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 1,190,425 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). William Desmond Taylor is the 1,339th most popular film director (down from 1,178th in 2019), the 277th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 249th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Irish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, William Desmond Taylor ranks 1,339 out of 2,041. Before him are Piotr Szulkin, Frank Pierson, Douglas Trumbull, Peter Medak, Kurt Neumann, and Bent Hamer. After him are D. A. Pennebaker, Walter Lassally, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Guillermo Navarro, Howard Deutch, and Michael Caton-Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, William Desmond Taylor ranks 175. Before him are Julio Acosta García, Leonid Sobinov, Wivi Lönn, Lucille La Verne, Bernard Knubel, and Octav Băncilă. After him are Dimitrios Drivas, Anna Held, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Joseph Barcroft, Rudolf Schlechter, and Sidney Olcott. Among people deceased in 1922, William Desmond Taylor ranks 123. Before him are John Moresby, A. V. Dicey, John Wanamaker, August Palm, Alfred Capus, and Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe. After him are Lyman Abbott, William Christie, Pál Simon, Henry Lawson, W. H. R. Rivers, and Liberato Marcial Rojas.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, William Desmond Taylor ranks 277 out of 549. Before him are Evanna Lynch (1991), James Cecil Parke (1881), Agnes Mary Clerke (1842), William Henry Harvey (1811), Brian Downey (1951), and Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet (1737). After him are John O'Shea (1981), George Salmon (1819), Caoimhín Kelleher (1998), Colum McCann (1965), John A. Costello (1891), and Margaret Mazzantini (1961).

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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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