Days' Josh Taylor is one of the rare actors to return in a major role after having played a well-recognized featured player on the same soap. Like both characters, Taylor had his
start in a small, rural town. 

Josh Taylor received his Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth University and then applied to maintaining that "no corporate guy" image, Taylor played blue-collar Chris Kositchek until 1981, then came back in the same role from mid-1982 to 1987. He won the title of Best Newcomer of the Year awarded by a soap magazine and later garnered several other awards and nominations.  His favorite, Taylor admits, was Afternoon TV's kudo for "Sexiest Man of the Year." 

During his first Days' run, Taylor was one of the first actors to simultaneously work on daytime and nighttime television. For a year and half, he worked double duty as Kositchek on Days and as Valerie Harper's pilot husband, Mike Hogan, in "Valerie," a show which was later called "Valerie's Family" after Harper left the show and Sandy Duncan came in as Taylor's on-screen sister. 

Taylor's prime time TV credits also include a two-year recurrent role as Jack McKay on  "Beverly Hills 90210," as well as appearances in "Riker," "Diagnosis Murder," "Walker, Texas Ranger," "Murder, She Wrote," "Matlock," "L.A. Law," "Hotel," "Today's FBI" and "Semi-Tough."   His movies of the week include starring roles in "Girls Fight Back," "A Secret Among Friends," "Woman on the Ledge," "Semester at Sea," "Happily Ever After" and "Charlie Cobb."

Taylor is divorced and has one grown up daughter, Tristen. He owns a house in Burbank
but tore down the garage to make room for his 1200 sq. ft. gym where he has "no excuse not to work out every day because it stares me in the face," he says with a laugh. In addition to weight training and aerobics, Taylor also practices his martial arts skills. His favorite past time, however, is watching football. "If I hadn't become an actor," Taylor says, "I would have loved to have been a coach."