Biography
Donald Richie Taylor (December 13, 1920 – December 29, 1998) was an American actor and film director. He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17. He later turned to directing films such as Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Tom Sawyer (1973), Echoes of a Summer (1976), and Damien: Omen II (1978). Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list o...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Holy Wars
2010
as Himself
Take one Muslim advocate for global jihad and put him in a room with one conservative Christian on a mission to evangelize the world's Muslims. Which ...

That's Entertainment! III
1994
as (archive footage)
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to G...

The Diamond Trap
1988
Director
When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marinaro) discover a major diamond heist is about to go ...

Ghost of a Chance
1987
Director
A television movie about a veteran policeman who accidentally kills a musician. The ghost of the musician returns to persuade the cop to steer the mus...

Classified Love
1986
Director, Producer
Three ad agency buddies, who cannot seem to find fulfilling love, decide to place personal ads to find new romance. The resulting blind dates and ulti...

Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
1985
Director
The true story of Bill Johnson, the first US men's skiing gold medal winner, whose Olympics dreams were threatened by his rebellious attitude.

Secret Weapons
1985
Director
Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.

My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
1985
Teleplay, Director
The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn

The Manhunt
1984
A young man buys two horses at an Arizona race track but fails to get a receipt. Later, when riding across the land of a rancher named Robeson, he's a...

He's Not Your Son
1984
Director
Two couples face the possibility that their infant sons, both born on the same day, were inadvertently switched at the hospital, and a chain of revela...

September Gun
1983
Director
Ben Sunday, a long-in-tooth gunfighter forms an uneasy alliance with a Catholic nun. The single-minded sister wants to erect a sanctuary for a group o...
Ghost Dancing
1983
Director
Farm widow Sarah Bowman has been impoverished by the siphoning of her water supply. A nearby big-city aqueduct has priority over water rights, leaving...

Listen to Your Heart
1983
Director
This romantic melodrama features a book editor falling in love with his art director.

Drop-Out Father
1982
Director
Successful advertising executive decides to get out of the rat race but the family rebels at the new lifestyle he outlines. He and his youngest daught...

Red Flag: The Ultimate Game
1981
Director
Two fighter pilots, Phil Clark and Jay Rivers, who flew together in Vietnam are assigned to the elite Air Force Fighter Weapons School (known as "Red ...

Broken Promise
1981
Producer, Director
A juvenile court services director strives to fight the odds following his promise to a resourceful 11-year-old to keep her and her four younger broth...

The Promise of Love
1980
Director
A teenage bride becomes a war widow when her Marine Corps husband is killed in Vietnam, until into her life comes a civilian recreation director who w...

In Hiding
1980
Director, Writer
A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

The Final Countdown
1980
Director
During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in tim...

The Gift
1979
Director
A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.

Damien - Omen II
1978
Director
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military sc...

When the Actors Come
1978
Writer, Director
On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary. ...

For Tea on Sunday
1978
Director
An unexpected force shatters the urbane calm of a Sunday afternoon tea party.

Flayed
1978
Director, Writer
'There's absolutely no escape. No chairs or tables to hold on to, no fags to light or drinks to pour: no small talk or trivial daytime chatter. Just t...

The Island of Dr. Moreau
1977
Director
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turne...

A Circle Street of Children
1977
Director
A teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed children takes an interest in one particular child who doesn't talk but emits a stream of gibberish.

The Achurch Letters
1977
Director, Writer
1889: young Bernard Shaw falls under the spell of actress Janet Achurch. An important and highly charged relationship develops.

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
1976
Director
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were pr...

Dad
1976
Director, Writer
'Listen Dad, it's me, Tom. I know you recognise me. Why don't you speak? Just say my name. Tom.' Dad's bewildering silence forces the family to face t...

The Hemingway Play
1976
Director
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.

Echoes of a Summer
1976
Director
A young girl with a terminal heart condition plans to celebrate her 12th birthday on one last summer holiday with her parents in Nova Scotia.

