Rod Taylor
Date of birth: 1930-01-11
Place of birth: Sydney - New South Wales - Australia
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Род Тейлор, Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor, Rodney Sturt Taylor, راد تیلور
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
The Birds
1963-03-28
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attac
The Time Machine
1960-05-25
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostil
Giant
1956-11-08
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful yo
Zabriskie Point
1970-03-26
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles de
Cry of the Innocent
1980-06-15
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their
Welcome to Woop Woop
1998-08-13
A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange t
The Virgin Queen
1955-07-22
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing fo
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
1961-01-25
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must f
Dark of the Sun
1968-02-08
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, batt
The Glass Bottom Boat
1966-06-09
Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biogra
The Liquidator
1965-11-01
Lighthearted spy drama about Boysie Oakes, who takes a nice job with the British Secret Service, enj
Wayne Train
1973-02-07
A short documentary on the making of THE TRAIN ROBBERS
The Train Robbers
1973-02-01
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she
The Picture Show Man
1977-05-05
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
The Great Gatsby
1958-06-26
Adaptation of the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald for "Playhouse 90." A Midwesterner becomes fasci
Separate Tables
1958-12-18
The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in t
The V.I.P.s
1963-09-01
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal tri
36 Hours
1964-11-26
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can
Sunday in New York
1963-11-13
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.
Do Not Disturb
1965-12-22
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon
Inglourious Basterds
2009-08-02
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste
Chuka
1967-07-23
A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.
Raintree County
1957-12-20
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted fr
Darker Than Amber
1970-08-14
Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry
Nobody Runs Forever
1968-08-22
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level
Hell on Frisco Bay
1955-12-31
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeer
Step Down to Terror
1958-09-01
Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town
Hell River
1974-07-17
Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually culmin
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
1960-09-08
Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
World Without End
1956-03-25
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Cen
Ask Any Girl
1959-08-21
Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-d
Hotel
1967-01-19
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious y
Fate Is the Hunter
1964-10-16
An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and pe
US Against the World
1977-09-07
This NBC Special from 1977 pitted celebrities from the worlds of film and TV in the United States ag
The Catered Affair
1956-06-14
An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.
A Gathering of Eagles
1963-06-21
A B-52 commander must prepare his men to pass a grueling inspection.
Young Cassidy
1965-02-25
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restr
All About 'The Birds'
2000-05-28
A wonderfully informative 80-minute documentary combining current interviews with archival materials
The Deadly Trackers
1973-12-21
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their pa
The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
1996-09-20
The time is the 21st century, after the fall of the Galactic Republic. Technology is at a standstill
Seven Seas to Calais
1962-12-22
Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I.
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
1981-10-14
Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her
Palomino
1991-10-21
After the break up of her marriage, photographer Samantha Taylor retreats to the sanctuary of friend
Family Flight
1972-10-25
A bitterly divided family is forced to cooperate when their holiday plane crash-lands in the Califor
Top Gun
1955-12-01
A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with h
On the Run
1983-09-02
1) A man becomes a target after witnessing an assassination. 2) Mr. Payatta is a coldhearted profes
Marbella
1985-10-13
Comedy thriller directed by Miguel Hermoso.
Vortex
1976-01-14
Rod Taylor plays a United Nations bio-warfare disarmament expert whose lonely wife (Catherine Jourda
Grass Roots
1992-02-24
This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an
The Heroes
1973-02-23
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team
The Man Who Had Power Over Women
1970-08-12
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend
The Hell with Heroes
1968-08-28
In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggle
Trader Horn
1973-06-01
During the First World War a Hunter and trader in Africa joins forces with a couple looking for a so
A Time to Die
1982-03-26
A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targe
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
1986-07-31
Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a s
King of the Coral Sea
1954-08-12
A body is found floating in the Torres Strait and pearler Ted King is asked to investigate. He disco
The Point of Betrayal
1995-01-01
Kaw
2007-04-07
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that ea
Long John Silver
1954-12-16
In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and
Half Nelson
1985-03-24
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to
A Matter of Wife... and Death
1975-04-10
A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private
Inland with Sturt
1951-01-23
Inland with Sturt is a 1951 documentary from Film Australia consisting of the 1950-51 re-enactment o
Mask of Murder
1985-10-15
In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have n
Powderkeg
1971-04-16
A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and
Hellinger's Law
1981-03-10
A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (act
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017-04-17
Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.
Time Machine: The Journey Back
1993-08-25
Documentary/Sequel to 1960 adaptation of "The Time Machine"
Jamaican Gold
1979-12-31
A chance meeting leads two former college friends into a search for sunken treasure, a search which
Every Girl's Dream
1966-01-01
Nancy Bernard, the 1966 Maid of Cotton, is shown walking through various sets and sound stages at th
Not Quite Hollywood
2008-08-28
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
1982-09-17
Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana
Disney's Halloween Treat
1982-10-30
Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp,"
Open Season
1995-01-14
When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenl
Lionpower from MGM
1967-01-01
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's rel
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
2022-06-14
Documentary on the History of Science Fiction Movies from The Day the Earth Stood Still onward.