William Desmond Taylor

William Desmond Taylor

Irish-American film director. His 1922 murder remains unsolved.

  • Title: William Desmond Taylor
  • Popularity: 1.478
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1872-04-26
  • Place of Birth: Carlow, Ireland
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  • Also Known As: Frank Marlo, William Cunningham Deane-Tanner
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William Desmond Taylor Movies

  • 1914
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    The Last Chapter

    The Last Chapter

    1 1914 HD

    Gordon, a young war correspondent, after being wounded in the jungles of Africa, is picked up and taken back to England by James Egerton, a wealthy...

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  • 1913
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    Granddad

    Granddad

    5.5 1913 HD

    Mildred is staying with her grandfather, Civil War veteran Jabez Burr, when she receives a letter from her father. Her father has re-married, and...

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    The Kiss

    The Kiss

    4.5 1914 HD

    Directed by Ulysses Davis, the screenplay was based on a story by Marc Edmund Jones. Long thought to have been a lost film, a copy was found and put...

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  • 1987
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    Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

    Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

    1 1987 HD

    Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood.

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  • 1914
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    A Little Madonna

    A Little Madonna

    1 1914 HD

    Terrorized by Guido, her drunken and brutal father, Marie receives assurance from her dying mother that the Madonna will always protect her. The...

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  • 1913
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    The Quakeress

    The Quakeress

    1 1913 HD

    The setting is an early American village, where a young Quaker woman, Priscilla, is in love with the schoolmaster, John Hart. The local minister,...

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    Captain Alvarez

    Captain Alvarez

    1 1914 HD

    A melodrama about an American who becomes a revolutionary leader battling evil government spies in Argentina.

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    Anne of the Golden Heart

    Anne of the Golden Heart

    1 1914 HD

    Upon the death of his wife, George Blake, an attorney, leaves the east. He first places his pretty young daughter, Lucy, in a convent. After...

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  • 1917
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    The World Apart

    The World Apart

    1 1917 HD

    Bob Fulton is the superintendent of a mine in the West. He wins the enmity of dancehall owner Jack King when he saves one of the girls, Rose De...

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  • 1916
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    Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett

    3 1916 HD

    The story of the famous Tennessee frontiersman, soldier, scout, and Congressman who fought and died at the Alamo.

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    Redeeming Love

    Redeeming Love

    1 1916 HD

    Naomi Sterling and John Bancroft are lovers. The girl loves frivolous things and Bancroft, a divinity student, finally estranges himself from her by...

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  • 1920
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    The Soul of Youth

    The Soul of Youth

    5.4 1920 HD

    Ed Simpson has been raised in an orphanage where he has caused much trouble. He can't stand living there anymore and runs away. On the streets, he...

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  • 1919
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    Anne of Green Gables

    Anne of Green Gables

    6 1919 HD

    Anne Shirley, an orphan, is taken into the lives of a generous farmer and his sister. She grows from an adventuresome young lass into a charming and...

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  • 1918
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    Johanna Enlists

    Johanna Enlists

    5.8 1918 HD

    A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

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  • 1920
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    Nurse Marjorie

    Nurse Marjorie

    5.5 1920 HD

    Lady Marjorie Donegal becomes a nurse in hospital, much to the dismay of her aristocratic family. She falls in love with one of her patients, a...

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  • 1915
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    The Diamond from the Sky

    The Diamond from the Sky

    1 1915 HD

    This serial told the story of the diamond heir loom of the Stanley family.

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  • 1921
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    Sacred and Profane Love

    Sacred and Profane Love

    1 1921 HD

    Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz,...

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  • 1920
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    Huckleberry Finn

    Huckleberry Finn

    5.8 1920 HD

    Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...

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  • 1921
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    Morals

    Morals

    1 1921 HD

    Reared in a Turkish harem and threatened with marriage to a man she does not love, Carlotta escapes to London with an English adventurer. When he is...

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  • 1917
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    Big Timber

    Big Timber

    1 1917 HD

    Stella Benton, a young society girl who has lost her beautiful voice through the death of her father, goes to live with her brother Charles, in the...

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  • 1919
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    Captain Kidd, Jr.

    Captain Kidd, Jr.

    1 1919 HD

    An old man wills a map to his grandson, with instructions showing a buried treasure, but it is accidentally sold to a book store. The owner and her...

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  • 1918
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    How Could You, Jean?

    How Could You, Jean?

    1 1918 HD

    A lost Film. Mary Pickford plays a socialite who, having lost her fortune, takes a job as a Swedish cook. She falls in love with a chauffeur who, lo...

