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Designing Women actor Meshach Taylor--RIP Designing Women Star Meshach Taylor Terminally Ill, Surrounded By Family
Posted on June 27th, 2014 at 10:56 pm Meshach Taylor, who is best known as Anthony Bouvier on Designing Women, is terminally ill and surrounded by family, RumorFix is reporting exclusively. His family released this statement late Friday: “It is with love and gratitude that we sorrowfully announce that our darling, amazingly brilliant and dynamic, Meshach, the incredible father, husband, son and friend has begun his grand transition. Our friends who know and love us, please offer your prayers for his peace and blazing light as he ascends to the heavens. Those who need to call the family please do. Those who desire to post memories, we are open and graciously accepting all gestures of peace. Love, the Taylor Family Tariq Taylor Yasmine Taylor Tamar Lashae Taylor Esme Taylor” A family spokesperson tells RumorFix that Meshach’s 100-year-old mother is even at his bedside. Meshach Taylor, who played a lovable ex-convict surrounded by boisterous Southern belles on the sitcom "Designing Women" and appeared in numerous other TV and film roles, died of cancer at age 67, his agent said Sunday. Taylor died Saturday at his home near Los Angeles, agent Dede Binder said. Taylor got an Emmy nod for his portrayal of Anthony Bouvier on "Designing Women" from 1986 to 1993. Then he costarred for four seasons on another successful comedy, "Dave's World," as the best friend of a newspaper humor columnist played by the series' star, Harry Anderson. Other series included the cult favorite "Buffalo Bill" and the popular Nickelodeon comedy "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide." Taylor's movie roles included a flamboyant window dresser in the 1987 comedy-romance "Mannequin" as well as "Damien: Omen II." He guested on many series including "Hannah Montana," ''The Unit," ''Hill Street Blues," ''Barney Miller," ''Lou Grant," ''The Drew Carey Show," and, in an episode that aired in January, "Criminal Minds," which stars Joe Montegna, with whom Taylor performed early in his career as a fellow member of Chicago's Organic Theater Company. Taylor also had been a member of that city's Goodman Theatre. The Boston-born Taylor started acting in community shows in New Orleans, where his father was dean of students at Dillard University. He continued doing roles in Indianapolis after his father moved to Indiana University as dean of the college of arts and sciences. [b][Edited 6/29/14 12:37pm] | |
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He died. The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything. |
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Wow. That was a great show. Prayers to his family. | |
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Does anyone know why there are reports saying that he's terminally ill but he's not dead yet?
http://theurbandaily.com/2014/06/28/actor-meshach-taylor-dead-at-67/ Trolls be gone! | |
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Well I guess urbandaily jumped the gun and retracted or Meshach had a lil talk with jesus. The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything. |
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awww ..sad | |
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his family is accepting condolences on his facebook page...so i'm guessing his transition is merely a formality at this point. i was with a coworker who watched her mother die in two days, although it was really just a body lying there | |
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I looked around on CNN and other sites and didn't see anything, then I found that Urban Daily story via Google. Apparently, the story was posted about an hour ago with the upate. Trolls be gone! | |
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wow | |
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I used to love watching "Designing Women". Curious to know how the cast has to say about his passing. | |
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I have seen nothing about this on the news and it pisses me off. This should have made major news. I loved him, he was great on that show and in different roles,  I'm sad | |
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Uh... I just checked his Wikepedia page, it doesn't say he's died... | |
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RIP [Edited 7/3/14 13:26pm] | |
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R.I.P MeshAch Taylor...  will ALWAYS think of  like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. |
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RIP remember him from the movies. Never watched the TV shows he was on. I always thought he was gay, but he wasn't. Spouse: Bianca Ferguson (m. 1983), Sandra Taylor (m. 1969–1980) Children: Yasmine Taylor, Esme Taylor, Tariq Taylor, Tamar Taylor
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I remember he (or maybe Arsenio) once joked about how they looked alike. RIP to Meshach Trolls be gone! | |
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http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=875292 | |
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That snap on the left is from "Mannequin", one of my all time favourite movies - this is like a part of my childhoods gone
RIP. | |
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R.I.P
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Yeah that's where I know him from too. I never watched Designing Women, but I knew about him being on there. Just Music-No Categories-Enjoy It! |
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R.I.P. Meshach MJ L.O.V.E: https://www.facebook.com/...689&type=2 / YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/us...nderSilent | |
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The news on his death has finally went mainstream. Media outlets such as The New York Times and CNN has reported it. | |
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They were probably waiting on confirmation since that one report that first circulated Saturday was later updated to say at that point that he hadn't died. Trolls be gone! | |
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That's possible. | |
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Uh... I just checked his Wikepedia page, it doesn't say he's died... | |
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scratch that above- that's an old response that didn't go.. I hate my Org account... anyway, what I wrote over that was----- Does anyone know what he died of? | |
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He had colon rectal cancer.... [Edited 7/3/14 7:51am] will ALWAYS think of like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. |
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