William Desmond Taylor

William Desmond Taylor, an Anglo-Irish-American film director and actor, was a prominent figure in the burgeoning Hollywood motion picture industry during the 1910s and early 1920s. Between 1914 and 1922, he directed fifty-nine silent films, while also acting in twenty-seven films between 1913 and 1915. Tragically, his 1922 murder remains an unsolved mystery to this day.