Vaughan Taylor
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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."
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Any Last Words? (Last Words) |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | The Long Ride Home |
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— | 2001 |
30% | The Gumball Rally |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Eleanor and Franklin |
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— | 1976 |
17% | The $1,000,000 Duck |
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— | 1971 |
93% | The Ballad of Cable Hogue |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | The Power |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | The Shakiest Gun in the West |
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— | 1968 |
83% | In Cold Blood |
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— | 1967 |
88% | The Professionals |
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— | 1966 |
86% | The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming |
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— | 1966 |
No Score Yet | Dark Intruder |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | Zebra in the Kitchen |
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— | 1965 |
78% | The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
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— | 1964 |
33% | The Carpetbaggers |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | The Wheeler Dealers |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | Twilight of Honor |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | Diamond Head |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | The Wizard Of Baghdad |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | The Plunderers |
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— | 1960 |
96% | Psycho |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | The Gallant Hours |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | Blue Denim |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | Warlock |
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— | 1959 |
97% | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | Screaming Mimi |
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— | 1958 |
86% | The Lineup |
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— | 1958 |
71% | The Young Lions |
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— | 1958 |
83% | Party Girl |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | Andy Hardy Comes Home |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | Decision at Sundown |
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— | 1957 |
80% | Jailhouse Rock |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | This Could Be the Night |
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— | 1957 |
100% | It Should Happen to You |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Meet Danny Wilson |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Up Front (Up Front with Mauldin) |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Francis Goes to the Races |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Picture Snatcher |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | Lawyer Man |
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— | 1933 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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The Streets of San Francisco
1972-1977
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No Score Yet |
The Odd Couple
1970-1975
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
Bewitched
1964-1972
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
The High Chaparral
1967-1971
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No Score Yet |
Get Smart
1965-1970
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No Score Yet |
The Fugitive
1963-1967
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No Score Yet |
The Andy Griffith Show
1960-1968
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No Score Yet |
My Favorite Martian
1963-1966
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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No Score Yet |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-1965
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No Score Yet |
Rawhide
1959-1965
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