Henry Peavey (March 3, 1882 [1] – December 27, 1931) was the cook and valet of Hollywood silent film director William Desmond Taylor.

Prior to working for William Desmond Taylor, Peavey was employed by the wife of director Christy Cabanne.

[2] Peavey was hired by Taylor after he dismissed his previous butler, Edward F. Sands, for forging his signature on checks.

Some Hearst reporters suspected that Peavey was withholding information, so they kidnapped him a few weeks after the crime and attempted to scare him into a confession.

[5] In a 1930 interview, Peavey expressed the (widely unsupported) opinion that Mabel Normand had been the person who killed Taylor.