Rod Taylor
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Australian-American actor
Why Is Rod Taylor Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rodney Sturt Taylor was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including Young Cassidy , Nobody Runs Forever , The Train Robbers and A Matter of Wife... and Death . 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.
