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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“Saw that the first time on TV was I was a young kid long before Impy was born(late 1960s??) , it was made a while before that in 1960. Did you see that one Impy?”
Another one to add to the list.
I did see the Birds, creepy.
RIP
Fprgpt wjp tjat was with Tippi, she sort of took your attention away, still does looking at that pic.
They were showing The Time Machine on TCM the other night. My favorite movie of his was The Birds. RIP.
Enjoyed Taylor in many of his roles but I always think of him as George Wells in The Time Machine. Watched it again the other evening. Direction and acting make up for less sophisticated visual effects of the 2002 remake. As I told friends there is nothing like a great story well-told.
Now THAT was a great movie.
He was also in “The Train Robbers” with John Wayne and Ann Margaret!
I'm more familiar with Young's work than Taylor's, although I see Taylor continued to act in recent years, and portrayed Winston Churchill in Inglourious Bastards (2009)
Alan Young is more famous, of course, for being on “Mr. Ed.” He outlived his younger co-star who played his wife (and the horse, of course).
Young & Taylor did a rather touching short sequel of sorts to “The Time Machine”, which was basically a single scene where the two of them meet some years after the fact before Young’s character is to die in WW1.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300555/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_7
Here’s the Rod Taylor movie that I’ve never seen, and can’t find a copy of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darker_than_Amber_%28film%29
IMO, he’s one of the few actors who could come close to portraying McGee. He’s a bit short for the role, but his masculine image tends to make up for it.
I’ve never seen it, either. Aside from “The Birds” and “The Time Machine”, a lot of his films don’t get a lot of play.
I caught Dark of the Sun on cable a year or so ago and DVR’d it. Crackling good action flick. Kenneth Moore had a good role in it.
He did it sans delorean sans flux capacitor sans 88mph
And does anyone remember his FIRST Time Travel Movie? Four years before The Time Machine was World Without End about a space ship trip that flirted with the SOL and when they landed it was centuries later and after nuclear war and the earth was populated with dumb normals and mutants. This was similar to planet of the apes and the time machine
RIP Rod
He was great in both. I also liked in him the movie, Hotel. Even though much older that I, I always thought he was very handsome when I saw those older films.
Murder She Wrote is often on the Hallmark Movie Channel (different than the Hallmark channel). I think it ma be on sometimes during the week, but I’ve seen it primarily on Sundays. Not sure about your area but it’s channel 500 on Comcast in my area
Thank you!
I get Hallmark Channel, I will look for Murder She Wrote!!!
RIP Rod.
Sad.
Little known fact: he turned down James Bond in the early 60’s.
I too love the film, second only in mercenary films in my list to The Wild Geese.
Which we now know to be an impossibility. For time is space and vice versa (Thanks Mr. Einstein).
For those scenes to be accurate, he would have to move through space as well as time in order to wind up in the same location each time.
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