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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Desmond Taylor has received more than 1,112,379 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. William Desmond Taylor is the 1,181st most popular film director (down from 1,165th in 2019), the 250th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 255th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Irish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, William Desmond Taylor ranks 1,181 out of 1,581. Before him are Bahman Ghobadi, Marco Tullio Giordana, Bruno Barreto, Cédric Klapisch, Robert Lepage, and Howard Deutch. After him are Anthony Harvey, Charles Jarrott, Colin Higgins, Usmar Ismail, Tommy Lee Wallace, and Frank Tashlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, William Desmond Taylor ranks 153. Before him are Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, Wilfred Baddeley, Richard Röstel, Francesca Bonnemaison i Farriols, José María Orellana, and Octav Băncilă. After him are Leonid Sobinov, Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Ivan Fomin, Julio Acosta García, Feliciano Viera, and Abdullah Yusuf Ali. Among people deceased in 1922, William Desmond Taylor ranks 108. Before him are Serapio Calderón, Gaston Bonnier, John Moresby, Josef Václav Myslbek, Anna Missuna, and August Palm. After him are Jørgen Løvland, A. V. Dicey, Gösta Runö, John Munro Longyear, Cathal Brugha, and Pál Simon.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Desmond Taylor ranks 250 out of 501. Before him are Victor Herbert (1859), James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (1665), Stuart Townsend (1972), Sara Allgood (1879), John O'Shea (1981), and Owen Moore (1886). After him are Liam Cosgrave (1920), Tim Ahearne (1885), Billy Whelan (1935), Diarmait Mac Murchada (1110), Stephen Roche (1959), and Patrick O'Connell (1887).

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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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Filmography

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