Kent Taylor

Kent Taylor

Infobox actor
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name = Kent Taylor
birthname = Louis William Weiss




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birthdate = birth date|1906|5|11
location = Nashua, Iowa, USA
deathdate = death date and age|1987|4|11|1906|5|11
deathplace = Woodland Hills, California, USA

Kent Taylor (May 11, 1906April 11, 1987) was an American actor. Born Louis William Weiss in Nashua, Iowa, 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 "I'm No Angel", "Death Takes a Holiday", "Payment on Demand", and "Track the Man Down".

In the 1950s, 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 in 39 episodes of "The Rough Riders". Other small screen credits include "My Little Margie", "Tales of Wells Fargo", "Zorro", "Bat Masterson", "Peter Gunn", and "Hawaiian Eye". The last years of his career were spent in slasher and horror films with titles like "Satan's Sadists", "Blood of Ghastly Horror", "I Spit on Your Corpse", and "Hell's Bloody Devils".

Taylor is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

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Along with Clark Gable, Kent Taylor served as the inspiration behind the name of Superman's alter-ego - Clark Kent. [cite news | first=John | last=Gross | title=Books of the Times | date=December 15, 1987 | publisher=New York Times | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DC1F38F936A25751C1A961948260 |accessdate=2007-01-29 ]

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