Taylor portrayed Horatio Frisby on the comedy series Johnny Jupiter. He was also a regular performer on Montgomery's Summer Stock, which was a summer replacement for Robert Montgomery Presents from 1953 through 1956.

He was also a frequent guest on CBS's Perry Mason legal drama, having appeared eight times, including murderer Louis Boles in the premiere episode, "The Case of the Restless Redhead" in 1957. In 1959 he played the title role, murder victim Bishop Arthur Mallory, in "The Case of the Stuttering Bishop." In 1961 he played defendant Ralph Duncan in "The Case of the Fickle Fortune." In 1963 he again played the murder victim and title character; this time as Martin Weston in "The Case of the Witless Witness."

In 1958, Taylor appeared in Steve McQueen's CBS western series, Wanted: Dead or Alive as a Doctor shot to death in the back by the brother (played by Nick Adams) of an outlaw (portrayed by Michael Landon), whom he had treated. In a later episode, he appeared as a Doctor whose son, played by Mark Rydell, is a thief whom Josh has brought in, only to lose the bounty because the Doctor paid someone else to take the blame. He also played Olie Ridgers in the Gunsmoke episode "Claustrophobia" (Season 3, Episode 20).

Taylor guest starred as Jeremy Tolliver in the title role in the 1959 episode "The Trouble with Tolliver" of the ABC western drama, The Man from Blackhawk, starring Robert Rockwell as a roving insurance investigator. Robert Bray also appeared in this episode.

Taylor appeared three times in the 1960–1961 season in the syndicated series COronado 9 starring Rod Cameron. He guest starred on ABC's The Real McCoys, with Walter Brennan, and in 1961, he played a Veterinarian in another ABC sitcom, The Hathaways, starring Peggy Cass, Jack Weston, and the Marquis Chimps. He guest starred as financier Asbury Harpending in the 1965 episode "Raid on the San Francisco Mint" on Death Valley Days, with series host Ronald W. Reagan cast as william Chapman Ralston, the founder of the Bank of California.

Taylor was cast as bank President Houghton in the 1961 episode "The Proxy" on another ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams, with whom Taylor had worked three years earlier in Wanted Dead or Alive."

In 1962 he appeared in one episode as the head college librarian opposite Gertrude Berg in her short-lived sitcom "Mrs. G. Goes to College."

In 1966 and 1968, Taylor made guest appearances on Petticoat Junction. In 1966 he played Mr. Foley, episode: "Better Never Than Late", and in 1968 he played Mr. Clayton, episode: "Uncle Joe Runs the Hotel".

Taylor died in April 1983 at the age of seventy-three.