Rod Taylor
Gender: Male
Born: 11th January 1930 (currently 82 years old)
TV programs: The Oregon Trail, Hong Kong, Bearcats, Masquerade, Outlaws, Falcon Crest, The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon
Movies: 36 Hours, A Gathering of Eagles, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Birds, The Glass Bottom Boat, The Time Machine, Welcome to Woop Woop, Time Machine: The Journey Back, Sunday in New York, Hotel, The Train Robbers, Family Flight, KAW, Fate Is the Hunter, The Catered Affair, The V.I.P.s, World Without End, A Matter of Wife... And Death, Dark of the Sun, The Liquidator, Long John Silver, Inglourious Basterds, Raintree County, Darker than Amber, Nobody Runs Forever, Terror in the Aisles, Young Cassidy, The Hell with Heroes, Separate Tables, Time to Die, Giant, Ask Any Girl, Do Not Disturb, Chuka, The Virgin Queen, Zabriskie Point, Gulliver's Travels, The Deadly Trackers, The Man Who Had Power Over Women, Seven Seas to Calais, The Treasure Seekers, Colossus and the Amazon Queen, King of the Coral Sea, Inland with Sturt, Trader Horn, Step Down to Terror, Marbella, Mask of Murder, On the Run, Hell River, The Picture Show Man, Point of Betrayal, Danielle Steel's 'Palomino'
Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor (born 11 January 1930) 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).
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. His middle name comes from his great-great grand uncle, Captain Charles Sturt, a British explorer of the Australian Outback in the 19th century.
Taylor attended Parramatta High School and later studied at the East Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. For a time he worked as a commercial artist, but decided to become an actor after seeing Laurence Olivier in an Old Vic touring production in Australia.
Taylor acquired extensive radio and stage experience in Australia where his radio work included a period on Blue Hills and a role as Tarzan. Earlier in his career he had to support himself by working at Sydney's Mark Foys department store designing and
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