Meshach Taylor Biography

Meshach Taylor returned to Indianapolis where he began to work at a local radio station as a State House political correspondent. For two years he traveled with the national touring company. He joined the Organic Theatre group in Chicago where he met and worked with good friends Joe Mantegna and Dennis Franz. While there he also became part of Chicago's Goodman Theatre where his performance in Sizwe Banzo Is Dead won him the Joseph Jefferson Award. Taylor also won a Chicago area Emmy for his performance in the PBS production of Huckleberry Finn and he hosted his own talk show Black Life on the local NBC affiliate. Upon moving to Hollywood Taylor landed a role in the feature film Damien - Omen II. He also joined the Westwood Playhouse production of Sizwe Banzo Is Dead made guest appearances on Barney Miller Lou Grant The White Shadow and MAS*H and landed a regular role on the Buffalo Bill series co-starring Dabney Coleman and Geena Davis. Meshach Taylor is probably best known to audiences for his Emmy-nominated portrayal of Anthony Bouvier for seven seasons on CBS's Designing Women and then as Harry Anderson's college buddy and neighbor Sheldon Baylor on Dave's World.

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