Rod Taylor Biography

Rodney Stuart Taylor, aka Rod Taylor, born in Australia EL11 January 1930 and died in Los Angeles, California, United States, January 7, 2015.
Rod Taylor was a movie actor who became a heartthrob and star of classic American cinema of Hollywood in the 60s, with films as remembered as The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock.
He began his acting career in Australia, but soon moved to the US in search of stardom he could not find at home.
Handsome, handsome, soon landed roles gallant in moderately important productions, first in supporting roles, emphasizing its appearance in the movie Giant George Stevens, which included titles like Rodney Taylor.

Took a leading role in the film of Richard Brooks Wedding party (The Catered Affair, 1956) with Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds and Barry Fitzgerald.

Rod Taylor

Had a more prominent role in the blockbuster 1957 Metro Goldwyn Mayer The Tree of Life by Edward Dmytryk, tape would be remembered for the accident that disfigured the face of Montgomery Clift during filming. In this film, Rod Taylor made clear Clift, who was the protagonist.
The following year, 1958, Taylor, worked in film Delbert Mann, Separate Tables. In 1960 he starred in one of his most famous films, The Time Machine, George Pal, produced sci-fi series B, which adapted the novel by HG Wells The Time Machine, in which Rod Taylor plays Wells, as a time traveler.

In 1963 he made his most memorable performance as the protagonist of The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock, which co-starred with actress Tippi Hedren. In the same year also work with Jane Fonda in the film One Sunday in New York.

In 1967 he starred in the big hotel Intrigue, Richard Quine, playing the role of Peter McDermot, who years later would James Brolin in the famous television series Hotel. Also in 1967 he played Chuka, film veteran director Gordon Douglas, produced by Taylor himself, in which the actor played Chuka, fast gunman who would sacrifice his life for love.
Also noteworthy is his performance as the protagonist in the film Zabrisckie Point, Michelangelo Antonioni (1970), with music by Pink Floyd, Kaleidoscope, Grateful Dead, Patti Page, The Youngbloods, John Fahey and others.
In 1973 he made his last important role in the big screen in the film The Train Robbers, Burt Kennedy, which co-starred with John Wayne, Ben Johnson, Ann Margret and Ricardo Montalban.

The stardom could not recover in film, television would give during the eighties, when he starred in a series about the Cold War titled Masquerade.
In his latest role, she played Winston Churchill in the film Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino.

Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux

With respect to privacy, Taylor was in his youth a very eligible bachelor and held romances with France Nuyen and Anita Ekberg.
He was married at age 21 with model Peggy Williams, 1951-1954; At 33 years old, with another model named Mary Hilem, from June 1963 to 1969, whom he met in a given by his friend Kirk Douglas feast, and did father of Felicia Taylor, is now a financial analyst for CNN International; and third marriage was married to Carol Kikumura since 1980.