Eric Taylor (screenwriter)

Eric Taylor (June 17, 1897 – September 8, 1952) was an American screenwriter with over fifty titles to his credit. He began writing crime fiction for the pulps before working in Hollywood. He contributed scripts to The Crime Club, Crime Doctor, Dick Tracy, Ellery Queen, and The Whistler series, as well as six Universal monster movies.

Career

Taylor wrote for various pulp magazines in the 1920s and 30s, including '' Black Mask'', ''Clues'', and ''Dime Detective''. He published seven stories with ''Black Mask'': "Jungle Justice" (1928), "The Murder Rap" (1928), "Boulevard Louis" (1928), "A Pinch of Snuff" (1929), "Red Death" (1935), "Murder to Music" (1936), and "The Calloused Hand" (1936).

In 1936, Taylor began writing for newly-formed Republic Pictures. Over the next three years he received a credit on six Republic movies and one with Universal. Beginning in 1939, Taylor began working with producers Larry Darmour and Rudolph Flothow. Taylor's first assignments under Darmour and Flothow were a number of action-adventure movies starring Jack Holt. From 1940 to 1942, Taylor contributed to eight Ellery Queen movies for Columbia Pictures. In 1942, Columbia replaced Ellery Queen with two other mystery series, both based on radio programs: ''The Crime Doctor'' and ''The Whistler''. Taylor wrote on six Crime Doctor and two Whistler movies. From 1941 to 1946, Taylor also contributed to six Universal monster movies, including entries in the Frankenstein and Dracula series. He wrote two Dick Tracy movies for RKO Pictures in 1945 and 1947. In the 1950s he returned to Republic Pictures where he wrote six more movies, five of which were Westerns.Eric Taylor (I) (1897-1952)
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In the early 1950s Taylor prolifically wrote many episodes for the American television series 'The Roy Rogers Show'', ''The Adventures of Kit Carson'' and ''Ramar of the Jungle''.

Personal life

Little is known of Taylor's personal life. He was born in Chicago in 1897 and died in 1952 in San Francisco of a heart attack while on vacation with his wife.

Works

*1953 ''White Goddess'' (episodes of ''Ramar of the Jungle'' edited into a feature film)
*1952 '' Big Jim McLain''
*1952 ''Colorado Sundown''
*1951 ''Pals of the Golden West''
*1951 '' South of Caliente''
*1951 '' Heart of the Rockies''
*1950 ''North of the Great Divide''
*1950 ''Destination Big House''
*1949 ''Prison Warden''
*1949 ''The Devil's Henchman''
*1949 ''The Secret of St. Ives''
*1947 ''Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome''
*1946 '' Crime Doctor's Man Hunt''
*1946 '' The Lie Detector''
*1946 ''Mysterious Intruder''
*1946 '' The Spider Woman Strikes Back''
*1946 '' Just Before Dawn''
*1945 '' Splitface''
*1945 '' Doctor's Warning''
*1945 '' The Doctor's Courage''
*1944 '' Shadows in the Night''
*1944 ''The Whistler''
*1943 '' Strangest Case''
*1943 '' Son of Dracula''
*1943 ''Phantom of the Opera''
*1943 ''No Place for a Lady''
*1942 '' The Lido Mystery''
*1942 '' A Desperate Chance''
*1942 ''The Ghost of Frankenstein''
*1942 ''A Close Call''
*1941 ''The Murder Ring''
*1941 '' The Perfect Crime''
*1941 '' The Black Cat''
*1941 '' The Great Swindle''
*1941 ''Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery''
*1940 ''Ellery Queen, Master Detective''
*1940 '' Mutiny of the Seas''
*1940 '' Black Friday''
*1939 ''Fugitive at Large''
*1939 ''Trapped in the Sky''
*1938 ''Orphans of the Street''
*1938 ''His Exciting Night''
*1938 ''Romance on the Run''
*1938 '' The Case of the Missing Blonde''
*1937 ''The Wrong Road''
*1937 ''Jim Hanvey, Detective''
*1937 '' Navy Blues''
*1936 '' Happy Go Lucky''

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1897 births
1952 deaths
American male screenwriters
Writers from Chicago
Writers from San Francisco
Screenwriters from California
Screenwriters from Illinois
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters