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Don Taylor

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Don Taylor

Dec 13, 1920 – Dec 29, 1998125 titles 73 movies · 52 TV
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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.

Also known as

Donald Richie Taylor

Born

Dec 13, 1920 – Dec 29, 1998

Freeport, Pennsylvania, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

45

Acting credits

86

Directing

6

Writing

2

Other crew

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Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

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