Biography
American screenwriter Eric Taylor was active in Hollywood from 1937 to 1958. At Universal, Taylor co-scripted such melodramas as
Black Friday (1940),
Son of Dracula (1943), and
Phantom of the Opera (1943). At Columbia, he worked on six entries in the Ellery Queen series and also toiled away on the studio's
Crime Doctor and
Whistler films. And at RKO Radio, Eric Taylor penned the first two installments in the Dick Tracy series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide