Rod Taylor

Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor of movie and television. He appeared in over 50 movies, 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.

Rod Taylor
Taylor in The V.I.P.s, (1963)
Born	Rodney Sturt Taylor (1930-01-11)11 January 1930 Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia
Died	7 January 2015(2015-01-07) (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Heart attack
Education	Parramatta High School
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1951–2015
Spouse(s)	Peggy Williams ​ (m. 1951⁠–⁠1954)​ Mary Hilem ​ (m. 1963⁠–⁠1969)​ Carol Kikumura ​ (m. 1980⁠–⁠2015)​ (his death)
Children	Felicia Taylor (born 1964)

Taylor suffered a heart attack and died on 7 January 2015 in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 84.

Filmography

• King of the Coral Sea (1953) (film debut)
• Long John Silver (1954)
• Top Gun (1955)
• World Without End (1956)
• The Catered Affair (1956)
• Giant (1956)
• Raintree County (1957)
• Separate Tables (1958)
• Ask Any Girl (1959)
• The Time Machine (1960)
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) (voice-Pongo)
• The Birds (1963)
• A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
• The V.I.P.s (1963)
• Sunday in New York (1963)
• Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
• 36 Hours (1965)
• Young Cassidy (1965)
• The Liquidator (1965)
• Do Not Disturb (1965)
• The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
• Hotel (1967)

• Chuka (1967)
• Dark of the Sun (a.k.a. The Mercenaries) (1968)
• The High Commissioner (a.k.a. Nobody Runs Forever) (1968)
• Zabriskie Point (1970)
• Darker Than Amber (1970), as Travis McGee
• Powderkeg (1971) (TV)
• Family Flight (1972) (TV)
• The Train Robbers (1973)
• Trader Horn (1973)
• The Deadly Trackers (1973)
• A Matter of Wife... And Death (1976)
• The Oregon Trail (1976) (TV)
• The Picture Show Man (1977)
• Cry of the Innocent (1980)
• A Time to Die (1982)
• Terror in the Aisles (1984)
• Time Machine: The Journey Back (1993) (documentary)
• Point of Betrayal (1995)
• Welcome to Woop Woop (1998)
• The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998) (TV)
• KAW (2007) (TV)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)

TV shows

Taylor has had several lead roles in television, from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Among his TV shows are:

• The Twilight Zone (1959, CBS)
• Hong Kong with co-star Lloyd Bochner (1960, ABC)
• Bearcats! (1971, CBS)
• The Oregon Trail as Evan Thorpe, a widower taking his three children from their Illinois farm to the Pacific Northwest by way of the Oregon Trail (1977, NBC)
• Masquerade (1983)
• Outlaws (1986)

Other websites

• Rod Taylor on IMDb