R.I.P. Delores Taylor

[Floyd R. Turbo]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Delores Taylor, who co-starred with her husband Tom Laughlin in his productions of the Billy Jack series of films, has died in Southern California, her daughter said Monday. She was 85.

Teresa Laughlin told The Associated Press that Taylor died March 23 of natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Home near Los Angeles. She said her mother had suffered from dementia.

Taylor was born in 1932 in Winner, South Dakota. She grew up near the Rosebud Indian Reservation, an experience which she drew from when creating the namesake character of the Billy Jack films in the 1970s.

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[BarbaRosa]

1. Ah, that's sad, I always enjoyed her gentle beauty,

both inner beauty and outer beauty.

[Bradshaw3]

2. Well said

I think the gentleness you saw on film was more her than acting. I live in a city where many scenes of Billy Jack were shot, and have an affection for the film because - even though it's not great and can be smarmy - it was the one film where instead of us hippies getting beaten, the rednecks got their asses whipped.