Cobbe (1822), and William Quan Judge (1851).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ireland

Among film directors born in Ireland, William Desmond Taylor ranks 6. Before him are Neil Jordan (1950), Jim Sheridan (1949), Herbert Brenon (1880), Steve Barron (1956), and Rex Ingram (1892). After him are Lenny Abrahamson (1966), and John Moore (1970).

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