Most Recent Role: Gutherie Reinhart on Barnaby Jones
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Nashua, Iowa, U.S.A.
Birthday: 5-11-1906
Date of Death: 4-11-1987
Cause of Death: Heart problems
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Nashua, Iowa, U.S.A.
Birthday: 5-11-1906
Date of Death: 4-11-1987
Cause of Death: Heart problems
His movie debut was in the film "The Magnificent Lie" (1931) with Ralph Bellamy and Charles Boyer, but Kent Taylor was not credited in this movie.
In 1942 he starred as Doc Holiday in "Tombstone, the town too tough to die" along with Richar Dix who played the Wyatt Earp part. His portrayal of Holiday was remarkable.
The Rough Riders was his other important TV show, it was about...
Most Recent Appearance
Portrait of Evil
Thursday 18 December 1975 on CBS
Abby Reinhart and her lover, restorer Tony Barrer, plan to cheat her older, wealthy husband Gutherie with an art forgery. When Gutherie overhears the plot, he dies from a heart attack. Abby and Tony try to conceal the death until the paint of the fake is dried.
Kent Taylor was partly the inspiration for Superman`s secret identity name because Taylor was the brother in law of Jerry Siegel's wife. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were the creators of Superman, so they chose the name of Clark Kent for his super character. "Kent" was for Taylor and "Clark" for Clark Gable who was at his best in those years.
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Other Appearances
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Boston Blackie
Boston Blackie |
The Rough Riders
Captain Jim Flagg, Union Army |
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77 Sunset Strip
The Celluloid Cowboy Henry Thaxton |
Barnaby Jones
Portrait of Evil Gutherie Reinhart |
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Bat Masterson
Three Bullets for Bat John Martin |
Bronco
The Last Resort Three-Finger Jack |
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Bronco
Stage to the Sky Billy Rawlins |
Colt .45
Last Chance Wallace Grant |
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The Vise
Dead Man's Evidence Story |
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Boston Blackie
Boston Blackie, played by Kent Tayor on television, was the hero of more than a dozen 1940's B movies, and the lead protagonist in this memorable TV show that aired in syndication from 1951 until... more The Rough Riders
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Boston Blackie, played by Kent Tayor on television, was the hero of more than a dozen 1940's B movies, and the lead protagonist in this memorable TV show that aired in syndication from 1951 until... more The Rough Riders
none more
