Director

Sam Taylor

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Directed movies: 19Directed series: 0All crew credits: 34

TMDB ID: 143561

IMDb ID: nm0853130

Known for: Directing

Born: August 13, 1895

Died: March 6, 1958

Age: 62

Place of birth: New York City, New York

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1917 - 1944

Years active: 28

Average TMDB rating: 6.58

Wikidata: Q719427

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Biography

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.

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