FORREST TAYLOR BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Forrest Taylor was born on December 29th, 1883 in Bloomington, Illinois with the birth name Edwin Forrest Taylor. His career as an actor began as a stage actor before moving to work in silent films and later 'talkies'.
He began his film career in 1915 and added such film short credits to his resume as, "In the Sunset Country" (1915), "April" (1916), "True Nobility" (1916), "The Abandonment" (1916) and "The Thunderbolt" (1916).
Between 1916 and 1926 he did not appear in any short films and his career was interrupted by serving in the military during World War I. Upon completing his service, he returned to stage acting and continued his pursuit of a full time career in the film industry. Over the course of his career, he would add four hundred film and television appearances, although many were un-credited.
Some of his more well known film roles during this time included, "Riders of Destiny" (1933) starring John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Lafe McKee, Al 'Fuzzy' St. John and Yakima Canutt, "The Miracle Rider" (1935) starring Tom Mix, Charles Middleton, Jason Robards, Edmund Cobb, Tom London and George Chesebro, "The Oregon Trail" (1939) starring Johnny Mack Brown, Louise Stanley, Roy Barcroft, John Forrest 'Fuzzy' Knight and Bill Cody Jr., "The Green Archer" (1940) starring Victor Jory, Iris Meredith and Jack Ingram, "Reap the Wild Wind" (1940) starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, Charles Bickford, Louise Beavers, Raymond Massey, Hedda Hopper and Susan Hayward, "The Spider Returns" (1941) starring Warren Hull, Mary Ainslee and Dave O'Brien, "The Iron Claw" (1941) starring Charles Quigley and Joyce Bryant, "The Spoilers" (1942), "The Great Dan Patch" (1949) starring Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell, Charlotte Greenwood, Henry Hull, Harry Lauter, Clarence Muse and Arthur Hunnicutt and "Winchester '73" (1950) starring James Stewart, Stephen McNally, Will Geer, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Millard Mitchell, Rock Hudson, John McIntire, Jay C. Flippen, Steve Brodie and Tony Curtis.
Along with film work he began to make quite a name for himself as a television actor appearing on such series as, "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine, "Annie Oakley" starring Gail Davis and Jimmy Hawkins, "The Cisco Kid" starring Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo, "Maverick" starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, "This Is the Life", "Racket Squad" starring Reed Hadley, "Bonanza", "The Gene Autry Show", "Zane Grey Theatre", "Lassie", "Waterfront", "The Roy Rogers Show", "Medic" starring Richard Boone, "The Lineup" starring Macdonald Carey, "Lawman" starring John Russell and Peter Brown, "Cheyenne" starring Clint Walker, "The Life of Riley" starring William Bendix and Marjorie Reynolds and his final television appearance was in, "Ripcord" (1963) starring Larry Pennell and Ken Curtis.
He passed away two years after his retirement on February 19th, 1965 in Garden Grove, California at the age of eighty one from natural causes.
Filmography
1963 Ripcord
1960-1962 Bonanza
1961 Whispering Smith
1955-1961 Lassie
1960 Tales of Wells Fargo
1960 Cheyenne
1960 Lawman
1960 Overland Trail
1960 M Squad
1960 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1960 Maverick
1959 The Dennis O'Keefe Show
1959 The FBI Story
1957-1959 Man Without a Gun
1959 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1959 Father Knows Best
1958 Zane Grey Theatre
1958 The Lineup
1957 Man of a Thousand Faces
1957 Matinee Theatre
1957 Footsteps in the Night
1957 The 20th Century-Fox Hour
1956-1957 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1957 Official Detective
1956 My Friend Flicka
1955 Medic
1954-1955 Cavalcade of America
1955 Four Star Playhouse
1955 The Touch of Steel
1952-1955 The Roy Rogers Show
1955 Waterfront
1954 Dawn at Socorro
1954 The Gene Autry Show
1954 Ring of Fear
1954 Annie Oakley
1954 Rails Into Laramie
1954 Hopalong Cassidy
1954 The Boy from Oklahoma
1954 Bitter Creek
1950-1953 The Cisco Kid
1953 Calamity Jane
1953 The Marshal's Daughter
1953 The Lost Planet
1953 Iron Mountain Trail
1953 Gunsmoke
1952 The Unexpected
1952 South Pacific Trail
1952 This Is the Life
1952 Park Row
1952 Untamed Frontier
1952 The Story of Will Rogers
