Don Taylor
Donald Richie Taylor (December 13, 1920 – December 29, 1998) was an American actor and film director. He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17. He later turned to directing films such as Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Tom Sawyer (1973), Echoes of a Summer (1976), and Damien: Omen II (1978).
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 5.409 |
Birthday | 1920-12-13 |
Place of Birth | Freeport, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | Donald Richie Taylor, |
1953
Stalag 17
7.7/592
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seem...
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Stalag 17
1948
The Naked City
7.179/252
The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets a...
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The Naked City
1950
Father of the Bride
7/200
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself,...
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Father of the Bride
1951
Father's Little Dividend
6.4/63
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be...
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Father's Little Dividend
1949
Battleground
6.6/86
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Ho...
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Battleground
1955
I'll Cry Tomorrow
6.3/24
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her...
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I'll Cry Tomorrow
1951
Flying Leathernecks
5.9/60
Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds...
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Flying Leathernecks
1952
Japanese War Bride
5.5/2
A Korean war vet and his bride face subtle and sometimes extreme racism when they return to his home in rural California.
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Japanese War Bride
1948
For the Love of Mary
5.8/6
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
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For the Love of Mary
1954
The Men of Sherwood Forest
6.7/7
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from ca...
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The Men of Sherwood Forest
1953
The Girls of Pleasure Island
5/5
In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his thr...
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The Girls of Pleasure Island
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
6/2
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1953
Destination Gobi
5.7/17
A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship...
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Destination Gobi
1984
The Manhunt
4.9/6
A young man buys two horses at an Arizona race track but fails to get a receipt. Later, when riding across the land of a rancher named Robeson, he's a...
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The Manhunt
1954
Johnny Dark
5.2/4
A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laur...
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Johnny Dark
1951
Submarine Command
5.6/16
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequ...
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Submarine Command
1950
Ambush
5.1/14
A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.
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Ambush
2010
Holy Wars
7.5/2
Take one Muslim advocate for global jihad and put him in a room with one conservative Christian on a mission to evangelize the world's Muslims. Which...
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Holy Wars
1956
The Bold and the Brave
5.6/5
An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.
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The Bold and the Brave
1944
Winged Victory
5.5/2
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with...
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Winged Victory
1956
Ride The High Iron
0/0
A recent war veteran accepts a job in public relations, but he becomes increasingly unhappy with his career choice. Originally filmed for TV but relea...
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Ride The High Iron
1957
Love Slaves of the Amazons
4/9
A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves."
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Love Slaves of the Amazons
1951
Target Unknown
0/0
World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners by the German army.
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Target Unknown
1947
Song of the Thin Man
6.8/85
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
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Song of the Thin Man
1945
The Last Bomb
5.8/4
Documentary of the planning and delivery of the last great bomber attack on the city of Tokyo by the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II.
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The Last Bomb
1961
The Savage Guns
3.3/3
This Western is set in the Mexican valley of Sonora not that far south of the state of Arizona. It's just after the American Civil War, and a former C...
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The Savage Guns
1994
That's Entertainment! III
6.9/34
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to G...
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That's Entertainment! III
1945
Time to Kill
0/0
A group of sailors kid their shipmate Frank about his constant reading, when they would all rather play cards. But each of them has a dream for the fu...
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Time to Kill
1951
The Blue Veil
6.6/7
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
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The Blue Veil
1943
Swing Shift Maisie
6.5/3
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Bre...
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Swing Shift Maisie
1969
The 5-Man Army
6.52/49
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $5...
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