![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: 1911 in Boston, MA Death: May 3, 1983 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:American actor "Vaughn Taylor" was trained as a certified public accountant at Northeastern University. While performing in college theatricals, Taylor entertained notions of a stage career; he won a scholarship at the Leland Powers School of Theatre, but his resources were so low that he had to sell his blood to blood banks to pay his expenses. Steady stock, tent-show, and radio work convinced Taylor that he'd made the right career move, and upon completing his Army duties in 1945, the actor took on the new challenge of live television. Taylor played so many TV roles that it is fruitless to try to list them, though the first "couch potato generation" might have affectionate memories of the actor as sharp-witted janitor Ernest P. Duckweather on the 1953 satirical puppet show "Johnny Jupiter". (Taylor was replaced by "Wright King" when the series went from live to film). Taylor was also a prominent... Full Biography
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