Doug Taylor (June 14, 1938 – July 27, 2020) was a Canadian historian, professor, author, and connoisseur of movie theatres. In two books, and multiple online articles, Taylor wrote about Toronto's history of beautiful cinemas. He published a history of selected neighbourhoods in 2010, a book on Toronto's lost landmarks in 2018. ''

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'' magazine and ''

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'' both profiled Taylor when he published ''Toronto Theaters and the Golden Age of the Silver Screen''. The ''

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''s local historian,

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, used its publication as a jump-off for his own article on Toronto's cinema history. Taylor's parents immigrated to Canada from

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, when it was an independent country. Two of Taylor's books are memoirs of his experience growing up in an immigrant family. Liz Braun, the ''Toronto Sun''s long-term film reviewer, endorsed Taylor's books on Toronto cinemas. Taylor died on July 27, 2020, at the age of 82.

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