Meshach Taylor was best known for his role as Anthony Bouvier on the CBS sitcom Designing Women, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
16 Facts About Meshach Taylor
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Meshach Taylor was known for his portrayal of Hollywood Montrose, a flamboyant window dresser in the 1987 film Mannequin and its 1991 sequel.
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Meshach Taylor played Sheldon Baylor on the CBS sitcom Dave's World, appeared as Tony on the NBC sitcom Buffalo Bill opposite Dabney Coleman, and appeared as the recurring character Alastair Wright, the social studies teacher on the Nickelodeon sitcom Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.
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Meshach Taylor honed his craft in repertory theater as a member of Chicago's Goodman Theatre, and the Organic Theater Company alongside Joe Mantegna, Andre DeShields, Dennis Franz, Keith Szarabajka, Jack Wallace, and director Stuart Gordon.
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Meshach Taylor received an Emmy Award for his role as Jim in the WTTW production of Huckleberry Finn and hosted the Chicago television show Black Life.
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In 1998, Meshach Taylor made his Broadway debut as Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, where he starred alongside Toni Braxton.
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In 1977, Meshach Taylor moved to Los Angeles, where he crafted a gallery of memorable characters in film and on television, including his Emmy-nominated turn in the CBS sitcom Designing Women.
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Meshach Taylor played Anthony Bouvier, the deliveryman at the fictitious Sugarbaker interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Meshach Taylor was a regular panelist on the 2000 revival of the television game show To Tell the Truth.
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Meshach Taylor had been friends with actor Joe Mantegna since they appeared together in 1969 in the musical Hair.
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Meshach Taylor guest-starred in 2012 on Criminal Minds' eighth season in the episode "The Fallen", opposite Mantegna as Harrison Scott, Rossi's former Marine sergeant with whom he served in Vietnam.
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Meshach Taylor appeared in such feature films as Mannequin, Mannequin Two: On the Move, and Damien: Omen II.
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Meshach Taylor had four children, three with Bianca and one from a previous marriage.
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Meshach Taylor's children are daughters Tamar, Esme and Yasmine and son Tariq; he had four grandchildren.
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Meshach Taylor died of colorectal cancer on June 28,2014, at his home in Altadena, California.
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Meshach Taylor is survived by his wife, his four children, his mother Hertha Ward Taylor, two siblings, and four grandchildren.