Stanner E.V. Taylor


Stanner E.V. Taylor was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He wrote for more than 100 films between 1908 and 1929.

Biography

He was born on September 28, 1877, in St. Louis, Missouri, and died on November 23, 1948, in Los Angeles, California. He was married to Biograph Company actress Marion Leonard. The worked together in Where the Breakers Roar.

Career

He wrote Native Americans and western films like Comata, the Sioux, The Kentuckian, A Mohawk's Way, The Mohican's Daughter, The Squaw's Love, and The Yaqui Cur.
He met D. W. Griffith when he first arrived at Biograph Company, when newspaperman Lee Doc Dougherty headed the story department and hired Griffith as chief scenarist. He worked under the direction of Griffith in The Mended Lute, The Impalement, The Purgation, A Flash of Light, The Great Love, The Greatest Thing in Life, The Girl Who Stayed at Home, Scarlet Days, The Greatest Question and The Idol Dancer. They worked together in the screenplay for The Hun Within.
He worked with Mack Sennett in Over the Hills to the Poor House, In the Season of Buds, A Midnight Cupid and An Arcadian Maid.
He directed an unknown film called The Terror, released on July 13, 1922.

Selected filmography

The Adventures of Dollie The Greaser's Gauntlet Where the Breakers Roar The Pirate's Gold The Kentuckian One Touch of Nature In Old California A Romance of the Western Hills Ramona In the Border States What the Daisy Said A Flash of Light A Mohawk's Way The Last Drop of Water Through Darkened Vales Under Burning Skies The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch In the Aisles of the Wild The Tenderfoot's Money Two Men of the Desert The Yaqui Cur The Rise of Susan Passers By Public Be Damned The Great Love The Greatest Thing in Life The Greatest Question The Mohican's Daughter Roulette The Miracle of Life Dog Law