Forrest Taylor

Forrest Taylor

actor

Forrest Taylor was born on Dec 29, 1883 in USA. Forrest Taylor's big-screen debut came with The Death Kiss directed by Edwin L. Marin in 1932, strarring Actor (uncredited). Forrest Taylor is known for Man Without a Gun directed by Charles F. Haas, Rex Reason stars as Adam MacLean and Mort Mills as Marshal Frank Tallman. The upcoming new movie Forrest Taylor plays is The FBI Story which will be released on Oct 01, 1959.

Minor American character actor Forrest Taylor was a veteran of the stage by the time he started appearing as a silent lead in both short and feature-length films. He went on to appear in hundreds of secondary "B" movies, although his name does not appear in a large percentage of them. Taylor was born Edwin Forrest Taylor in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1883. Little is known about his early days on stage but he assayed prime roles in such films as In the Sunset Country (1915), April (1916), True Nobility (1916) and The Abandonment (1916) before World War I service intervened. With his leading-man career fatally interrupted, he would not return to films until a decade later in 1926. Playing a few strong supports, he regressed quickly to atmospheric bits primarily in westerns and cliffhangers. With a no-nonsense attitude and imposingly thick mustache, his attorneys, judges, scientists, executives and professors were for the most part scarcely acknowledged, so when he did receive a bit more screen time than usual he pounced on the opportunity, such as he got in John Wayne's programmer Les cavaliers du destin (1933) where he played a sagebrush villain; the serial Shadow of Chinatown (1936) as a Chief of Police; and The Oregon Trail (1939) as a nemesis to hero Johnny Mack Brown. Taylor also managed some deliciously hammy roles in a few popular serials including L'archer vert (1940), The Spider Returns (1941) and Griffes d'acier (1941). On-camera for nearly five decades, he extended himself into TV programming in the 1950s, taking part in various TV westerns including episodes of Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951), Annie Oakley (1954), The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955), Maverick (1957) and Mon amie Flicka (1955), not to mention both Gene Autry's and Roy Rogers' weekly shows. He was an occasional player on the series The Cisco Kid (1950) from 1950 on, and from 1952-1954 had one of his more visible roles as Grandpa Fisher on the religious TV series The Fisher Family (1952). Broaching the age of 80, Taylor finally retired in 1962 after filming an episode of Bonanza (1959) and died three years later of natural causes in Garden Grove, California.

  • Birthday

    Dec 29, 1883

  • Place of Birth

    Ellsworth, Illinois, USA

Known For

Man Without a Gun
TV
Man Without a Gun

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Man of a Thousand Faces
Movie
Man of a Thousand Faces

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Calamity Jane
Movie
Calamity Jane

19537.2

Wells Fargo Gunmaster
Movie
Wells Fargo Gunmaster

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Prairie Roundup
Movie
Prairie Roundup

19517.3

The Roy Rogers Show
TV
The Roy Rogers Show

19517.2

Winchester '73
Movie
Winchester '73

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The Cisco Kid
TV
The Cisco Kid

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Stallion Canyon
Movie
Stallion Canyon

19498.2

Navajo Trail Raiders
Movie
Navajo Trail Raiders

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