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  • 1922
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    The Green Temptation

    The Green Temptation

    1 1922 HD

    Genelle and Gaspard operate an itinerant Parisian theatre in which the greatest profits are realized by picking the pockets of the audience and...

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  • 1918
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    The Spirit of '17

    The Spirit of '17

    1 1918 HD

    Davy Glidden is the son of the adjutant general in charge of an old soldier's home in a small town near the Top Copper mine. Davy idolizes Capt....

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  • 1920
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    The Soul of Youth

    The Soul of Youth

    5.4 1920 HD

    Ed Simpson has been raised in an orphanage where he has caused much trouble. He can't stand living there anymore and runs away. On the streets, he...

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  • 1916
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    Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett

    3 1916 HD

    The story of the famous Tennessee frontiersman, soldier, scout, and Congressman who fought and died at the Alamo.

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  • 1918
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    Mile-a-Minute Kendall

    Mile-a-Minute Kendall

    1 1918 HD

    Young Kendall struggles for acceptance in the eyes of his wealthy father, who sees him only as a layabout.

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  • 1918
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    Huck and Tom

    Huck and Tom

    1 1918 HD

    The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.

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  • 1916
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    The Parson of Panamint

    The Parson of Panamint

    1 1916 HD

    A tough preacher comes to the rip-roaring gold town of Panamint in hopes of reforming it. But disaster awaits.

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  • 1914
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    The Last Chapter

    The Last Chapter

    1 1914 HD

    Gordon, a young war correspondent, after being wounded in the jungles of Africa, is picked up and taken back to England by James Egerton, a wealthy...

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  • 1916
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    The House of Lies

    The House of Lies

    1 1916 HD

    When her stepmother attempts to marry her off for the family's financial gain, sensitive and beautiful Edna takes drastic measures, disfiguring...

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    Ben Blair

    Ben Blair

    1 1916 HD

    After the death of his mother, young Ben Blair finds a safe home on John Rankin’s ranch. But when Rankin is murdered, the older Ben sets out to...

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  • 1917
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    Tom Sawyer

    Tom Sawyer

    5 1917 HD

    Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks...

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  • 1916
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    He Fell in Love with His Wife

    He Fell in Love with His Wife

    1 1916 HD

    A widowed farmer, failing in his efforts to find a woman capable of running his household, decides to marry a young woman he believes can fill the...

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  • 1921
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    Beyond

    Beyond

    1 1921 HD

    Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death to reappear in spirit form to remind Avis of her...

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    The Heart of Paula

    The Heart of Paula

    1 1916 HD

    When mining engineer Stephen Pachmann (Jack Livingstone) is sent to Mexico to investigate a mine, his wife Paula (Velma Lefler) is so miserable that...

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  • 1918
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    Up The Road With Sallie

    Up The Road With Sallie

    1 1918 HD

    Sallie Waters inherits $5,000 along with other legatees unknown to her. Whichever of the heirs uses his initial bequest to the best advantage is to...

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  • 1920
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    The Furnace

    The Furnace

    1 1920 HD

    Folly Vallance marries millionaire Anthony Bond for his money, but he insists on a marriage in name only. Entering the social scene she befriends...

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  • 1921
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    The Witching Hour

    The Witching Hour

    1 1921 HD

    Clay Whipple is convicted of murdering the governor following an incident involving a cat's eye pin. Whipple is sentenced to death, but a mentalist...

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  • 1916
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    Her Father's Son

    Her Father's Son

    1 1916 HD

    A Union officer exposes the several deceptions his sweetheart has been engaging in. These include , spying for the Confederacy, and posing as a boy...

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  • 1920
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    Huckleberry Finn

    Huckleberry Finn

    5.8 1920 HD

    Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...

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  • 1920
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    Judy of Rogues' Harbor

    Judy of Rogues' Harbor

    1 1920 HD

    Judy, an orphaned waif, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protector of little Denny, Ketchel's grandson, Judy is...

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  • 1920
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    Jenny Be Good

    Jenny Be Good

    1 1920 HD

    When a young woman's great romance is interrupted by the influence of her lover's parents, she turns to her art as a violinist to console herself. As...

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  • 1922
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    The Top of New York

    The Top of New York

    1 1922 HD

    Hilda lives in a tenement apartment with her aunt, Mrs. Brady, and her crippled younger brother Micky, and works in a department store where her boss...

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  • 2016
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    Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime

    Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime

    8 2016 HD

    Hosts Ryan & Shane discuss mysteries surrounding notorious unsolved crimes.

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