Curiosidades

He directed two science fiction films involving time travel: Fuga do Planeta dos Macacos (1971) and Nimitz: De Volta ao Inferno (1980).

Both he and his second wife Hazel Court appeared in Hammer films made during the 1950s. He appeared in A Espada de Robin Hood (1954) while Court appeared in A Maldição de Frankenstein (1957) and O Homem que Enganou a Morte (1959).

Has two children with Hazel Court: Courtney Taylor and Jonathan Taylor.

Has two children with Phyllis Avery: Avery Taylor Moore and Anne Taylor Fleming; and a granddaughter Martine Avery Moore.

Stepfather of Sally Walsh.

Taylor "wrote one-act plays, radio dramas, short stories, and the 1985 TV movie My Wicked, Wicked Ways ... The Legend of Errol Flynn.".

Ex-son-in-law of Stephen Morehouse Avery.

He studied speech and drama at Penn State University and hitchhiked to Hollywood in 1942.

Drafted into the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) during World War II, he appeared in the Air Forces's Winged Victory Broadway play and movie (1944), credited as "Cpl. Don Taylor.".

He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including the 1948 film noir The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17.