Sam Taylor

Sam Taylor August 13 1895 March 6 1958 was an American film director screenwriter and producer most active in the silent film era Taylor is best known for his comedic directorial work with Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford and also later worked with Laurel and Hardy He was born in New York City A notorious cinematic legend over the decades has suggested that Taylors 1929 adaptation of Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew had the screen credit additional dialogue by Sam Taylor However no extant prints of the film contain this credit and there is no documentary evidence that it ever existed Taylor directed eight feature films with Lloyd as star with a number of them being codirecting with Fred C Newmeyer Taylor also directed Pickford in her first talkie feature with Coquette 1929 which garnered the latter an Academy Award Taylor died at the age of 62 in Santa Monica California