Kent Taylor

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Kent Taylor
Born Louis William Weiss
(1907-05-11)May 11, 1907
Nashua, Iowa, USA
Died April 11, 1987(1987-04-11) (aged 79)
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
California
Resting place
 Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles
Years active 1931–1974
Spouse(s) Augusta Kulek Taylor (married 1930-1987, his death, 3 children)

Kent Taylor (May 11, 1907 – April 11, 1987) was an American actor of film and television.[1]

Born Louis William Weiss in Nashua in northeastern 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), Cradle Song (1933), Death Takes a Holiday (1934), Payment on Demand (1951), and Track the Man Down (1955). He had the lead role in Half Past Midnight in 1948, among a few others.[1]

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, as Captain Jim Flagg, in ABC's The Rough Riders, an adventure series about three soldiers, two Union and one Confederate, traveling together through the American West after the Civil War. The Rough Riders aired thirty-nine episodes from 1958 to 1959.[1]

Other small screen credits include My Little Margie, Tales of Wells Fargo, Zorro, Riverboat, The Rifleman, Tombstone Territory, Sugarfoot, Bat Masterson, Laramie, Mr. Lucky, Tightrope, Peter Gunn, Hawaiian Eye, The Brothers Brannagan, The Ann Sothern Show, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.[1]

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.[1]

Along with Clark Gable, Kent Taylor served as the inspiration behind the name of Superman's alter-ego - Clark Kent.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Kent Taylor". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved March 5, 2013. 
  2. ↑ Gross, John (December 15, 1987). "Books of the Times". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-01-29. 

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