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Kent Taylor (May 11, 1906 - April 11, 1987), born Louis William Weiss in Nashua, Iowa, was an American actor who appeared in over 110 films. He was mainly a B-movie actor of the 1930s and 1940s.

In addition to leads in low-budget films, he acted in supporting roles in more expensive films, including I'm No Angel (1933) as one of Mae West's pursuers. In the 1950s, with his movie career on the decline, he took roles on television while appearing in increseasingly smaller budget efforts in film. He played the title role on the detective program Boston Blackie from the early 1950s that ran in repeats into the 1960s. Late in the 1960s and early seventies he appeared in Z-grade films with titles like Satan's Sadists and I Spit on Your Corpse!

On his passing in 1987, Kent Taylor was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

His first name was the inspiration for Clark Kent's last name.

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