Biography: Rod Taylor |
Just as British-born James Stewart found it necessary to change his name to Stewart Granger upon embarking on an acting career, so too was Australian Robert Taylor compelled to choose another cognomen upon entering show business. He tried Rodney... more
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Tags: Natural Horror Horror
Length: 92min
Sean Patrick Flannery and Rod Taylor star in this horrific tale of a small town overrun by a conspiracy of flesh eating ravens. Middletown sheriff Wayne Merkle (Flannery) has grown used to the quiet life over the years, and like the other citizens of...
Cast: Helen Shaver Ron Shelton Marvin Hamlisch Robert Wuhl
Length: 97min
Big business dealings, competition, and TV ratings wars are satirized in this biting comedy. Stuart Sain is an egotistical, over-ambitious Jewish executive. He works for Fielding, a company like Nielsen which uses small boxes to garner TV ratings...
Length: 105min
In this routine but still interesting "B"-movie, Harry (Paul Winfield) is an escaped convict from the U.S. who has found shelter for awhile in Australia, at least until he meets Paul (Beau Cox), an orphan who has just witnessed an assassination....
Cast: Rex Harrison Ennio Morricone Edward Albert Mario Puzo
Tags: Crime Drama Crime Thriller
Length: 91min
In this mystery, a vengeful husband goes looking for the six people who tortured him and then killed his wife. The husband is a WW II vet and one of the killers is now a high-ranking German official. The plot is based on a Mario Puzo story. The film...
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981)
Cast: James Franciscus
Length: 150min
Jaclyn Smith trades the flimsy costumes of Charlie's Angels for the pink pillbox hat and white gloves of the former First Lady of the Land in the made-for-TV Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The daughter of socialites "Black Jack" Bouvier (Rod Taylor) and...
A Matter of Wife... and Death (1976)
Cast: John Colicos
Tags: Crime Drama Crime
Length: 74min
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...
Cast: Adam West
Length: 118min
Featured performances by American performers Adam West (best known in the U.S. as television's "Batman") and Rod Taylor distinguish this Yugoslavian action film about partisans. Anna is a Jewish girl who hopes to rescue her grandfather from the...
Cast: Bibi Andersson Rod Taylor
Tags: Drama Political Drama
Length: 90min
This French film has nothing to do with Chick Young's cartoon series about the Bumstead family; neither does it relate to the 1980's pop group Blondie. In this political drama, Rod Taylor appears as a United Nations official, active in the effort to...
Tags: Drama
Length: 99min
This easygoing drama offers a look back at the early days of the Australian movie business, and it was based on the real-life adventures of pioneering Aussie exhibitor Lyle Penn. Maurice "Pop" Pym (John Meillon) loves motion pictures, and he wants to...
Tags: War Adventure War Adventure
Length: 105min
This film is based on the 1931 film, Trader Horn. In the earlier picture, explorers (including Trader Horn) who stumbled on a hostile tribe of Africans have their lives saved by a white girl whom the tribe members regard as a goddess. They discover...
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