8.0
8.0
Powderkeg
1971
as Hank Brackett
Rod Taylor
Acting
N/A
CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including Young Cassidy (1965), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), The Train Robbers (1973), and A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975). Taylor was born in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, to a father who was a steel construction contractor and commercial artist and a mother who was a children's author. He began taking art classes in high school, and continued in college. He decided to become an actor after seeing Laurence Olivier in an Old Vic touring production of Richard III. His first film role was in a re-enactment of Charles Sturt's voyage down the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers, playing Sturt's offsider, George Macleay. At the time, he was also appearing in a number of theatre productions for Australia's Mercury Theatre. He made his feature film debut in the Australian Lee Robinson film King of the Coral Sea (1954). He soon started acting in television films, portraying several different characters in the 1950s anthology series Studio 57. He started to gain popularity after starring in The Time Machine (1960), as H. George Wells. He later starred in the Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), voicing Pongo. In one of his most famous roles, he played Mitch Brenner in The Birds (1963), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. By the late 1990s, Taylor had moved into semiretirement. His final film role was in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), portraying Winston Churchill in a cameo.
Filmography (70 movies)
7.6
7.6
Giant
1956
as Sir David Karfrey
7.5
7.5
King of the Coral Sea
1954
as Jack Janiero
7.5
7.5
Hellinger's Law
1981
as Clint Tolliver
7.5
7.5
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
1981
as 'Black Jack' Bouvier
7.5
7.5
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
1986
as Self
7.5
7.5
The Birds
1963
as Mitch Brenner
7.4
7.4
The Time Machine
1960
as H. George Wells
7.2
7.2
All About 'The Birds'
2000
as Self
7.2
7.2
The Virgin Queen
1955
as Cpl. Gwilym
7.2
7.2
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
1961
as Pongo (voice)
7.1
7.1
The Catered Affair
1956
as Ralph Halloran
7.0
7.0
Zabriskie Point
1970
as Lee Allen
7.0
7.0
Time Machine: The Journey Back
1993
as Himself / Narrator / H.G. Welles
7.0
7.0
Separate Tables
1958
as Charles
6.9
6.9
36 Hours
1964
as Major Walter Gerber
6.6
6.6
Sunday in New York
1963
as Mike Mitchell
6.6
6.6
Dark of the Sun
1968
as Curry
6.5
6.5
Fate Is the Hunter
1964
as Captain Jack Savage
6.4
6.4
Raintree County
1957
as Garwood B. Jones
6.4
6.4
Darker Than Amber
1970
as Travis McGee
6.4
6.4
Young Cassidy
1965
as John Cassidy
6.3
6.3
The Train Robbers
1973
as Grady
6.2
6.2
Chuka
1967
Producer
6.2
6.2
The Liquidator
1965
as Brian Ian "Boysie" Oakes
6.2
6.2
The Glass Bottom Boat
1966
as Bruce Templeton
6.2
6.2
Ask Any Girl
1959
as Ross Taford
6.1
6.1
Hell River
1974
as Marko
6.0
6.0
The V.I.P.s
1963
as Les Mangrum
6.0
6.0
Nobody Runs Forever
1968
as Scobie Malone
6.0
6.0
The Picture Show Man
1977
as Palmer
6.0
6.0
The Point of Betrayal
1995
as Ted Kitteridge
5.9
5.9
Hotel
1967
as Peter McDermott
5.9
5.9
Top Gun
1955
as Lem Sutter
5.8
5.8
World Without End
1956
as Herbert Ellis
5.8
5.8
Welcome to Woop Woop
1998
as Daddy-O
5.7
5.7
A Gathering of Eagles
1963
as Col. Hollis Farr
5.7
5.7
Long John Silver
1954
as Israel Hands
5.6
5.6
Step Down to Terror
1958
as Mike Randall
5.6
5.6
The Deadly Trackers
1973
as Frank Brand
5.5
5.5
Do Not Disturb
1965
as Mike Harper
5.2
5.2
The Hell with Heroes
1968
as Brynie MacKay
5.2
5.2
Seven Seas to Calais
1962
as Sir Francis Drake
5.2
5.2
Family Flight
1972
as Jason Carlyle
5.0
5.0
Cry of the Innocent
1980
as Steve Donegin
4.9
4.9
Palomino
1991
as Bill King
4.9
4.9
Hell on Frisco Bay
1955
as John Brodie Evans (as Rodney Taylor)
4.8
4.8
The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
1996
as General Sorenson
4.5
4.5
Kaw
2007
as Doc
4.5
4.5
The Heroes
1973
as Lieutenant Bob Robson
4.4
4.4
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
1960
as Pirro
4.3
4.3
Marbella
1985
as Commander W.P. Anderson
4.3
4.3
Jamaican Gold
1979
Screenplay
4.3
4.3
The Man Who Had Power Over Women
1970
as Peter Reaney
4.2
4.2
Open Season
1995
as Billy Patrick
4.0
4.0
Every Girl's Dream
1966
as Self
3.4
3.4
A Time to Die
1982
as Jack Bailey
3.2
3.2
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
1982
as Edward Adeane
2.7
2.7
Mask of Murder
1985
as Supt. Bob McLaine
2.7
2.7
Vortex
1976
as Christopher Tauling
2.5
2.5
Trader Horn
1973
as Trader Horn
On the Run
1983
as Mr. Payatta
The Great Gatsby
1958
as Nick Carraway
Half Nelson
1985
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies
2022
as Self - (archive footage)
A Matter of Wife... and Death
1975
as Shamus McCoy
Inland with Sturt
1951
as George McLeay
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017
as Self
Grass Roots
1992
as Gen. Willoughby
Wayne Train
1973
as Self
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