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

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

Kent Taylor (born Louis William Weiss; May 11, 1907 â€" April 11,

1987) was an American actor of film and television. Taylor appeared in

more than 110 films, the bulk of them B-movies in the 1930s and 1940s,

although he also had roles in more prestigious studio releases,

including Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), I'm No Angel (1933), Cradle

Song (1933), Death Takes a Holiday (1934), Payment on Demand (1951),

and Track the Man Down (1955). He had the lead role in Half Past

Midnight in 1948, among a few others.Kent Taylor was born Louis

William Weisson May 11, 1907 to a Jewish family in Nashua, Iowa,

Taylor moved with his family to Waterloo, Iowa, when he was 7. He

worked at a variety of jobs after high school, and for two years he

studied engineering at the Darrah Institute of Technology in Chicago.

He and his family moved to California in 1931.With no prior

professional acting experience, Kent began working as a film extra in

1931 on the advice of a friend who said he had the right looks for "a

good screen type." Prior to background work, he was co-operator of an

awning service shop with his father. After a few very minor extra

roles in films such as Kick In (1931), he was called in "to try out a

new camera idea;" a silent sequence was shot using Taylor and Claire

Dodd, who was by then an established player at Paramount. The test led

to Taylor being offered a contract with Paramount, which he signed on

July 11, 1931.In 1951-1952, with his movie career on the decline and

television production on the upswing, he played the title role in 58

episodes of the detective series Boston Blackie and the lead, as

Captain Jim Flagg, in ABC's The Rough Riders, an adventure series

about three soldiers, two Union and one Confederate, traveling

together through the American West after the Civil War. The Rough

Riders aired thirty-nine episodes from 1958 to 1959.
Kent Taylor Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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