Rod Taylor, star of The Birds, dies aged 84
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Rod Taylor, star of The Birds, dies aged 84
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 Lynn   Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 
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R.I.P. Rod Taylor Australian actor Rod Taylor, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller The Birds, has died aged 84, according to reports in the US. Taylor, who lived in the United States, is said to have died at his home in Los Angeles after a dinner party. He came to prominence in the 1960s, starring alongside Hollywood greats like Jane Fonda and Richard Burton. In 2009, he made a cameo as ex-UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds. He got his first leading role in the 1960 adaptation of HG Wells' science-fiction classic The Time Machine and went on to star in several hit films in the 1960s and 1970s. He also voiced one of the Dalmatian dogs in Disney's animated hit 101 Dalmatians. ID: 1626295 ·  |
TimeLord04  Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23
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Mike  Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 
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RIP With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. ID: 1626364 · |
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Gordon Lowe  Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0
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Loved him in The Time Machine.  The mind is a weird and mysterious place
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Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80
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Loved him in The Time Machine. +100 With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. ID: 1626421 · |
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Sirius B   Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 
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R.I.P Rod. I liked him in The Time Machine, Dark of the Sun & Frederick Forsyth's Cry of the Innocent. ID: 1626517 · |
BladeD  Send message Joined: 9 Aug 11 Posts: 13320 Credit: 1,603,919 RAC: 2
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R.I.P. 
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