Noah Taylor (Desperate Housewives)

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Noah Taylor
First appearance	Come In, Stranger (episode 1.05)
Last appearance	Remember (episode 2.23)
Cause/Reason	Murdered by Zach Young
Statistics
Gender	Male
Age	60s or 70s
Occupation	Supposed Mafia Godfather
Family	Mike Delfino (hitman) Zach Young (grandson)
Children	Dierdre Taylor Kendra Taylor
Portrayed by	Bob Gunton
Created by	Marc Cherry

Noah Taylor is the name of a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by actor Bob Gunton.

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The father of Deirdre and Kendra Taylor, and the grandfather of Zach. Noah first appeared in episode 5, Come in Stranger where Mike met him in Fairview Park to discuss his break-in at the Fromme residence. Noah came off as a bitter old man after being nasty to the local kids in front of Mike. He then reappears in episode 12, Every Day a Little Death when Mike visits his mansion and it is revealed that Noah hired Mike to find his daughter Deirdre, (who was Mike's ex-girlfriend, 1st love, and Dana/Zach's mother). Noah had felt that Mike abandoned his daughter by finding a nice wife.

However, it is believed that Noah was exaggerating, and that Mike married his first wife after Deirdre had ran away from home, and after Mike got out of prison. Noah arranged for Mike to murder Deirdre's killer and decided to put him back on his payroll. Noah had fired him because of his slow pace, which was a major flaw due to Noah's brain tumor. Noah made it clear that he had only one year left. Mike later returned with all of Noah's money. In episode 15 Impossible, Noah appears once more to discuss Martha Huber's murder and how her watch got into Mike's garage. Noah points out that whoever did it was the killer of Deirdre.

In episode 19, Live Alone and Like It Noah is seen in a cemetery where he tells Mike about Deirdre's death, and that she had been stuffed into a toy chest (the same chest Paul had in his pool and put into Rock Water Lake). Noah arranged for Sullivan to give Mike the case file on Deirdre's murder and bribed him to keep quiet to prevent Mike from being imprisoned, where Mike discovered that the Youngs had killed Deirdre. Noah appears for the last time in Sunday in the Park with George, where Noah attempts to break up Susan and Mike forever, by giving Susan false information about Mike's criminal records. Surprisingly enough, Kendra comes to the rescue and sets Susan straight.

Noah reappears on We're Gonna Be All Right where he is lying on a bed dying. It is then revealed that Felicia Tilman is his nurse. Noah's occupation is unknown to this day. He wants to meet his newly found grandson, Zach, but Mike and Paul don't want that. When he finds out the Youngs were Dierdre's murderer, he bullied Paul and Zach. Zach gives in and visits Noah, only so he could leave them alone. Rumors suggest that he is a mafia godfather, and that Mike was his number one man and the fiancé of his daughter, the truth about the Taylors is still a mystery.

He died when Zach Young turned off his life support, Zach now stands to inherit his entire estate.

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