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- Birth nameHarold Alexander Taylor Jr.
- Noel Taylor was born on January 17, 1913 in Youngstown, Ohio, USA. He was a costume designer, known for Actor (1978), Treasure of the Amazon (1985) and A World Apart (1970). He died on November 4, 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Career as a costume designer began when Marc Chagall asked him to help paint costumes for the New York City Ballet's 1949 production of "The Firebird", staged by George Balanchine.
- He accompanied Julie Harris for the 2005 Kennedy Center Honors for Washington D.C. where she wore a Taylor dress. He was a favorite designer of Julie Harris and Katharine Helpburn.
- He is survived by his nephew, Marshall C. Taylor Jr.
- He served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II.
- He dropped out of school at 16 years old to work in the theater in New York City. He lived in Paris, France for two years from 1920 to 1922.
- (Interview with the Los Angeles Times in 1980): When I'm doing a costume, I don't think of it as a piece of wardrobe. I think of it as a painting.
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