Career
He usually played gruff men of authority like wardens, judges or the police commissioner in Tod Browning"son Of some other surviving silent he can be seen in Houdini"son Prior to entering films he spent some years on the stage and appeared as a police inspector in the original 1912 Broadway production of Within the Law starring Jane Cowl.
Taylor died in January 1925.
His grave is unmarked at Grand View Memorial Park, Glendale Californina.