Rod Taylor
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- born: 11/Jan/1930 (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Biography
Rod Taylor (born Rodney Sturt Taylor) is an Australian-born film and television actor.
Born in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, Taylor was the only child of a construction contractor father and a writer mother.
He attended Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College before deciding to become an actor after seeing Laurence Olivier in an Old Vic touring production that performed in Australia.
After acquiring radio and stage experience in Australia, Taylor moved to the United States in 1954, where he became a leading man in feature films of the 1960's and 1970's.
Equally adept at light comedy and drama, his best-known films are the 1963 Hitchcock classic "The Birds", and the 1960 version of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine".
Married three times, Taylor is a life-long painter, with homes in southern California, and in his native Australia. He is the father of statuesque New York City WNBC Channel 4 anchorwoman, Felicia Taylor.
Filmography
With Hitchcock...
- The Birds (1963) - cast: Mitch Brenner
Documentaries
He has appeared in the following Hitchcockian documentaries...
- All About The Birds (2000)
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