Taylor Negron, Comedian & Actor, Dead At 57 After Long Battle With Cancer

by The Deadline Team
Sources are confirming that comedian Taylor Negron has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 57. 

Chuck Negron, Taylor’s cousin, of the ’70s band Three Dog Night, released an online video with the sad news today saying, “I want to inform you that my cousin Taylor Negron has just passed away. His mother, his brother Alex and my brother’s wife Renee were all there with him. May he rest in peace.”

Negron was born in Glendale, CA on August 1, 1957, the son of Lucy (née Rosario) and Conrad Negron, Sr., a former mayor of Indian Wells, CA.  He studied with Lee Strasberg and even had a private seminar with Lucille Ball.

He started stand-up when he was in high school, getting a spot at the Comedy Store and began cutting his as an extra in movies. He made his full film acting debut in 1982’s soap satire Young Doctors in Love  as a love-struck, pill-popping, dancing intern. 

He was also reknowned for playing Mr. Pizza Guy in Fasts Times at Ridgemont High and Rodney Dangerfield’s son-in-law in Easy Money.  In a KCET interview, Negron said, “I became
the alternative everyman in movies.”

Of late, he was fixture in the Los Angeles comedy scene, appearing in Melinda Hill’s web series Romantic Encounters