Profile
Rod Taylor
Actor
Male
Born
Jan 11, 1930
Age
83
Hometown
Lidcombe, New Sou...
Other Names
Taylor, Rodney Sturt
Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor is an Australian actor of film and television. He has appeared in over 50 films, and is well known for his roles in the science fiction film The Time Machine (1960), and in the Alfred Hitchcock horror movie The Birds (1963).
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Romance
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Mary HilemMarried 1963
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Theona BryantDated 1956
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Olivia JohnsonDated 1951 - 1952
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Tony Lee Moral: Happy Birthday: Hitchcock's The Birds Turns 50Huffington Post - Mar 27, 2013
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Kim Morgan: For Valentine's Day: Celebrate With Six Disastrous DatesHuffington Post - Feb 13, 2013
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2012 Road Repairs: Street Work Scheduled For The Week Of June 4Cleveland Heights Patch - Jun 06, 2012
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Boston Saturday Football League FixturesBoston Standard - May 12, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1930
Birth
Taylor was Born on 11 January 1930 in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, the only child of William Sturt Taylor, a steel construction contractor and commercial artist, and the former Mona Thompson, a writer of more than a hundred short stories and children's books.
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TWENTIES
1951
21 Years Old
In 1951 he took part in a re-enactment of Charles Sturt's voyage down the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers, playing Sturt's offsider, George Macleay.
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1954
24 Years Old
Following these two films, Taylor was awarded the 1954 Rola Show Australian Radio Actor of the Year Award, which included a ticket to London via Los Angeles; but Taylor never made it to London.
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In 1955, he guest-starred in the third episode ("The Argonauts") of the first hour-long western television series, Cheyenne, an ABC program starring Clint Walker.
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THIRTIES
1960
30 Years Old
In the 1960–61 television season, Taylor starred as foreign correspondent Glenn Evans in the ABC dramatic series Hong Kong.
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1962
32 Years Old
In 1962, he starred in an episode of The DuPont Show of the Week (NBC) ("The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon"), an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way.
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FORTIES
1970
40 Years Old
The film was directed by Robert Clouse, who had also directed Taylor in the 1970 film, Darker than Amber.
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FIFTIES
1988
58 Years Old
From 1988 to 1990, Taylor appeared in the CBS drama series Falcon Crest as Frank Agretti, playing opposite Jane Wyman.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1997
67 Years Old
In 1997, he played the foul-mouthed redneck "Daddy-O" in the black comedy Welcome to Woop Woop.
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