Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor
Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylorwas an Australian actor of film and television. He appeared in over 50 films, including roles in The Time Machine, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Seven Seas to Calais, The Birds, Sunday in New York, Young Cassidy, Dark of the Sun, The Liquidator, Darker Than Amber, The Train Robbers, and Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds as Winston Churchill, which was his final film appearance...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth11 January 1930
CountryAustralia
I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.
When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.
But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.
The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.
I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.
So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.
To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.