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Theater-exprienced, ruggedly handsome performer who went to Hollywood in 1955 and hit a peak in the early 1960s as tough but endearing lead of adventure-thrillers, including George Pal's first-rate adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" (1960) and Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963).
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Filmography

The Hi-Lo Country - ( Special Thanks / 1998 / Released / )
Welcome to Woop Woop - ( Daddy-O / 1998 / Released / )
Giant - ( Sir David Karfrey / 1996 / Released / Kino Productions )
Open Season - ( Billy Patrick / 1996 / Released / )
Point of Betrayal - ( / 1996 / Released / Allegro )
Mask of Murder - ( / 1989 / Released / )
The Fantasy Film World of George Pal - ( Himself / 1986 / Released / )
On the Run - ( Payette / 1982 / Released / Cineworld )
A Time to Die - ( Bailey / 1979 / Released / )
Hell River - ( / 1978 / Released / )
The Picture Show Man - ( Palmer / 1976 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
Blondy - ( Al Mathieu Carriere Tauling / 1975 / Released / Lugo Films )
Partisani - ( Marko / 1974 / Released / Yugoslavija Film )
The Deadly Trackers - ( Brand / 1973 / Released / )
The Train Robbers - ( Grady / 1973 / Released / )
Trader Horn - ( Trader Horn / 1973 / Released / )
Gli Eroi - ( / 1972 / Released / Cineriz )
Darker Than Amber - ( / 1970 / Released / )
The Man Who Had Power Over Women - ( Peter Reaney / 1970 / Released / Avco Embassy Film )
Zabriskie Point - ( Lee Allen / 1970 / Released / )
The Hell With Heroes - ( Brynie MacKay / 1968 / Released / )
Chuka - ( Producer / 1967 / Released / Paramount Pictures )
Chuka - ( Chuka / 1967 / Released / Paramount Pictures )
Hotel - ( Peter Mcdermott / 1967 / Released / Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution )
The Glass Bottom Boat - ( Bruce Templeton / 1966 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
Do Not Disturb - ( Mike Harper / 1965 / Released / )
Young Cassidy - ( John Cassidy / 1965 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
36 Hours - ( Maj Walter Gerber / 1964 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
Fate Is the Hunter - ( Capt Jack Savage / 1964 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
A Gathering of Eagles - ( Hollis Farr / 1963 / Released / Universal )
Sunday in New York - ( Mike Mitchell / 1963 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
The Birds - ( Mitch Brenner / 1963 / Released / )
The V.I.P.s - ( Les Mangrum / 1963 / Released / )
101 Dalmatians - ( / 1961 / Released / )
The Time Machine - ( George / 1960 / Released / )
Ask Any Girl - ( Ross Taford / 1959 / Released / MGM/UA Entertainment Company )
Step Down to Terror - ( Mike Randall / 1959 / Released / Universal )
Separate Tables - ( Charles / 1958 / Released / )
Raintree County - ( Garwood B Jones / 1957 / Released / )
Hell on Frisco Bay - ( Brodie Evans / 1956 / Released / )
The Catered Affair - ( Ralph Halloran / 1956 / Released / )
World Without End - ( Herbert Ellis / 1956 / Released / Allied Artists )
The Virgin Queen - ( Corporal Gwilym / 1955 / Released / )
Top Gun - ( Lem Sutter / 1955 / Released / )

TV Credits
Intimate Portrait: Tippi Hedren ( 2001 / Released ): Actor
The Warlord: Battle For the Galaxy ( 1998 / Released ): Actor
Grass Roots ( 1992 / Released ): Actor
Danielle Steel's "Palomino" ( 1991 / Released ): Actor
Outlaws ( 1986 / Released ): Actor
Masquerade ( 1983 / Released ): Actor
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story ( 1982 / Released ): Actor
Falcon Crest ( 1981 / Released ): Actor
Hellinger's Law ( 1981 / Released ): Actor
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy ( 1981 / Released ): Actor
Cry of the Innocent ( 1980 / Released ): Actor
The Oregon Trail ( 1977 / Released ): Actor
A Matter of Wife... and Death ( 1976 / Released ): Actor
Oregon Trail ( 1976 / Released ): Actor
Family Flight ( 1972 / Released ): Actor
Bearcats! ( 1971 / Released ): Actor
Powderkeg ( 1971 / Released ): Actor
The Twilight Zone ( 1959 / Released ): Actor
The Desilu Playhouse ( 1958 / Released ): Actor
Walker, Texas Ranger ( Released ): Actor

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Theater-exprienced, ruggedly handsome performer who went to Hollywood in 1955 and hit a peak in the early 1960s as tough but endearing lead of adventure-thrillers, including George Pal's first-rate adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" (1960) and Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963).

Profession(s):
Actor, painter
Sometimes Credited As:
Rodney Taylor
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Family
daughter:Felicia Taylor (co-anchor, "This Morning's Business" on KCOP, in Los Angeles)
wife:Mary Hilem (married June 3, 1963; divorced 1969; one daughter)
wife:Peggy Wiliams (divorced)

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Education
East Sydney Art College Sydney, Australia art 1944
Awards (Back to top)

Motion Picture Exhibitors Golden Laurel Award 1968

Milestones (Back to top)

1967 Debut as film producer, "Chuka" (also actor)
1955 US film debut, "Top Gun"
1954 Film debut, "Long John Silver" (Australian film)
Began career as artist

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