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John Russell Taylor(1935-2025)

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John Russell Taylor was born on 19 June 1935 in Dover, Kent, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Mystery and Imagination (1966), A Countess from Hong Kong: Charles Chaplin at Work (1967) and Hadleigh (1969). He died on 18 August 2025.
BornJune 19, 1935
DiedAugust 18, 2025(90)
BornJune 19, 1935
DiedAugust 18, 2025(90)
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Known for

Ian Holm, Denholm Elliott, Robert Eddison, Freddie Jones, and Patrick Mower in Mystery and Imagination (1966)
Mystery and Imagination
7.3
TV Series
  • Writer
A Countess from Hong Kong: Charles Chaplin at Work
Short
  • Writer
  • 1967
Gerald Harper in Hadleigh (1969)
Hadleigh
7.1
TV Series
  • Writer
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7.1
  • Self
  • 2014

Credits

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Writer

  • Gerald Harper in Hadleigh (1969)
    Hadleigh
    7.1
    TV Series
    • writer
    • 1971
  • Ian Holm, Denholm Elliott, Robert Eddison, Freddie Jones, and Patrick Mower in Mystery and Imagination (1966)
    Mystery and Imagination
    7.3
    TV Series
    • by
    • 1970
  • A Countess from Hong Kong: Charles Chaplin at Work
    Short
    • commentary written by
    • 1967

Personal details

  • Born
    • June 19, 1935
    • Dover, Kent, England, UK
  • Died
    • August 18, 2025
  • Other works
    Article, "Bound by the spell of Hitch," Published in "The Times," 7 July 2005.

Did you know

  • Trivia
    Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1969
  • Quotes
    Whoever it was who first thought the cinema was an art, he should have kept his mouth shut. Not that it isn't, but there are so many terrible instances of films made specifically to be art which come perilously close to making us doubt the whole proposition.

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