Kent Taylor
Actor
Biography
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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.
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Filmography
The Scarlet Empress
1934
One Hour with You
as Party Guest Greeted by Colette (uncredited) 1932
I'm No Angel
as Kirk Lawrence 1933
Death Takes a Holiday
as Corrado 1934
If I Had a Million
as Bank Teller (uncredited) 1932
Merrily We Go to Hell
as Greg Boleslavsky 1932
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
as Dr. Ted Stevens, alias Ted Baxter 1955
The Story of Temple Drake
as First Jellybean (uncredited) 1933
Five Came Back
as Joe 1939
Satan's Sadists
as Lew 1969
Slightly Scarlet
as Frank Jansen 1956
The Crawling Hand
as Dr. Max Weitzberg 1963
Brain of Blood
as Dr. Trenton 1971
Brides of Blood
as Dr. Paul Henderson 1968
Girls for Rent
as Moreno 1974
Payment on Demand
as Robert Townsend 1951