Rod Taylor
Taylor in The V.I.P.s, (1963)
Born	Rodney Sturt Taylor (1930-01-11)11 January 1930 Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia
Died	7 January 2015(2015-01-07) (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Heart attack
Education	Parramatta High School
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1951–2015
Spouse(s)	Peggy Williams ​ (m. 1951⁠–⁠1954)​ Mary Hilem ​ (m. 1963⁠–⁠1969)​ Carol Kikumura ​ (m. 1980⁠–⁠2015)​ (his death)
Children	Felicia Taylor (born 1964)

Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor (11 January 1930^[1] – 7 January 2015^[2]) was an Australian actor of movie and television. He appeared in over 50 movies, including leading roles in The Time Machine, Seven Seas to Calais, The Birds, Sunday in New York, Young Cassidy, Dark of the Sun, The Liquidator, and The Train Robbers.

Taylor suffered a heart attack and died on 7 January 2015 in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 84.^[3]

Taylor has had several lead roles in television, from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Among his TV shows are:

• The Twilight Zone (1959, CBS)
• Hong Kong with co-star Lloyd Bochner (1960, ABC)
• Bearcats! (1971, CBS)
• The Oregon Trail as Evan Thorpe, a widower taking his three children from their Illinois farm to the Pacific Northwest by way of the Oregon Trail (1977, NBC)
• Masquerade (1983)
• Outlaws (1986)

• Rod Taylor on IMDb