Wilton Taylor
Wilton Taylor (1869- January 24, 1925) was an American stage and silent screen actor. He usually played gruff men of authority like wardens, judges or the police commissioner in Tod Browning's Outside the Law (1920). Of some other surviving silent he can be seen in Houdini's Terror Island (1920). Prior to entering films he spent some years on the stage and appeared as a police inspector in the original 1912 Broadway production of Within the Law starring Jane Cowl. Taylor died in January of 1925.[1] His grave is unmarked at Grand View Memorial Park, Glendale Californina.[2]
Partial filmography
- The Gray Ghost (1917)
- Wild Women (1918)
- Love Insurance (1919)
- The Lottery Man (1919)
- Alias Jimmy Valentine (1920)
- Treasure Island (1920)
- Terror Island (1920)
- Outside the Law (1920)
- Traveling Salesman (1921)
- Gasoline Gus (1921)
- The Cave Girl (1921)
- The Lane That Had No Turning (1922)
- Human Hearts (1922)
References
- ↑ Silent Film Necrology 2nd edition p.515 c.2001 by Eugene Michael Vazzana ISBN 0-7864-1059-0 retrieved January 16, 2015
- ↑ Wilton Taylor; findagrave.com