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William Desmond Taylor (26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Irish-born American director and actor. He directed 59 silent films between 1914 and 1922 and acted in 27 between 1913 and 1915. He was a popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion-picture colony of the 1910s and early 1920s.〔(USC-Lib-WDTaylor "The Unsolved Murder of William Desmond Taylor" ), usc.edu, 2 July 2000; accessed 21 July 2014.〕 Taylor's murder on 1 February 1922, along with other Hollywood scandals, such as the Roscoe Arbuckle trial, led to a frenzy of sensationalist and often fabricated newspaper reports.〔(''Taylorology'' (newsheet) ), September 2003; retrieved 6 January 2008.〕 His murder remains an official cold case.〔(''Taylorology'' (newsheet) ) Issue 4, April 1993; retrieved 12 May 2013.〕 ==Early life== William Cunningham Deane-Tanner was born into the Anglo-Irish gentry on 26 April 1872 at Evington House, County Carlow, Ireland, one of five children of a retired British Army officer, Major Kearns Deane-Tanner of the Carlow Rifles, and his wife, Jane O'Brien. His siblings were Denis Gage Deane-Tanner, Ellen "Nell" Deane-Tanner Faudel-Phillips, Lizzie "Daisy" Deane-Tanner and Oswald Kearns Deane-Tanner. The Home Rule MP Charles Kearns Deane Tanner was his father's youngest brother. In 1890 he left Ireland for a dude ranch in Kansas. At the time it was a short-lived trend among some of the Anglo-Irish and English gentry to send their sons to the United States to become "gentlemen farmers". In Kansas, William became reacquainted with acting (his first experiences being at school) eventually moving to New York.〔 While in New York, he worked in "The Antique Shoppe" and eventually married Ethel May Hamilton. The Episcopalian ceremony took place on 7 December 1901, at the Little Church Around the Corner;〔 they divorced in 1912. Although Mrs Deane-Tanner had appeared as a member of the ''Florodora'' sextet as Ethel May Harrison, she was the daughter of a wealthy Wall Street broker who provided Deane-Tanner with funding to set up the English Antiques Shop, through which he could support a family. The Deane-Tanners were well known in New York society and members of several clubs until Deane-Tanner abruptly vanished on 23 October 1908 at the age of 36, deserting his wife and their daughter Ethel Daisy.〔 After his disappearance friends said that William had suffered "mental lapses" before, and his family thought at first that he had wandered off during an episode of amnesia. His brother, Denis, a former lieutenant in the British Army and a manager of a New York antiques business, would also disappear four years later, in 1912, abandoning his wife and two children.〔〔(Taylorology-45 ''Taylorology'' (newsheet) ) Issue 45, September 1996.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Desmond Taylor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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