Rod Taylor

Rod Taylor

Date of Birth: 11 Jan 1930

Country: Australia

Total Credits at Criticker: 46 (Actor)

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    The Birds
    Birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people, in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. (imdb)
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    The Time Machine
    A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humamity has divided into two hostile species. (imdb)
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    101 Dalmatians
    When a litter of dalmation puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. (imdb)
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    Giant
    Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates. (imdb)
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    Zabriskie Point
    An epic portrait of late sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children.
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    The Virgin Queen
    Sir Walter Raleigh gains audience with Queen Elizabeth I and soon wins her over to his way of thinking. He wants ships to sail and make a name for England. A young ward of the court, Beth Throgmorton, is strongly attracted to Raleigh and returns the attraction. But soon the Queen shows her desires and he bends in order to achieve his goal of ships. But still he loves Beth. (imdb)
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    Young Cassidy
    Rod Taylor is Cassidy, a boisterous boy who digs ditches to support his mother and sister. In his spare time, Cassidy is active with the Irish revolutionary movement against the occupying British. He still finds time enough for romance, notably with trashy chorine Julie Christie and timid librarian Maggie Smith... (All Movie Guide)
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    Dark of the Sun
    A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through the Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to rescue $25 million in uncut diamonds. (imdb)
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    The Catered Affair
    At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Janes parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph's parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates... (imdb)
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    The V.I.P.s
    Awaiting at London Airport for a flight to New York, Frances Andros (Elizabeth Taylor), seen off by her tycoon husband, Paul Andros (Richard Burton), plans to leave her spouse for the arms of an aging international playboy, Marc Champselle (Louis Jourdan). Les Mangrum (Rod Taylor), a self-made Australian businessman traveling with his loyal secretary, Miss Mead (Maggie Smith), must be in New York the following day to arrange the loan that will help him repel a hostile takeover of his tractor company.(imdb)
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    Separate Tables
    It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life at the Beauregard is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel.(imdb)
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    The Glass Bottom Boat
    Jennifer Nelson and Bruce Templeton meet when Bruce reels in her mermaid suit leaving Jennifer bottomless in the waters of Catalina Island. She later discovers that Bruce is the big boss at her work (a research lab). Bruce hires Jennifer to be his biographer only to try and win her affections. There's a problem Bruce's friend General Wallace Bleeker believes she's a Russian spy and has her surveillanced. But when Jennifer catches on...Watch out! (imdb)
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    The Train Robbers
    A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh. (imdb)
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    Do Not Disturb
    Doris Day and Rod Taylor star in this romantic comedy as Janet and Mike Harper, a married couple who relocate to England when Mike is transferred by the company for whom he works. While Janet and Mike seem to be happy together, the trip across the pond seems to bring on a case of the Seven Year Itch; he has his head turned by his new secretary, while she meets an amorous antique dealer... (All Movie Guide)
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    Colossus and the Amazon Queen
    After the Trojan War, Glauco is the strongest man amongst the Greeks. His friend Pirro meets two men who offer him a large sum of money to persuade Glauco to sail towards unexplored shores. Pirro accepts the proposal and convinces Glauco with a trick: he hits him on his head. The ship lands at a strange place where Pirro and the other men aboard are drugged and find themselves in the hands of the Amazons... (imdb)
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    36 Hours
    Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him. (IMDb)
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    Raintree County
    Idealist John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint) and enters into a passionate, but loveless, marriage with Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) a wealthy New Orleans belle... (imdb)
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    Ask Any Girl
    Sales girl falls for the younger of a company run by two brothers. The elder falls for her but plans to help her get his brother because he doesn't know he's in love. (imdb)
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    World Without End
    Four astronauts returning from mankind's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. (imdb)
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    Long John Silver
    In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and return for more treasure. (imdb)
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    The Deadly Trackers
    Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick (Harris) is a pacifist. Frank Brand (Taylor) is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is challenged by a noble Mexican Sheriff (Lettieri) interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance. (imdb)
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    Chuka
    While Indians besiege a U.S. Army fort in 1876, residents of the fort a gunfighter, a stagecoach driver, two Mexican women, and a motley company of soldiers try to come to terms with their pasts. (imdb)
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    Sunday in New York
    Eileen is 22 and engaged to Russ. She comes to New York to visit her brother, an airline pilot. One of Eileen's concerns is that she may be the only 22 year old virgin left in the world. Russ assures her that sex is not want all men look for and that he does not, in fact, concern himself about different women every time. Eileen is unsure about marrying Russ, and decides to see if she can have some fun for herself in New York. But can she have that kind of fun with Mike who she meets on the bus? (imdb.com)
