Rod Taylor  

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Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 films, including The Time Machine (1960), The Birds (1963), and One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961).

Filmography

Feature films

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• King of the Coral Sea (1954) as Jack Janiero (film debut)
• Long John Silver (1954) as Israel Hands
• The Virgin Queen (1955) as Cpl. Gwilym (uncredited)
• Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) as John Brodie Evans
• Top Gun (1955) as Lem Sutter
• World Without End (1956) as Herbert Ellis
• The Catered Affair (1956) as Ralph Halloran
• Giant (1956) as Sir David Karfrey
• The Rack (1956) as Al (uncredited)
• Raintree County (1957) as Garwood B. Jones
• Step Down to Terror (1958) as Mike Randall
• Separate Tables (1958) as Charles
• Ask Any Girl (1959) as Ross Tayford
• The Time Machine (1960) as H. George Wells
• Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960) as Pirro
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) as Pongo (voice)
• Seven Seas to Calais (1962) as Sir Francis Drake
• The Birds (1963) as Mitch Brenner
• The V.I.P.s (1963) as Les Mangrum
• A Gathering of Eagles (1963) as Col. Hollis Farr
• Sunday in New York (1963) as Mike MItchell
• Fate Is the Hunter (1964) as Capt. Jack Savage
• 36 Hours (1965) as Maj. Walter Gerber
• Young Cassidy (1965) as John Cassidy
• The Liquidator (1965) as Boysie Oakes
• Do Not Disturb (1965) as Mike Harper
• The Glass Bottom Boat (1966) as Bruce Templeton
• Hotel (1967) as Peter McDermott
• Chuka (1967) as Chuka
• Dark of the Sun (1968) as Capt. Bruce Curry
• Nobody Runs Forever (1968) (a.k.a. The High Commissioner) as Scobie Malone
• The Hell with Heroes (1968) as Brynie MacKay
• Zabriskie Point (1970) as Lee Allen
• Darker than Amber (1970) as Travis McGee
• The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970) as Peter Reaney
• Powderkeg (1971) (TV) as Hank Brackett
• Family Flight (1972) (TV) as Jason Carlyle
• The Train Robbers (1973) as Grady
• Gli eroi (1973) (a.k.a. The Heroes) as Lieutenant Bob Robson
• Trader Horn (1973) as Trader Horn
• The Deadly Trackers (1973) as Frank Brand
• Hell River (1974) (a.k.a. Partizani) as Marko
• Blondie (1976) as Christopher Tauling
• A Matter of Wife... And Death (1976) (TV) as Shamus McCoy
• The Oregon Trail (1976) (TV) as Evan Thorpe
• Gulliver's Travels (1977) as Reldresal / King of Blefuscu (voice, uncredited)
• The Picture Show Man (1977) as Palmer
• The Treasure Seekers (1979) as Marian Casey
• Cry of the Innocent (1980) (TV) as Steve Donegin
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981) (TV) as 'Black Jack' Bouvier
• A Time to Die (1982) as Jack Bailey
• On the Run (1983) as Mr. Payatta
• Terror in the Aisles (1984) as Himself
• Marbella, un golpe de cinco estrellas (1985) as Commander
• Mask of Murder (1985) as Supt. Bob McLaine
• Half Nelson (1985) (TV)
• Danielle Steel's 'Palomino' (1991) (TV) as Bill King
• Grass Roots (1992) (TV) as Gen. Willoughby
• Open Season (1995) - Billy Patrick
• Point of Betrayal (1995) as Ted Kitteridge
• Welcome to Woop Woop (1998) as Daddy-O
• Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998) (TV) as General Sorenson
• Kaw (2007) (TV) as Doc
• Inglourious Basterds (2009) as Winston Churchill (final film role)

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Documentaries

• Inland with Sturt (1951) as George Mcleady
• The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985)
• Time Machine: The Journey Back (1993)
• All About the Birds (2000)
• Not Quite Hollywood (2008)

Television

As a regular

Taylor had several lead roles in television, from the early 1960s to the early first decade of the 21st century. Among his television shows as a regular are:

• 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)

Guest appearances

• Studio 57 (1955) – "The Last Day on Earth", "The Black Sheep's Daughter"
• Lux Video Theatre (1955) – "Dark Tribute", "The Browning Version"
• Cheyenne (1955) – "The Argonauts"
• Suspicion (1957) – "The Story of Marjorie Reardon"
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1958) – "A Thing to Fight For"
• Studio One (1958) – "Image of Fear"
• Lux Playhouse (1958) – "The Best House in the Valley"
• Playhouse 90 (1958–59) – "Verdict of Three", "The Great Gatsby", "The Long March", "The Raider", "Misalliance"
• The Twilight Zone (1959) – "And When the Sky Was Opened"
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1960) – "Picture of Sal"
• Goodyear Theatre (1960) – "Capital Gains"
• General Electric Theater (1960) – "Early to Die", "The Young Years"
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1960) – "Thunder in the Night"
• Bus Stop (1961) – "Portrait of a Hero"
• The DuPont Show of the Week (1962) – "The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon"
• Tales of the Unexpected (TV series) (1980) – "The Hitch-Hiker"
• Walker, Texas Ranger (1996) – "Redemption"
• Murder, She Wrote (1995)
• Falcon Crest (1988–1990) as Frank Agretti

Theatre credits

• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Independent, 1950)
• Home of the Brave by Arthur Laurents (Independent, 1950)
• Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw (John Alden Company, 1951)
• Twins by Plautus (Mercury, 1952)
• The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (Mercury, 1952)
• The Witch by John Masefield (Mercury, 1952)
• They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard (Mercury, 1952)
• The Happy Time by Samuel A. Taylor (Mercury, 1953)