Sam Taylor (director)
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| Born | Sam Taylor August 13, 1895 New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1916–1949 |
Sam Taylor (August 13, 1895 – March 6, 1958) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer, most active in the silent film era. Taylor is best known for his comedic directorial work with Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, and also later worked with Laurel and Hardy. He was born in New York City.
A notorious cinematic legend over the decades has suggested that Taylor's 1929 adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew had the screen credit "additional dialogue by Sam Taylor". However, no extant prints of the film contain this credit, and there is no documentary evidence that it ever existed.
Taylor directed eight feature films with Lloyd as star, with a number of them being co-directing with Fred C. Newmeyer. Taylor also directed Pickford in her first "talkie" feature with Coquette (1929), which garnered the latter an Academy Award.
Taylor died at the age of 62 in Santa Monica, California.
Partial filmography
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- Over the Garden Wall (1919)
- In Honor's Web (1919)
- Human Collateral (1920)
- Now or Never (1921)
- Never Weaken (1921)
- Princess Jones (1921)
- The Mohican's Daughter (1922)
- Dr. Jack (1922)
- Safety Last! (1923)
- Why Worry? (1923)
- Girl Shy (1924)
- Hot Water (1924)
- The Freshman (1925)
- For Heaven's Sake (1926)
- Exit Smiling (1927)
- My Best Girl (1927)
- Tempest (1928)
- The Woman Disputed (1928)
- Lady of the Pavements (1929) (screenplay)
- The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
- Coquette (1929)
- Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
- Skyline (1931)
- Ambassador Bill (1931)
- Kiki (1931)
- Devil's Lottery (1932)
- Out All Night (1933)
- The Cat's-Paw (1934)
- Vagabond Lady (1935)
- Nothing but Trouble (1944)
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
Works written by or about Sam Taylor (director) at Wikisource- Sam Taylor at the Internet Movie Database
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