Rod Taylor

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-01-11 (85 years old)

Deathday

2015-01-07

Place of Birth

Sydney - New South Wales - Australia

Rod Taylor

Biography

Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor (born 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.

Acting

1963

The Birds

as Mitch Brenner

1960

The Time Machine

as H. George Wells

1956

Giant

as Sir David Karfrey

1970

Zabriskie Point

as Lee Allen

1980

Cry of the Innocent

as Steve Donegin

1998

1955

The Virgin Queen

as Cpl. Gwilym

1961

1968

1966

The Glass Bottom Boat

as Bruce Templeton

1965

The Liquidator

as Brian Ian "Boysie" Oakes

1973

1973

1958

The Great Gatsby

as Nick Carraway

1958

Separate Tables

as Charles

1963

The V.I.P.s

as Les Mangrum

1964

36 Hours

as Major Walter Gerber

1963

Sunday in New York

as Mike Mitchell

1965

Do Not Disturb

as Mike Harper

2009

Inglourious Basterds

as Winston Churchill

1967

Chuka

as Chuka

1957

Raintree County

as Garwood B. Jones

1970

Darker Than Amber

as Travis McGee

1968

Nobody Runs Forever

as Scobie Malone

1955

Hell on Frisco Bay

as John Brodie Evans (as Rodney Taylor)

1958

Step Down to Terror

as Mike Randall

1974

Hell River

as Marko

1956

World Without End

as Herbert Ellis

1959

Ask Any Girl

as Ross Taford

1967

Hotel

as Peter McDermott

1964

Fate Is the Hunter

as Captain Jack Savage

1956

The Catered Affair

as Ralph Halloran

1963

A Gathering of Eagles

as Col. Hollis Farr

1965

Young Cassidy

as John Cassidy

1996

1973

The Deadly Trackers

as Frank Brand

1962

Seven Seas to Calais

as Sir Francis Drake

1981

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

as 'Black Jack' Bouvier

1991

Palomino

as Bill King

1972

Family Flight

as Jason Carlyle

1955

Top Gun

as Lem Sutter

1983

On the Run

as Mr. Payatta

1985

Marbella

as Commander W.P. Anderson

1976

Vortex

as Christopher Tauling

1992

Grass Roots

as Gen. Willoughby

1973

The Heroes

as Lieutenant Bob Robson

1968

The Hell with Heroes

as Brynie MacKay

1973

Trader Horn

as Trader Horn

1982

A Time to Die

as Jack Bailey

1954

King of the Coral Sea

as Jack Janiero

1995

The Point of Betrayal

as Ted Kitteridge

2007

Kaw

as Doc

1954

Long John Silver

as Israel Hands

1951

Inland with Sturt

as George McLeay

1985

Mask of Murder

as Supt. Bob McLaine

1971

Powderkeg

as Hank Brackett

1981

Hellinger's Law

as Clint Tolliver

1993

Time Machine: The Journey Back

as Himself / Narrator / H.G. Welles

1979

Jamaican Gold

as Marian Casey

1982

Disney's Halloween Treat

as Pongo (voice) (archive footage)

1995

Open Season

as Billy Patrick

Production

1967

Chuka

as Producer

1979

Jamaican Gold

as Screenplay

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