Stanner E.V. Taylor

Stanner E.V. Taylor was born on Sep 28, 1877 in USA. Stanner E.V. Taylor's big-screen debut came with The Adventures of Dollie directed by D.W. Griffith in 1908.

Stanner Edward Varley Taylor (1874-1948) was a newspaper man who borrowed a typewriter at the New York Herald to write plays, while the rest of the city slept. His plays impressed the owner of the American Mutoscope & Biography Co. and in 1908 he was hired to write stories for the new moving pictures. The next two years Taylor wrote 85% of their pictures including, D.W. Griffith's first film The Adventures of Dollie (1908), the first movie filmed in Hollywood, In Old California (1910), the first interfaith romance A Child of the Ghetto (1910).