Rod Taylor

Born: 1930-01-11

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor (born 11 January 1930  – 7 January 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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as Winston Churchill
Released: 2009-08-02

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The...

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One Hundred and One Dalmatians

as Pongo (voice)
Released: 1961-01-25

When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents...

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The Birds

as Mitch Brenner
Released: 1963-03-28

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly...

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The Time Machine

as H. George Wells
Released: 1960-05-25

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two...

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Giant

as Sir David Karfrey
Released: 1956-11-08

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a...

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Dark of the Sun

as Curry
Released: 1968-02-08

A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain,...

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Kaw

as Doc
Released: 2007-04-07

On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens...

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The Train Robbers

as Grady
Released: 1973-02-01

A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that...

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Zabriskie Point

as Lee Allen
Released: 1970-03-26

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los...

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Separate Tables

as Charles
Released: 1958-12-18

Boarders at an English resort struggle with emotional problems.

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A Gathering of Eagles

as Col. Hollis Farr
Released: 1963-06-21

Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52...

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The Glass Bottom Boat

as Bruce Templeton
Released: 1966-06-09

Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his...

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Fate Is the Hunter

as Captain Jack Savage
Released: 1964-11-08

A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for...

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Hotel

as Peter McDermott
Released: 1967-01-19

This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The...

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Not Quite Hollywood

as Self
Released: 2008-08-28

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art...

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Raintree County

as Garwood B. Jones
Released: 1957-12-20

In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is...

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The Virgin Queen

as Cpl. Gwilym
Released: 1955-07-22

Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get...

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36 Hours

as Major Walter Gerber
Released: 1964-11-26

Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they...

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The V.I.P.s

as Les Mangrum
Released: 1963-09-01

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal...

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Chuka

as Chuka
Released: 1967-07-23

A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.

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Welcome to Woop Woop

as Daddy-O
Released: 1998-08-13

A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a...

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The Great Gatsby

as Nick Carraway
Released: 1958-06-26

Adaptation of the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald for "Playhouse 90." A Midwesterner becomes...

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The Deadly Trackers

as Frank Brand
Released: 1973-12-21

Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When...

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The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy

as General Sorenson
Released: 1996-09-20

The time is the 21st century, after the fall of the Galactic Republic. Technology is at a...

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The Catered Affair

as Ralph Halloran
Released: 1956-06-14

An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.

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World Without End

as Herbert Ellis
Released: 1956-03-25

Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th...

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Sunday in New York

as Mike Mitchell
Released: 1963-11-13

An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.

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The Liquidator

as Brian Ian "Boysie" Oakes
Released: 1965-11-01

Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual...

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Long John Silver

as Israel Hands
Released: 1954-12-16

In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate...

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Step Down to Terror

as Mike Randall
Released: 1958-09-01

Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California...

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Young Cassidy

as John Cassidy
Released: 1965-02-25

In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are...

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Disney's Halloween Treat

as Pongo (voice) (archive footage)
Released: 1982-10-30

Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the...

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Cry of the Innocent

as Steve Donegin
Released: 1980-06-15

An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into...

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Nobody Runs Forever

as Scobie Malone
Released: 1968-08-22

Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a...

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Hell River

as Marko
Released: 1974-07-17

Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually...

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Do Not Disturb

as Mike Harper
Released: 1965-12-22

American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she...

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Mask of Murder

as Supt. Bob McLaine
Released: 1985-10-15

In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane...

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Ask Any Girl

as Ross Taford
Released: 1959-08-21

Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in...

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US Against the World

as Self
Released: 1977-09-07

This NBC Special from 1977 pitted celebrities from the worlds of film and TV in the United...

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Family Flight

as Jason Carlyle
Released: 1972-10-25

A bitterly divided family is forced to cooperate when their holiday plane crash-lands in the...

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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

as 'Black Jack' Bouvier
Released: 1981-10-14

Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to...

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The Picture Show Man

as Palmer
Released: 1977-05-05

A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies

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A Time To Die

as Jack Bailey
Released: 1982-03-26

A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His...

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Top Gun

as Lem Sutter
Released: 1955-12-01

A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met...

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Darker Than Amber

as Travis McGee
Released: 1970-08-14

Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder...

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The Man Who Had Power Over Women

as Peter Reaney
Released: 1970-08-12

A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his...

