- He directed two science fiction films involving time travel: Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) and The Final Countdown (1980).
- Both he and his second wife Hazel Court appeared in Hammer films made during the 1950s. He appeared in The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) while Court appeared in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and The Man Who Could Cheat Death (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.
- Taylor "wrote one-act plays, radio dramas, short stories, and the 1985 TV movie My Wicked, Wicked Ways ... The Legend of Errol Flynn.".
- Stepfather of Sally Walsh.
- 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.
- 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.".
- Ex-son-in-law of Stephen Morehouse Avery.
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