Robert Taylor
Gender: Male
Born: 5th August 1911
Died: 8th June 1969
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor, Death Valley Days, The Dick Powell Show, Ballykissangel
Movies: High Wall, Party Girl, Quo Vadis, The Last Hunt, Undercurrent, Bataan, Broadway Melody of 1936, All the Brothers Were Valiant, Camille, Song of Russia, Ivanhoe, Three Comrades, Broadway Melody of 1938, Knights of the Round Table, The Adventures of Quentin Durward, D-Day the Sixth of June, The Law and Jake Wade, Magnificent Obsession, Waterloo Bridge, Ride, Vaquero!, The Gorgeous Hussy, Valley of the Kings, Johnny Eager, A House Is Not a Home, Rogue Cop, Escape, Westward the Women, Remember?, The Bribe, Small Town Girl, A Yank at Oxford, Above and Beyond, West Point of the Air, Stand Up and Fight, When Ladies Meet, Personal Property, Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, Devil's Doorway, Miracle of the White Stallions, Billy the Kid, Stand by for Action, The Night Walker, Her Cardboard Lover, Ambush, This Is My Affair, Flight Command, The Hangman, The Crowd Roars, The Power and the Prize, Saddle the Wind, The House of the Seven Hawks, Johnny Tiger, Killers of Kilimanjaro, Many Rivers to Cross, Return of the Gunfighter, Conspirator, Lucky Night, Cattle King, A Wicked Woman, Murder in the Fleet, Society Doctor, His Brother's Wife, Times Square Lady, Lady of the Tropics
Robert Taylor (August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor who was one of the most popular celebrities of his time.
Born Spangler Arlington Brugh in Filley, Nebraska, he was the son of Ruth Adaline (née Stanhope) and Spangler Andrew Brugh, who was a farmer turned doctor. During his early life, the family moved several times, living in Muskogee, Oklahoma; Kirksville, Missouri; and Fremont, Nebraska. By September 1917, the Brughs had moved to Beatrice, Nebraska, where they remained for 16 years.
As a teenager, he was a track star and played the cello in his high school orchestra. Upon graduation, he enrolled at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska to study music.
While at Doane, he took cello lessons from Professor E. Gray, a man whom he admired and idolized. After Professor Gray announced he was accepting a new position at Pomona College in Los Angeles, Brugh moved to California and enrolled at Pomona. He joined the campus theatre group and was eventually spotted by an MGM talent scout in 1932 after production of Journey's End.
After Brugh signed a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $35 a week, his name was changed to Robert Taylor. He made his
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