RIP Joyce Taylor

 Forever Missed 

Joyce Taylor Hinnant, 1937–2024 (87)

Fort Collins, Colorado

 

Born Joyce Crowder, actress in the Golden Age of Hollywood as Joyce Taylor, and singer as Joyce Bradley. Taylor sang in amateur shows at age 10 and turned professional at age 15, signing with Mercury Records (billed as Joyce Bradley). When she was 16, she was singing at Chez Paree nightclub in Chicago and other similar venues.[3]

She was under contract to Howard Hughes-owned RKO Pictures in the 1950s, but he only allowed her to act in one movie (a small part in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt in 1956).[4] When her seven-year contract ended, she became a regular on the science-fiction adventure TV series Men into Space (1959–1960)[5] as well as acted in many other TV shows and several feature films

The records show she remarried, in 1972, to Richard Perry Hinnant (b. 1943). Her first marriage certificate indicates she was born in 1937, not 1932 as stated on IMDb. Both of them show up as living in Fort Collins, Colorado as of 2021. She goes by the name of Joyce Taylor Hinnant

TAYLOR, Joyce (Joyce Bernice Crowder)

Born: 9/14/1937, Taylorville, Illinois, U.S.A.

Died: 1/?/2024, Ft. Collins, Colorado, U.S.A.

 

Joyce Taylor’s westerns – actress:

Lawman (TV) – 1959 (Dora Mahan Steed)

The Rough Riders (TV) – 1959 (Jenny Kirby)

Shotgun Slade (TV) – 1959 (Val Preston)

Bat Masterson (TV) – 1960 (Jane Taylor)

Tales of Wells Fargo (TV) – 1960, 1962 (Rachel Whitman, Ann King)

Whispering Smith (TV) – 1961 (Edie Romack)

Bonanza – (TV) – 1962 (Morvath Terry)

Wagon Train (TV) – 1962 (Ruth Creech)