William Desmond Taylor Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, 26 April

1872 â€" 1 February 1922) was an Anglo-Irish-American film director

and actor. A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion picture

colony of the 1910s and early 1920s, Taylor directed fifty-nine silent

films between 1914 and 1922 and acted in twenty-seven between 1913 and

1915.Taylor's murder on 1 February 1922, along with other Hollywood

scandals such as the Roscoe Arbuckle trial, led to a frenzy of

sensationalist and often fabricated newspaper reports. The murder

remains an official cold case.William Cunningham Deane-Tanner was born

into the Anglo-Irish gentry on 26 April 1872, at Evington House,

County Carlow, Ireland, one of five children of a retired British Army

officer, Major Kearns Deane-Tanner of the Carlow Rifles, and his wife,

Jane O'Brien. Taylor's siblings were Denis Gage Deane-Tanner, Ellen

"Nell" Deane-Tanner Faudel-Phillips, Lizzie "Daisy" Deane-Tanner, and

Oswald Kearns Deane-Tanner. One of his uncles was Charles Kearns Deane

Tanner, the member of parliament for Mid Cork.

William Desmond Taylor Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

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