Rod Taylor
Birthday: 1930-01-11
Place of Birth: Sydney - New South Wales - Australia
Biography: Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor (January 11, 1930 – January 7, 2015) was an Australian-born American actor of film and television. He appeared in over 50 films, including leading roles in The Time Machine, Seven Seas to Calais, The Birds, Sunday in New York, Young Cassidy, Dark of the Sun, The Liquidator, and The Train Robbers.
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The Birds
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attac...
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The Time Machine
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostil...
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Giant
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful yo...
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Zabriskie Point
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles de...
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Cry of the Innocent
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their ...
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Welcome to Woop Woop
A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange t...
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The Virgin Queen
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing fo...
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must f...
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Dark of the Sun
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, batt...
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The Glass Bottom Boat
Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biogra...
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The Liquidator
Lighthearted spy drama about Boysie Oakes, who takes a nice job with the British Secret Service, enj...
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The Train Robbers
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she ...
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The Picture Show Man
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies...
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The Great Gatsby
Adaptation of the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald for "Playhouse 90." A Midwesterner becomes fasci...
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Separate Tables
The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in t...
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The V.I.P.s
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal tri...
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36 Hours
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can...
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Sunday in New York
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce....
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Do Not Disturb
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon...
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Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Baste...
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Raintree County
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted fr...
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Darker Than Amber
Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry...
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Nobody Runs Forever
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level...
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Hell on Frisco Bay
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeer...
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Step Down to Terror
Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town...
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Hell River
Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually culmin...
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World Without End
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th-cen...
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Ask Any Girl
Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-d...
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Hotel
This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious y...
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Fate Is the Hunter
An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and pe...
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US Against the World
This NBC Special from 1977 pitted celebrities from the worlds of film and TV in the United States ag...
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The Catered Affair
An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding....
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A Gathering of Eagles
A B-52 commander must prepare his men to pass a grueling inspection....
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Young Cassidy
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restr...
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All About 'The Birds'
A wonderfully informative 80-minute documentary combining current interviews with archival materials...
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The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
The time is the 21st century, after the fall of the Galactic Republic. Technology is at a standstill...
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The Deadly Trackers
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their pa...
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Seven Seas to Calais
Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I....
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her...
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Palomino
After the break up of her marriage, photographer Samantha Taylor retreats to the sanctuary of friend...
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Family Flight
A bitterly divided family is forced to cooperate when their holiday plane crash-lands in the Califor...
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Top Gun
A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with h...
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On the Run
1) A man becomes a target after witnessing an assassination. 2) Mr. Payatta is a coldhearted profes...
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Vortex
Rod Taylor plays a United Nations bio-warfare disarmament expert whose lonely wife (Catherine Jourda...
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Grass Roots
This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an...
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The Heroes
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team...
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The Man Who Had Power Over Women
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend ...
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The Hell with Heroes
In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggle...
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Trader Horn
During the First World War a Hunter and trader in Africa joins forces with a couple looking for a so...
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A Time to Die
A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targe...
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The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a s...
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King of the Coral Sea
A body is found floating in the Torres Strait and pearler Ted King is asked to investigate. He disco...
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Kaw
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that ea...
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Long John Silver
In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and ...
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Half Nelson
Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to...
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A Matter of Wife... and Death
A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private...
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Inland with Sturt
Inland with Sturt is a 1951 documentary from Film Australia consisting of the 1950-51 re-enactment o...
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Mask of Murder
In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have n...
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Powderkeg
A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and...
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Hellinger's Law
A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (act...
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Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor....
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Time Machine: The Journey Back
Documentary/Sequel to 1960 adaptation of "The Time Machine"...
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Jamaican Gold
A chance meeting leads two former college friends into a search for sunken treasure, a search which ...
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Every Girl's Dream
Nancy Bernard, the 1966 Maid of Cotton, is shown walking through various sets and sound stages at th...
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Not Quite Hollywood
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou...
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Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana ...
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Disney's Halloween Treat
Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," ...
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Open Season
When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenl...
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Lionpower from MGM
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's rel...
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Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
Documentary on the History of Science Fiction Movies from The Day the Earth Stood Still onward....
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Disney's Greatest Dog Stars
This installment looks at the dogs who have starred in Disney films, past and present. The program e...
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