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John R Taylor is a graduate of Design at Ryerson University, Toronto, 1961. He spent many years in the visual art world: Founding Director of the Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery; Assistant to the Director, Art Gallery of Ontario; Curator of the Collection - Ontario College of Art; Director of the Art Gallery of Cobourg; Director of the Penticton Art Gallery.

Actor: In the 1980's John began his association with the film world - in the Simon Fraser University student film "One Step, Two Step Waltz". Represented for over 25 years by Murray Gibson at Characters (and latterly RED Management), John has appeared in many Lead, Supporting and Principal roles in such productions as X-Files, The Pledge, Smokin' Aces, Watchmen, Supernatural, The Killing, Stargate and more. He has worked opposite such notables as Robert DeNiro, Ellen Barkin, Henry Winkler, Diane Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard and Jack Nicholson and has worked with such Directors as Ken Russel, Zack Snyder, Zack Lipofsky, Larry Kent and Sean Penn.

John has twice been nominated for Best Actor Leo's - for lead roles in "The Grey Matter" in 2010 and "Backward Fall" in 2013. He has received two "Best Performance by a Male Actor" awards for his role in "Backward Fall": Vancouver Short Film Festival - 2013 and Vancouver Island Short Film Festival - 2014.

Production Designer: As a Production Designer John's credits include over 30 indie shorts, two features - "Dark Arc" and "Deep Evil" (Art Director) and three television series for the Comedy Network: "Skullduggery", "Suckerpunch" and "Rockpoint PD". He won a Nickel award for the feature "Dark Arc" and a Leo for the short indie film "Evirati".

Writer/Director In 2012, John wrote and directed his first short film - "Says Who?". Nominated for a screenwriting Leo, the film was screened at Festivals in BC, Pennsylvania and Italy - winning the Best Director Award, (Foreign Film Division) at the Shortini International Film Festival in Augusta, Italy in 2013

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