Trivia

Taylor's 1929 film 'The Taming of the Shrew' (starring Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford) originally credited the production as written 'by William Shakespeare, with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor'. It appears, that the film was rather quickly taken out of circulation and the credits revised.

He has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: El hombre mosca (1923) & The Freshman (1925).

Brother of writer Matt Taylor.

Not to be confused with Broadway playwright (and later screenwriter) Samuel A. Taylor (1912-2000).

Directed one Oscar winning performance: Mary Pickford in Coquette (1929).