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Vortex

as Christopher Tauling
Released: 1976-01-14

Rod Taylor plays a United Nations bio-warfare disarmament expert whose lonely wife (Catherine...

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King of the Coral Sea

as Jack Janiero
Released: 1954-08-12

A body is found floating in the Torres Strait and pearler Ted King is asked to investigate. He...

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A Matter of Wife... and Death

as Shamus McCoy
Released: 1975-05-03

A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former...

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Open Season

as Billy Patrick
Released: 1995-01-14

When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but...

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Colossus and the Amazon Queen

as Pirro
Released: 1960-09-08

Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.

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Palomino

as Bill King
Released: 1991-10-21

After the break up of her marriage, photographer Samantha Taylor retreats to the sanctuary of...

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Hell on Frisco Bay

as John Brodie Evans (as Rodney Taylor)
Released: 1955-12-31

A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob...

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Seven Seas to Calais

as Sir Francis Drake
Released: 1962-12-22

Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I.

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Trader Horn

as Trader Horn
Released: 1973-06-01

During the First World War a Hunter and trader in Africa joins forces with a couple looking for...

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Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story

as Edward Adeane
Released: 1982-09-17

Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain's Prince Charles and Lady...

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Powderkeg

as Hank Brackett
Released: 1971-04-16

A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train...

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Time Machine: The Journey Back

as Himself / Narrator / H.G. Welles
Released: 1993-08-25

Documentary/Sequel to 1960 adaptation of "The Time Machine"

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Marbella

as Commander W.P. Anderson
Released: 1985-10-13

Comedy thriller directed by Miguel Hermoso.

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Half Nelson

as uncredited
Released: 1985-03-24

Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his...

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Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches

as Self
Released: 2017-04-17

Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.

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Grass Roots

as Gen. Willoughby
Released: 1992-02-24

This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will...

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The Hell with Heroes

as Brynie MacKay
Released: 1968-08-28

In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international...

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The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

as Self
Released: 1986-07-31

Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and...

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All About 'The Birds'

as Self
Released: 2000-05-28

A wonderfully informative 80-minute documentary combining current interviews with archival...

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Hellinger's Law

as Clint Tolliver
Released: 1981-03-10

A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant...

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On the Run

as Mr. Payatta
Released: 1983-09-02

1) A man becomes a target after witnessing an assassination. 2) Mr. Payatta is a coldhearted...

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Jamaican Gold

as Marian Casey
Released: 1979-12-31

A chance meeting leads two former college friends into a search for sunken treasure, a search...

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The Heroes

as Lieutenant Bob Robson
Released: 1973-02-23

Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II,...

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Every Girl's Dream

as Self
Released: 1966-01-01

Nancy Bernard, the 1966 Maid of Cotton, is shown walking through various sets and sound stages...

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Falcon Crest

as Frank Agretti
First aired: 1981-12-04

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Tom Dempsey
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Inspector Rory Lanahan
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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The Twilight Zone

as Clegg Forbes
First aired: 1959-10-02

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Paul Duveen
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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Cheyenne

as Clancy
First aired: 1955-09-20

Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Jed Harper
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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Walker, Texas Ranger

as Gordon Cahill
First aired: 1993-04-21

Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in...

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Studio One

as Anthony Fouche
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Water Rats

as Coach
First aired: 1996-02-12

Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.

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Studio 57

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-09-21

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont...

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Studio 57

as Tommy Scarbrough
First aired: 1954-09-21

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont...

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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-06

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu...

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Suspicion

as Jim
First aired: 1957-09-30

Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC...

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Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Accepting Award
First aired: 1944-01-20

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...

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Hong Kong

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-03-01

Hong Kong is a 26-episode adventure/drama series which aired on ABC television during the...

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Bus Stop

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-10-01

Bus Stop is a 26-episode American drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25,...

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The Oregon Trail

as Evan Thorpe
First aired: 1977-09-21

The Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the...

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Outlaws

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-12-28

Outlaws is a short-lived action-adventure American television series which aired Saturday nights...

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Masquerade

as Lavender
First aired: 1983-12-15

Masquerade is an American espionage television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Boyd Harland
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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General Electric Theater

as Sam Tipton
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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General Electric Theater

as Fred Gauman
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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Bearcats!

as Hank Brackett
First aired: 1971-09-16

Bearcats! is an American television series broadcast on the CBS television network during the...

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