1952 Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952 Wagons West
1952 Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1952 Denver and Rio Grande
1952 Border Saddlemates
1952 Rancho Notorious
1952 Flaming Feather
1952 Night Raiders
1952 Smoky Canyon
1952 Craig Kennedy, Criminologist
1951 Lawless Cowboys
1951 Utah Wagon Train
1951 Racket Squad
1951 Wells Fargo Gunmaster
1951 Blazing Bullets
1951 Don Daredevil Rides Again
1951 Prairie Roundup
1951 Close to My Heart
1950 Rustlers on Horseback
1950 Cherokee Uprising
1950 I Killed Geronimo
1950 Winchester '73
1950 Johnny One-Eye
1950 The Arizona Cowboy
1950 Code of the Silver Sage
1950 The Fighting Stallion
1950 Forbidden Jungle
1950 The Fargo Phantom
1950 Montana
1950 The Life of Riley
1949 Cowboy and the Prizefighter
1949 The Great Dan Patch
1949 Deputy Marshal
1949 The Pecos Pistol
1949 Navajo Trail Raiders
1949 The Fighting Redhead
1949 The Gal Who Took the West
1949 Scene of the Crime
1949 Stallion Canyon
1949 The Lawton Story
1949 Death Valley Gunfighter
1949 South of St. Louis
1949 Bruce Gentry
1948 The Plunderers
1948 The Golden Ey
1948 Four Faces West
1948 Return of the Bad Men
1948 Superman
1948 Coroner Creek
1948 Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
1948 Albuquerque
1947 Big Town After Dark
1947 Mystery Range
1947 Shadow Valley
1947 The Black Widow
1947 Buckaroo from Powder River
1947 Unconquered
1947 Along the Oregon Trail
1947 The Pretender
1947 The Stranger from Ponca City
1947 Rustlers of Devil's Canyon
1947 Yankee Fakir
1947 The Sea of Grass
1947 Code of the West
1947 Trail Street
1947 Vacation Days
1946 Renegade Girl
1946 Stagecoach to Denver
1946 Santa Fe Uprising
1946 Lady Luck
1946 The Crimson Ghost
1946 Driftin' River
1946 Strange Voyage
1946 Colorado Serenade
1946 That Texas Jamboree
1946 The Glass Alibi
1946 Galloping Thunder
1946 The Caravan Trail
1946 Romance of the West
1946 Strange Impersonation
1946 Girl on the Spot
1945 Texas Panhandle
1945 Lawless Empire
1945 Bandits of the Badlands
1945 Dangerous Intruder
1945 Mr. Muggs Rides Again
1945 Federal Operator 99
1945 Bewitched
1945 The Master Key
1945 The Power of the Whistler
1945 Rockin' in the Rockies
1945 Identity Unknown
1945 Manhunt of Mystery Island
1945 Rough Ridin' Justice
1945 Sing Me a Song of Texas
1945 Sagebrush Heroes
1945 Mom and Dad
1945 Beyond the Pecos
1944 Can't Help Singing
1944 Zorro's Black Whip
1944 Cyclone Prairie Rangers
1944 Cheyenne Wildcat
1944 Haunted Harbor
1944 Trail to Gunsight
1944 Song of Nevada
1944 Wilson
1944 Three Little Sisters
1944 The Desert Hawk
1944 The Last Horseman
1944 Sonora Stagecoach
1944 Mystery Man
1944 Ghost Catchers
1944 Boss of Boomtown
1944 Shake Hands with Murder
1944 Outlaws of Santa Fe
1944 Sundown Valley
1944 Mojave Firebrand
1944 Lady in the Death House
1944 Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
1944 Beneath Western Skies
1943 Death Valley Rangers
1943 Bullets and Saddles
1943 The Kansan
1943 Sleepy Lagoon
1943 Silver Spurs
1943 Spy Train
1943 Song of Texas
1943 Wild Horse Stampede
1943 King of the Cowboys
1943 Air Raid Wardens
1943 Corregidor
1943 Land of Hunted Men
1943 Hangmen Also Die!
1943 Idaho
1943 A Night for Crime
1943 Dead Men Walk
1943 The Fighting Buckaroo
1943 Thundering Trails
1943 Man of Courage
1942 Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942 The Rangers Take Over
1942 The Valley of Vanishing Men
1942 Trail Riders
1942 The Living Ghost
1942 The Pay Off
1942 The Yanks Are Coming
1942 Outlaws of Pine Ridge
1942 King of the Mounties
1942 Overland Mail
1942 King of the Stallions
1942 Arizona Stage Coach
1942 Sons of the Pioneers
1942 Perils of Nyoka
1942 In Old California
1942 Juke Girl
1942 Perils of the Royal Mounted
1942 The Spoilers
1942 Home in Wyomin'
1942 Down Rio Grande Way
1942 Sunset on the Desert
1942 Reap the Wild Wind
1942 Lawless Plainsmen
1942 Bullets for Bandits
1942 Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942 Cowboy Serenade
1942 Code of the Outlaw
1942 Texas Man Hunt
1942 Nostradamus and the Queen
1942 The Lone Star Vigilantes
1941 Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941 Riot Squa
1941 Underground Rustlers
1941 Sea Raiders
1941 King of the Texas Rangers
1941 The Iron Claw
1941 They Meet Again
1941 Kansas Cyclone
1941 Wrangler's Roost
1941 The Spider Returns
1941 The Singing Hill
1941 Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals
1941 Pals of the Pecos
