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Rod Taylor

ロッド・テイラー　/　ろっど・ていらー

Stage actor from Australia

January 11, 1930 – January 7, 2015　・　Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales
stage actor
film actor
screenwriter

My Take

Rod Taylor was a proper old-school movie star, the kind of rugged, charismatic leading man Hollywood doesn't really make anymore. The Australian actor headlined more than fifty films, and I'll always love him as the dashing scientist in George Pal's The Time Machine and the harried hero of Hitchcock's The Birds. He had this perfect blend of toughness and warmth, equally believable throwing a punch or delivering a wry line. Late in life he made a wonderful final bow as Winston Churchill in Inglourious Basterds. He passed away in 2015, just shy of 85, but those classic performances keep his easy magnetism very much alive.

Overview

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.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Rod Taylor
Name (Japanese): ロッド・テイラー
Reading: ろっど・ていらー
Born: January 11, 1930 – January 7, 2015
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Horse
Origin: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: stage actor / film actor / screenwriter / film producer / television actor

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Parramatta High School
University: East Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Official sitehttps://www.rodtaylorsite.com/
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC

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