William Desmond Taylor
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Birth Name: William Cunningham Deane-Tanner
Born: 26 April 1872 Died: 1 February 1922
Country of origin: Ireland
Height: 6' 0"
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Claire Windsor
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The biggest scandals of Hollywood
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Suspicious celebrity deaths
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Silent Film Directors
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Taylor was an actor, successful US film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s. His murder on February 1, 1922, along with other Hollywood scandals such as the Roscoe Arbuckle trial, led to a frenzy of sensationalistic and often fabricated newspaper reports. Taylor's murder remains officially unsolved.
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1. Johanna Enlists (1918)
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2. Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919)
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3. The Varmint (1917)
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4. Judy of Rogue's Harbor (1920)
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5. Huckleberry Finn (1920)
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