1941 Flying Wild
1941 Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
1941 Ridin' on a Rainbow
1941 The Lone Rider Rides On
1940 The Wildcat of Tucson
1940 Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
1940 The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940 The Trail Blazers
1940 The Green Archer
1940 West of Abilene
1940 Trailing Double Trouble
1940 Under Texas Skies
1940 That Gang of Mine
1940 Arizona Gang Busters
1940 When the Daltons Rode
1940 The Durango Kid
1940 Deadwood Dick
1940 Boys of the City
1940 Pony Express Days
1940 The Golden Trail
1940 Wild Horse Range
1940 Frontier Crusader
1940 The Kid from Santa Fe
1940 Terry and the Pirates
1940 Rhythm of the Rio Grande
1940 The Cheyenne Kid
1940 Young Tom Edison
1940 The Sagebrush Family Trails West
1939 My Son Is Guilty
1939 Chip of the Flying U
1939 Meet Dr. Christian
1939 Rovin' Tumbleweeds
1939 Trigger Fingers
1939 Danger Flight
1939 The Phantom Creeps
1939 Dick Tracy's G-Men
1939 The Fighting Renegade
1939 Riders of Black River
1939 Straight Shooter
1939 The Fighting Gringo
1939 The Oregon Trail
1939 Stunt Pilot
1939 S.O.S. Tidal Wave
1939 Street of Missing Men
1939 Outlaws' Paradise
1939 The Law Comes to Texas
1939 Texas Wildcats
1939 Trigger Smith
1939 The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1939 Code of the Cactus
1939 Honor of the West
1939 Stand Up and Fight
1939 The Phantom Stage
1938 Ghost Town Riders
1938 California Frontier
1938 Rio Grande
1938 Gun Packer
1938 Prairie Justice
1938 Law of the Texan
1938 Guilty Trails
1938 Lightning Carson Rides Again
1938 Crime Takes a Holiday
1938 Nostradamus
1938 Black Bandit
1938 Phantom Gold
1938 Durango Valley Raiders
1938 Dick Tracy Returns
1938 Heroes of the Hills
1938 Prison Break
1938 Man's Country
1938 The Story of Doctor Carver
1938 Outlaw Express
1938 Desert Patrol
1938 Songs and Saddles
1938 Western Trails
1938 The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938 The Feud Maker
1938 The Last Stand
1938 Frontier Town
1938 The Spy Ring
1937 Headin' East
1937 Amateur Crook
1937 Courage of the West
1937 Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
1937 Where Trails Divide
1937 Moonlight on the Range
1937 Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
1937 Stars Over Arizona
1937 The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
1937 Island Captives
1937 The Red Rope
1937 Riders of the Dawn
1937 Lost Ranch
1937 Orphan of the Pecos
1937 Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States
1937 Arizona Days
1937 The Roaming Cowboy
1936 Headin' for the Rio Grande
1936 Death in the Air
1936 The Phantom of the Range
1936 Song of the Gringo
1936 Ellis Island
1936 Two Minutes to Play
1936 Rip Roarin' Buckaroo
1936 Shadow of Chinatown
1936 Put on the Spot
1936 Men of the Plains
1936 Charlie Chan at the Race Track
1936 It Couldn't Have Happened - But It Did
1936 Kelly of the Secret Service
1936 West of Nevada
1936 Prison Shadows
1936 Too Much Beef
1936 Rio Grande Romance
1936 Rogue of the Range
1936 Desert Phantom
1936 Taming the Wild
1936 A Face in the Fog
1936 Valley of the Lawless
1936 Tell Your Children
1935 Trail of Terror
1935 The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935 The Courageous Avenger
1935 Alias John Law
1935 Between Men
1935 The Rider of the Law
1935 Death from a Distance
1935 No Man's Range
1935 Honeymoon Limited
1935 Great God Gold
1935 The Miracle Rider
1935 Mississippi
1935 Big Calibre
1935 Shadow of Doubt
1935 The Gilded Lily
1934 The Mysterious Mr. Wong
1933 Riders of Destiny
1933 Neighbors' Wives
1933 Broadway to Hollywood
1933 One Man's Journey
1933 Turn Back the Clock
1932 The Death Kiss
1930 Reno
1926 No Man's Gold
1926 A Poor Girl's Romance
1916 The Fighting Heiress
1916 The Girl from Frisco
1916 The Madonna of the Night
1916 Black Magic
1916 The Music Swindlers
1916 In the Service of the State
1916 The Abandonment
1916 The Disappearance of Helen Mintern
1916 April
1916 The Social Pirates
1916 True Nobility
1916 The White Rosett
1916 Wild Jim, Reformer
1916 The Thunderbolt
1916 The Hills of Glory
1915 The Mender
1915 In the Sunset Country
1915 There's Good in the Worst of Us
1915 Broadcloth and Buckskin
1915 The Valley Feud
1915 The Warning
1915 The Trail of the Serpent
1915 The Idol
1915 The Sheriff of Willow Creek
1915 Two Spot Joe
1915 Let There Be Light
1915 Man-Afraid-of-His-Wardrobe
1915 The Terror of Twin Mountains
