Der am 11. Januar 1930 in Sydney geborene australische Schauspieler Rod Taylor (Bild) ist am 7. Januar 2015 in Los Angeles gestorben.
Foto: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rod_Taylor_-_1963.jpg
Der australische Schauspieler Rod Taylor, unter anderem bekannt aus Alfred Hitchcocks Film «Die Vögel», ist Medienberichten zufolge gestorben. (…) Taylor spielte in zahlreichen Filmen mit und war unter anderem in Quentin Tarantinos Kriegsstreifen «Inglourious Basterds» als britischer Premierminister Winston Churchill zu sehen.
chk/sda
http://www.derbund.ch/kultur/kino/VoegelSchauspieler-ist-tot/story/22283938
Taylor’s big breakthrough came with his starring turn in The Time Machine, director George Pal’s 1960 adaptation of the H. G. Wells 1895 sci-fi classic.
He also played the heroic Mitch Brenner in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic The Birds, coming to the aid of Tippi Hedren, and he starred opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in another 1963 release, The V.I.P.s.
Mike Barnes
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rod-taylor-star-birds-time-762144
«There are so many incredible feelings I have for him,» said Tippi Hedren, his co-star in «The Birds.»
«Rod was a great pal to me … we were very, very good friends,» she said. «He was one of the most fun people I have ever met, thoughtful and classy, there was everything good in that man.»
Faith Karimi
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/09/showbiz/rod-taylor-dead/
Mehr:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001792/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Taylor
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