Rod Taylor (1930 –2015) was an Australian actor. His career spanned over 6 decades with the 1960s being the peak of his career. He is best known for his roles in The Birds, The Time Machine and for providing his voice in the Disney animated classic, 101 Dalmatians. His IMDb page shows 93 acting credits from 1951 to 2009. This page will rank 36 Rod Taylor movies from Best to Worst in five different sortable columns of information. The following table only includes his movies that we were able to find a box office number on…we will continue to search for more Taylor movies. This page comes from repeated requests by longtime UMR contributors Steveleneson and Florarson.
Rod Taylor Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Rod Taylor Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Rod Taylor movie received.
- Sort Rod Taylor movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Rod Taylor
1. Rodney Sturt Taylor was born in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, Austraila in 1930.
2. Rod Taylor studied painting at the East Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. Painting was his first career choice….until…..
3. Rod Taylor decided to become an actor after seeing Laurence Olivier in an Old Vic touring production of Richard III.
4. Rod Taylor played Tarzan in an Australian children’s radio serial in the early 1950s.
5. Rod Taylor acquired extensive radio and stage experience in Australia. Taylor was awarded the 1954 Rola Show Australian Radio Actor of the Year Award, which included a ticket to London via Los Angeles, but Taylor did not continue on to London…instead he stayed in Los Angeles and started his American movie career.
6. Rod Taylor is one of two actors to appear in movies, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. Bruce Dern is the other.
7. Rod Taylor refused a screen test for James Bond, considering it beneath him. “Every time a new Bond picture became a smash hit,” he later admitted, “I tore out my hair.”.
8. Rod Taylor was considered for the role of Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes (1968) before Charlton Heston was cast.
9. Rod Taylor was married three times. He is the father of CNN financial reporter Felicia Taylor.
10. Rod Taylor had completely retired from acting when Quentin Tarantino offered him the role of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Inglourious Basterds (2009). At first Taylor declined the part, suggesting that Tarantino should cast Albert Finney (who had played Churchill to great acclaim in The Gathering Storm (2002)), but eventually the director talked him into it.
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Hi I started to write something about Rod Taylor about being in Giant and then I watched the video and he was engaged to Elizabeth Taylor at beginning of the movie – forgot he was in it.
I thought he was a good actor and I especially liked Fate Is The Hunter and 48 Hours. They were good movies. The Birds and The Time Machine were good too. Thanks for the site.
thanks for the recommendations. your son is a big help to me, as are you. you are in my thoughts and prayers, bob cox
Hey bob cox….here to help….here to help….lol.
Hey Bern1960…..doubting me? I am so disappointed…..lol. Thanks for checking out our Rod Taylor page. I will have to check out Fate Is The Hunter……36 Hours, The Birds and The Time Machine are some of his best leading roles. Good stuff.
Hey, HOW COULD I DOUBT YOU, Especially about movies……………….SO SORRY!!!
Hey Awesome BERN1960…..glad you see the light….lol.