Meshach Taylor

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Meshach Taylor, April 2014
Meshach Taylor, 1989

Meshach Taylor (born April 11, 1947 in Boston , Massachusetts - † June 28, 2014 in Altadena , California ) was an American actor .

life and career

Taylor's parents were both professors. He graduated from Florida A&M University in 1993.

Meshach Taylor received a Joseph Jefferson Award in 1977 for his performance in Sizwe Banzi is Dead at the Goodman Stage II Theater in Chicago , Illinois . For the same award he received a nomination in 1979 for the play Native Son at the same theater.

Taylor had been married to Bianca Ferguson since 1983 and had three children with her. In addition, another child comes from a previous relationship. He died of complications from cancer.

His first engagement in front of the camera was the film Damien - Omen II , the sequel to Das Omen , when Dr. Kane . He then played in Michael Crichton's thriller Coma . Here were Geneviève Bujold as Dr. Susan Wheeler and Michael Douglas as Dr. To see Mark Bellows in the lead roles. In the episode Blind Rage of the third season of the television series The Incredible Hulk , Taylor made his first television appearance. He stood together with the Hulk actor Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby as Dr. Bruce Banner on camera. In May 1981 he was seen in the last episode of the ninth season of M * A * S * H as a medic. In the same year he was in the horror film by Joe Dante , The Beast . In 1983 he was seen in 26 episodes as Tony on the American sitcom Buffalo Bill . Here played Dabney Coleman in the title role. In the science fiction adventure Explorers - A Fantastic Adventure (1985) he was given a supporting role, with the then 15-year-old Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix given a leading role.

In the US sitcom Golden Girls , Meshach Taylor can be seen as a police officer in the episode The Engagement . He then made a guest appearance on the Alf series . In the television series Hill Street Police Station , he played two roles in 1982 and 1986. In the drama Inside Out , he got the supporting role of Freddy and he was seen with Elliott Gould in front of the camera. In the thriller The Last Innocent Man , with Ed Harris in the lead role, he was seen as Crosby . Taylor played the role of Hollywood in the comedy Mannequin , alongside Andrew McCarthy , Kim Cattrall and James Spader and in the sequel .

He was seen as Anthony Bouvier in 145 episodes of the series Mann does not have to be . Then embodied Meshach Taylor in the sitcom The Trouble with Dave the plastic surgeon Dr. Sheldon Baylor and Harry Anderson's character's best friend in 91 episodes. In 1993, he starred as Mr. N in the family film Halloween Twins, Now They Double Witches , with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in the lead roles. This was followed by television appearances as an agent of Lea Thompson's character Caroline in Caroline in the City (1996), as a bus driver in The Beaver Brothers (1998), in The Unit - A Question of Honor (2006) and Hannah Montana (2008).

In 1998 he made his Broadway debut as Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast , where he played alongside Toni Braxton .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

Movies

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Web links

Commons : Meshach Taylor  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl D. Windsor: On This Day: Daily Inspiration for the History Buff, the Trivia Lover, and the Innately Curious December 12, 2006, ISBN 978-1-58229-654-8 , p. 101.
  2. ^ Salem Press: Directory of Historical Figures 1999, ISBN 978-0-89356-334-9 , p. 619.
  3. ↑ 'Designing Women' Star Meshach Taylor Dies at 67
  4. ↑ a b Meshach Taylor. filmreference.com, accessed February 23, 2012 .
  5. ↑ variety.com, accessed June 29, 2014
  6. ^ Internet Broadway Database
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Meshach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2014
Place of death Altadena , California