Add/Update Information: Don Taylor - Director

An American actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He studied Law and Drama at Penn State University, where he participated in undergraduate productions. He travelled to Hollywood in 1942 and was given a small role of a soldier in The Human Comedy (1943). He got many secondary roles were followed before he enlisted in the army, but even there, he continued to act and work as a playwright and screenwriter. Moss Hart chose him to play a potential client in the U.S. Army Air Force production of Hart's Winged Victory. He directed Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Echoes of a Summer (1976), The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976), Doctor Moreau's Island (1977), Damien: Omen II (1978), and The Final Countdown (1980). He died on December 29, 1998 in Los Angeles, at the age of 78 due to heart failure