Posted on 01/08/2015 5:16:27 PM PST by ConorMacNessa
LEGENDARY Australian actor Rod Taylor has passed away in the early hours of the morning US time after suffering from a heart attack.
The 84-year-old, who starred in Hollywood flicks including most recently Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, was said to have died at home in LA following a dinner party.
It was to have been his birthday on Sunday.
His daughter Felicia confirmed his death to CNN.
“My dad loved his work. Being an actor was his passion – calling it an honorable art and something he couldn’t live without,” Felicia, a former CNN News correspondent, said in a statement.
“He once said, ‘I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist,” she continued, “ ‘so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.”
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You’re very welcome! Just to confirm, it’s the Hallmark Movie Channel, not the regular Hallmark Channel. If you get the regular Hallmark Channel, you probably get the Hallmark Movie Channel, too.
Last year they had Mystery Weekends, which I think they plan to do this year. They show all day older TV shows like Murder She Wrote, Diagnosis Murder, Mystery Woman (with Kellie Martin and Lync from the Mod Squad - I usually find interesting), and another that I can’t remember the name of right now with Lea Thompson and Joe Penney.
I heard yesterday that they’ll be doing a Murder She Wrote marathon all day today on the Hallmark Movie & Mystery Channel. That channel is 500 on Comcast here and the regular Hallmark channel is 19.
Check out his 1966 film “The Liquidator” were he played British agent Boysie Oakes. His leading lady was Bond girl Jill St. John and Bond theme diva Dame Shirley Bassey sang the title song. It’s probably the closest role to Bond that Taylor ever played.
Mmmm, Jill St. John. Another one of my 60s fantasies.
Am I the only one who remembers him as Daddy-O in ‘Welcome To Woop Woop’? , Well, f**k me dead!
There was a handsome dude. Loved him.
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