American television director (1932–2008) who was one of the most frequently used directors of the third season of the original Star Trek, with five episodes to his name.
Jud Taylor was an American actor turned director who joined the original Star Trek for its third and final season and directed five episodes, more than almost anyone else that year.
His episodes were The Paradise Syndrome, in which an amnesiac Kirk lives among a transplanted Native American people; Wink of an Eye; Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, with Frank Gorshin as the half-black, half-white Bele; The Mark of Gideon; and The Cloud Minders, set in the floating city of Stratos.
Taylor worked under the tight budgets and schedules of that season. He afterwards became a prolific director of television films, many of them dramatisations of real events.