Honky Tonk
1974
Director
In the wild west con-man 'Candy' Johnson heads to Nevada to set up his own gambling den and teams up with Lucy Cotton, a young woman he meets there. T...

Night Games
1974
Director
A Harvard-educated, big-city lawyer moves to a small Arizona town to set up practice. His first case is defending a beautiful socialite accused of mur...

Tom Sawyer
1973
Director
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and wit...

The Man Hunter
1972
Director
A professional hunter is brought in to track a bank robbery suspect through a Louisiana swamp, and winds up getting romantically involved with the sus...

Heat of Anger
1972
Director
A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's...

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...

Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971
Director
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans...

Wild Women
1970
Director
Five female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840

The 5-Man Army
1969
as Poker Player (uncredited)
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $5...

The 5-Man Army
1969
Director
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $5...

Something for a Lonely Man
1968
Director
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the tow...

The Enemy
1967
Director
During the Battle of the Bulge, word goes out to watch for German soldiers dressed as GIs. That's when black sergeant Chris Christiansen begins wonder...

Jack of Diamonds
1967
Director
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemi...

And Did Those Feet ?
1965
Director
Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.

Ride the Wild Surf
1964
Director
A group of friends go to Hawaii during the height of surfing season, to compete with other surf bums and find girlfriends along the way.

The Winter's Tale
1962
Director
Adaptation of the Shakespeare play.

Everything's Ducky
1961
Director
Everything's Ducky is a 1961 film directed by Don Taylor and starring Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, and Jackie Cooper. Two sailors sneak a talking du...

The Savage Guns
1961
as Mike Summers
This Western is set in the Mexican valley of Sonora not that far south of the state of Arizona. It's just after the American Civil War, and a former C...

Love Slaves of the Amazons
1957
as Dr. Pete L. Masters
A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves."

Ride The High Iron
1956
as Hugo Danielchik
A recent war veteran accepts a job in public relations, but he becomes increasingly unhappy with his career choice. Originally filmed for TV but relea...

The Bold and the Brave
1956
as Ewald "Preacher" Wallister
An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.

I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955
as Wallie
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her...

The Men of Sherwood Forest
1954
as Robin Hood
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from ca...

Johnny Dark
1954
as Duke Benson
A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laur...

Stalag 17
1953
as Lt. James Dunbar
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seem...

The Girls of Pleasure Island
1953
as Lt. Jimmy Gilmartin
In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his thr...

Destination Gobi
1953
as Jenkins
A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship...

Japanese War Bride
1952
as Jim Sterling
A Korean war vet and his bride face subtle and sometimes extreme racism when they return to his home in rural California.

Submarine Command
1951
as Lt. Cmdr. Peter Morris
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequ...

The Blue Veil
1951
as Dr. Robert Palfrey
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.

Flying Leathernecks
1951
as Lt. Vern 'Cowboy' Blithe
Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds...

Father's Little Dividend
1951
as Buckley Dunstan
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be...

Target Unknown
1951
as Lt. Frank Webster
World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners by the German army.

Father of the Bride
1950
as Buckley Dunstan
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself,...

Ambush
1950
as Lt. Linus Delaney
A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.

Battleground
1949
as Standiferd
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Ho...

For the Love of Mary
1948
as David Paxton
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.

The Naked City
1948
as Jimmy Halloran
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

Song of the Thin Man
1947
as Buddy Hollis
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Time to Kill
1945
as George
A group of sailors kid their shipmate Frank about his constant reading, when they would all rather play cards. But each of them has a dream for the fu...
The Last Bomb
1945
as Gunner
Documentary of the planning and delivery of the last great bomber attack on the city of Tokyo by the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II.

Winged Victory
1944
as Danny 'Pinkie' Scariano
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with ...

Swing Shift Maisie
1943
as Young Pilot (Uncredited)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Bre...