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Kent Taylor

Kent Taylor

Actor · 1907 – 1987 · Nashua, Iowa, USA

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.

Movies24

  • Movie6.3

    Slightly Scarlet

    1956 · 36 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Brides of Blood

    1968 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Blonde Venus

    1932 · 150 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Scarlet Empress

    1934 · 144 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Devil and the Deep

    1932 · 16 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Law of the Lawless

    1964 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.3

    I'm No Angel

    1933 · 66 votes

  • Movie6.5

    If I Had a Million

    1932 · 51 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Merrily We Go to Hell

    1932 · 48 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Five Came Back

    1939 · 42 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Death Takes a Holiday

    1934 · 50 votes

  • Movie6.1
  • Movie3.2

    Blood of Ghastly Horror

    1967 · 21 votes

  • Movie5.0

    The Jury's Secret

    1938 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Mississippi Gambler

    1942 · 2 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Two Girls on Broadway

    1940 · 6 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Alaska

    1944 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Phantom of Hollywood

    1974 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.7

    My Marriage

    1936 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie4.2

    Hell's Bloody Devils

    1970 · 15 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Roger Touhy, Gangster

    1944 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Harbor Lights

    1963 · 2 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Young Widow

    1946 · 10 votes

Series19

  • TV7.1

    The Rifleman

    1958 · 54 votes

  • TV5.6

    Hawaiian Eye

    1959 · 10 votes

  • TV7.8
  • TV6.8

    Land of the Giants

    1968 · 50 votes

  • TV6.4

    Bat Masterson

    1958 · 16 votes

  • TV6.6

    Peter Gunn

    1958 · 26 votes

  • TV7.6

    Zorro

    1957 · 212 votes

  • TV5.1

    Sugarfoot

    1957 · 8 votes

  • TV7.2

    77 Sunset Strip

    1958 · 26 votes

  • TV6.7

    Laramie

    1959 · 18 votes

  • TV6.0

    Bronco

    1958 · 8 votes

  • TV6.5

    Riverboat

    1959 · 6 votes

  • TV6.7

    Mr. Lucky

    1959 · 6 votes

  • TV6.3

    Tightrope

    1959 · 3 votes

  • TV8.0

    Panic!

    1957 · 1 votes

  • TV5.0

    My Little Margie

    1952 · 2 votes

  • TV

    Rango

    1967

  • TV6.5

    The Rough Riders

    1958 · 4 votes

  • TV6.7

    The Bigelow Theatre

    1950 · 3 votes