Rod Taylor
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Rod Taylor can refer to the reggae artist or the country artist: 1. Rod Taylor has a well-deserved reputation as one of the most crucial roots reggae singers to emerge in the golden years of the 1970s. He was born in 1957 and grew up in the Trenchtown (Rema) ghetto of the capital Kingston. Like many of his peers, he began singing at a young age and by the early 70s he had formed a harmony trio called The Aliens, alongside fellow roots hero Barry Brown and a Chinese youth called Johnnie Lee. <
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
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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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