Sam Taylor
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Birth Place
New York City, New York, USA
Born
August 13, 1895
Died
March 06, 1958
Biography
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A scriptwriter and director who began his career in the silent era, Sam Taylor's first directorial effort was in 1922 with the romance "The Mohican's Daughter," after having begun to write scripts for Vitagraph a few years earlier. His first collaboration with Harold Lloyd was on the 1923 classic "Safety Last!," a film he directed and co-wrote. The film features a now famous part of cine...
Biography
A scriptwriter and director who began his career in the silent era, Sam Taylor's first directorial effort was in 1922 with the romance "The Mohican's Daughter," after having begun to write scripts for Vitagraph a few years earlier. His first collaboration with Harold Lloyd was on the 1923 classic "Safety Last!," a film he directed and co-wrote. The film features a now famous part of cinematic history--a scene with Lloyd's bank clerk hanging precariously from the hands of a large clock many stories above a city street. The pair teamed up again for 1924's "Girl Shy" and 1925's "The Freshman," featuring Lloyd as an over-eager collegiate. Taylor's association with starlet Mary Pickford began in 1927 on "My Best Girl," a romantic comedy. He worked with Pickford again on the drama "Coquette" and in 1929 he became part of the sound era with the adaptation "The Taming of the Shrew," starring Pickford and her then-husband Douglas Fairbanks. The film contained the now infamous credit "By William Shakespeare, with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor." He would work with Pickford once more, on the 1931 musical "Kiki" before reuniting with Lloyd on the 1934 comedy"The Cat's-Paw." His final directorial effort came in 1944 and allowed him to work with screen legends Laurel and Hardy, on the romp "Nothing But Trouble ."
Filmography
Director (Feature Film)
Nothing But Trouble
(1945)
Director
Married Bachelor
(1941)
Fill-in Assistant Director
Vagabond Lady
(1935)
Director
The Cat's-Paw
(1934)
Director
Out All Night
(1933)
Director
Business and Pleasure
(1932)
Director
Devil's Lottery
(1932)
Director
Skyline
(1931)
Director
Kiki
(1931)
Director
Ambassador Bill
(1931)
Director
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
(1930)
Director
Coquette
(1929)
Director
Taming of the Shrew
(1929)
Director
The Woman Disputed
(1928)
Director
Tempest
(1928)
Director
My Best Girl
(1927)
Director
Exit Smiling
(1926)
Director
For Heaven's Sake
(1926)
Director
The Freshman
(1925)
Director
Girl Shy
(1924)
Director
Hot Water
(1924)
Director
Safety Last!
(1923)
Director
Why Worry?
(1923)
Director
Writer (Feature Film)
The Cat's-Paw
(1934)
Screenwriter
Kiki
(1931)
Adaptation
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
(1930)
Adaptation
Lady of the Pavements
(1929)
Scen
Taming of the Shrew
(1929)
Adaptation
Coquette
(1929)
Dial
Exit Smiling
(1926)
Scen
The Freshman
(1925)
Story and Screenplay
Hot Water
(1924)
Story
Girl Shy
(1924)
Story
Why Worry?
(1923)
Story
Safety Last!
(1923)
Story
Doctor Jack
(1922)
Story
Grandma's Boy
(1922)
Story
Princess Jones
(1921)
Scen
A Sailor-Made Man
(1921)
Story
Human Collateral
(1920)
Scen
The Midnight Bride
(1920)
Scen
In Honor's Web
(1919)
Scen
Over the Garden Wall
(1919)
Scen
The Gray Towers Mystery
(1919)
Scen
The Gamblers
(1919)
Scen
Film Production - Main (Feature Film)
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
(1947)
Scen, <I>The Freshman</I>
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
(1947)
Director, <I>The Freshman</I>
Production Companies (Feature Film)
Vagabond Lady
(1935)
Company
Devil's Lottery
(1932)
Company
Skyline
(1931)
Company
Kiki
(1931)
Company
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