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Rod Taylor
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Australian actor (1930-2015)
OverviewAI-generated
Rod Taylor (1930–2015) was a United States-based artist whose professional career spanned from 1951 to 2009. The individual is identified as female and associated with genres including alternative pop and americana. Taylor’s musical output has been tagged with reggae, roots reggae, jamaican, and dub styles.
As an author, Taylor has eleven recorded works, including *Canal Cannot*, *Bronte Beat*, *It's Me*, *Path to a Sustainable Civilisation*, and *Arts in the Primary School (Rle Edu O)*. Additional publications are listed in academic databases. The artist’s profile is referenced by 349 other encyclopedia articles, and an official website is maintained for further information.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Crossref, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- Rodney Sturt Taylor , ( 1930-01-11 ) 11 January 1930, Lidcombe , New South Wales , Australia
- Died
- 7 January 2015 (2015-01-07) (aged 84), Beverly Hills , California , US
- Resting place
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park , Hollywood Hills , California , US
- Education
- University of New South Wales
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1950–2009
- Spouses
- Peggy Williams ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1954 ) Mary Hilem ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1963 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1969 ) Carol Kikumura ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1980 )
- Children
- Felicia Taylor
- Website
- rodtaylorblog .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Taylor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Sydney
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Australian English
- Official website
- www.rodtaylorsite.com
- Image
- Rod Taylor - 1963.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- date of death
- 2015-01-07
- Commons category
- Rod Taylor
- date of birth
- 1930-01-11
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- start of work period
- 1951-00-00
- end of work period
- 2009-00-00
- birth name
- Rodney Taylor
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Encyclopedic overview
Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including Young Cassidy (1965), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), The Train Robbers (1973), and A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975).
Taylor was born in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, to a father who was a steel construction contractor and commercial artist and a mother who was a children's author. He began taking art classes in high school, and continued in college. He decided to become an actor after seeing Laurence Olivier in an Old Vic touring production of Richard III.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rod Taylor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.