Biography
Errol Taggart (also credited as William Errol Taggart) was a Canadian film director and editor who worked in Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1930s. Born on 15 July 1895 in Ottawa, Ontario, he began as a script clerk in 1918 and progressed to film editor, production manager and assistant director.
He edited several films directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney, including The Road to Mandalay (1926), The Blackbird (1926), The Show (1927) and The Unknown (1927, co-edited with Harry Reynolds). He also served as uncredited assistant director on Browning's Freaks (1932).
Taggart directed seven features in the mid-1930s, among them Women Are Trouble (1936), Sinner Take All (1936), Song of the City (1937), The Women Men Marry (1937) and Strange Faces (1938). He died on 30 August 1940 in Los Angeles, California.
