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Rod Taylor
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Australian actor (1930-2015)
Film & TV
Sydney - New South Wales - Australia
Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor (January 11, 1930 – January 7, 2015) was an Australian-born American actor of film and television. He appeared in over 50 films, including leading roles in The Time Machine, Seven Seas to Calais, The Birds, Sunday in New York, Young Cassidy, Dark of the Sun, The Liquidator, and The Train Robbers.
Known for
- Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies — Self - (archive footage)2022
- Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches — Self2017
- Inglourious Basterds — Winston Churchill2009
- Not Quite Hollywood — Self2008
- Kaw — Doc2007
- Legends — Mike Harper (archive footage) (uncredited)2006
- All About 'The Birds' — Self2000
- Welcome to Woop Woop — Daddy-O1998
- Death on the Oregon Trail1998
- The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy — General Sorenson1996
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- Rodney Sturt Taylor , ( 1930-01-11 ) 11 January 1930, Lidcombe , New South Wales , Australia
- Died
- 7 January 2015 (2015-01-07) (aged 84), Beverly Hills , California , US
- Resting place
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park , Hollywood Hills , California , US
- Education
- University of New South Wales
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1950–2009
- Spouses
- Peggy Williams ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1954 ) Mary Hilem ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1963 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1969 ) Carol Kikumura ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 )
- Children
- Felicia Taylor
- Website
- rodtaylorblog .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Taylor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Sydney
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Australian English
- Official website
- www.rodtaylorsite.com
- Image
- Rod Taylor - 1963.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- date of death
- 2015-01-07
- Commons category
- Rod Taylor
- date of birth
- 1930-01-11
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- start of work period
- 1951-00-00
- end of work period
- 2009-00-00
- birth name
- Rodney Taylor
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Encyclopedic overview
Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including Young Cassidy (1965), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), The Train Robbers (1973), and A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975).
Taylor was born in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, to a father who was a steel construction contractor and commercial artist and a mother who was a children's author. He began taking art classes in high school, and continued in college. He decided to become an actor after seeing Laurence Olivier in an Old Vic touring production of Richard III.
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