- Kent Taylor
Infobox actor
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name = Kent Taylor
birthname = Louis William Weiss
imagesize = 150px
birthdate = birth date|1906|5|11
location = Nashua,Iowa , USA
deathdate = death date and age|1987|4|11|1906|5|11
deathplace = Woodland Hills,California ,USA Kent Taylor (
May 11 ,1906 –April 11 ,1987 ) was an Americanactor . Born Louis William Weiss inNashua, Iowa , Taylor appeared in more than 110 films, the bulk of themB-movie s in the 1930s and 1940s, although he also had roles in more prestigious studio releases, including "I'm No Angel ", "Death Takes a Holiday ", "Payment on Demand ", and "Track the Man Down ".In the 1950s, with his movie career on the decline and
television production on the upswing, he played the title role in 58 episodes of thedetective series "Boston Blackie " and the lead in 39 episodes of "The Rough Riders". Other small screen credits include "My Little Margie ", "Tales of Wells Fargo ", "Zorro", "Bat Masterson", "Peter Gunn ", and "Hawaiian Eye ". The last years of his career were spent in slasher and horror films with titles like "Satan's Sadists ", "Blood of Ghastly Horror ", "I Spit on Your Corpse ", and "Hell's Bloody Devils".Taylor is interred in the
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery inLos Angeles .Trivia
Along with
Clark Gable , Kent Taylor served as the inspiration behind the name ofSuperman 's alter-ego -Clark Kent . [cite news | first=John | last=Gross | title=Books of the Times | date=December 15 ,1987 | publisher=New York Times | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DC1F38F936A25751C1A961948260 |accessdate=2007-01-29 ]Footnotes
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