Vaughan Taylor
Bio: American actor Vaughn Taylor was trained as a certified public accountant at Northeastern University. While performing in college theatricals, Taylor entertained notions of a stage career; he won a scholarship at the Leland Powers School of Theatre, but his resources were so low that he had to sell his blood to blood banks to pay his expenses. Steady stock,… More Bio: American actor Vaughn Taylor was trained as a certified public accountant at Northeastern University. While performing in college theatricals, Taylor entertained notions of a stage career; he won a scholarship at the Leland Powers School of Theatre, but his resources were so low that he had to sell his blood to blood banks to pay his expenses. Steady stock, tent-show, and radio work convinced Taylor that he'd made the right career move, and upon completing his Army duties in 1945, the actor took on the new challenge of live television. Taylor played so many TV roles that it is fruitless to try to list them, though the first "couch potato generation" might have affectionate memories of the actor as sharp-witted janitor Ernest P. Duckweather on the 1953 satirical puppet show Johnny Jupiter. (Taylor was replaced by Wright King when the series went from live to film). Taylor was also a prominent "summer repertory" actor on the prestigious anthology Robert Montgomery Presents from 1952 through 1954. The movies utilized Taylor's talents, often in roles as duplicitous executives or crooked business partners: he was the two-timing showman beheaded by magician Vincent Price in The Mad Magician (1954). Anyone who follows the reruns of The Twilight Zone will be more than familiar with the skill and range of Vaughn Taylor: he played bookworm Burgess Meredith's hardhearted boss in "Time Enough at Last," a crazed old conjurer in "Still Valley," an unctuous robot salesman in "I Sing the Body Electric" and a kindly wheelchair-bound gent who sells his kindness and becomes a killer in "The Self-Improvement of Salvatore Ross." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
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The Gumball Rally (1976)
- Andy
- 22%
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Eleanor & Franklin: The Early Years (1976)
- Actor
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Million Dollar Duck (1971)
- Actor
- 0%
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
- Powell
- 93%
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The Power (1968)
- Mr. Hallson
- See all 36 films
Vaughan Taylor Videos
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
2 minutes 17 seconds
Jailhouse Rock
1 minutes 43 seconds
Psycho
1 minutes 45 seconds
The Professionals
3 minutes 2 seconds
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
2 minutes 36 seconds
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