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    Kaw
    Chief of Police Wayne Merkle and his new wife move out of the city to start a new life. But the quiet day quickly transforms into a torrent of terror and death, as the townspeople are viciously attacked by thousands of ravens who are fierce, intelligent and deadly. Now it's up to Wayne, along with the town doctor and a military veteran, to save the remaining townspeople before the birds take over the town entirely.
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    Fate Is the Hunter
    A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. (imdb)
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    A Gathering of Eagles
    Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before. (imdb)
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    Hotel
    A New Orleans hotel owner fights off a corporate raider while his guests struggle through a variety of personal problems. (TCM.com)
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    Top Gun
    Gunfighter Rick Martin returns to his hometown of Casper, Wyoming to learn of the fate of his mother and to warn the town of an impending raid by the Tom Quentin gang. The townspeople however reject him, afraid that his gunslinging past will cause new trouble. Rick learns that his mother did not die of illness but was murdered, and he comes to suspect the town's leading citizen -- a man now engaged to marry the woman Rick loves. (imdb)
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    The Liquidator
    Colonel Mostyn is the chief of a section of the British Security Services when they are embarrassed by the number of spies and defections. The Chief tells him to do something about it so he hires Boys Oaks as Agent L - The Liquidator, to assassinate people about to cause trouble. Although Boys likes the cars and the girls that his new position attracts he's not any good at it. He's also got a phobia about flying that makes jetting off to exotic places a bit of an embarrassment. (imdb)
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    Darker Than Amber
    Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Caribbean cruise to bring the killer to justice. (imdb)
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    The Hell with Heroes
    In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II. (imdb)
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    The High Commissioner
    Rod Taylor plays a policeman sent to return a sensitive case; An Australian citizen, currently acting as high commissioner for peace talks who is wanted for an old charge -- of murder. The talks are too sensitive to be disturbed, so Taylor ends up watching Christopher Plummer as he conducts his talks, and discovers that some want the talks to fail enough to think that killing Plummer is an obvious way to stop them. (imdb)
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    Seven Seas to Calais
    Sir Francis Drake (Rod Taylor) goes on an expedition to the New World and steals gold from the Spaniards. After making a daring getaway, he returns to England where he protects Queen Elizabeth I from a network of spies who are plotting to overthrow her. (imdb)
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    Welcome to Woop Woop
    A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits. (imdb)
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    Step Down to Terror
    Charles Drake plays Johnny Williams, a psychotic serial killer who returns to his hometown to visit his mother and widowed sister-in-law Helen, both of whom are ignorant of his criminal past. (nytimes.com)
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    Hellinger\
    Telly Savalas plays a flamboyant criminal lawyer who takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has infiltrated the mob) accused of murdering a local TV newscaster. (imdb)
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    The Heroes
    A group attempts to embezzle and hide a fortune of 2,000,000 pounds while outwitting the British Intelligence during World War II in this action movie. (allrovi.com)
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    The Picture Show Man
    At the beginnings of this centuary a man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies (naturally in black and white). (imdb)
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    Cry of the Innocent
    A Green Beret-veteran businessman investigates the plane crash in Ireland that killed his family. (imdb)
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    Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
    Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into the White House. (imdb)
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    The Man Who Had Power Over Women
    Peter Reaney (Rod Taylor) is the successful talent agent who enjoys the things that money can buy. He also considers himself a parasite, living off the talents of his clients. When his wife Angela (Penelope Horner) walks out on him, he moves in with his friend Val (James Booth) and his wife Jody (Carol White). He and Jody engage in an adulterous affair, but Peter's main worry is doing damage control for the spoiled pop singer Barry Black (Clive Francis). (allmovie.com)
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    Mask of Murder
    In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now the killing seems to have ended, but the killer picks yet another victim... (imdb)
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    A Matter of Wife... and Death
    Rod Taylor stars in this feature-length pilot film for the unsold TV series Shamus. The star is cast as Shamus McCoy, who befitting his name, makes his living as a private detective. While investigating the bomb killing over another gumshoe, McCoy picks up a trail of evidence leading to a major gambling operation. Anita Gillette played the "wife" in question, one Helen Baker. A Matter of Wife... (allmovie.com)
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    Danielle Steel\
    After the break up of her marriage Samantha goes to a ranch where she falls in love with a ranch hand Tate. But Tate, ashamed by his status, leaves. Samantha embarks on a project photographing the 'real' cowboys of the west but is paralysed in an accident. She inherits a ranch turning it into a riding school for paralysed children. Through this she begins to heal from the pain, but Tate returns to the ranch to see her again.
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    The Twilight Zone
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    Tales of the Unexpected
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