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2 unusual facts about Rod Taylor


Boysie Oakes

The first novel in the series, The Liquidator, was made into a feature film of the same name in 1965, starring Rod Taylor as Boysie Oakes.

Minimum Interval Takeoff

The scene involves Colonels James Caldwell (played by Rock Hudson) and Hollis Farr (played by Rod Taylor) standing a few thousand feet down the runway, and watching B-52 Stratofortresses take off at fifteen second intervals.


Cry of the Innocent

Cry of the Innocent is a 1980 American-Irish television film directed by Michael O'Herlihy and starring Rod Taylor, Joanna Pettet and Nigel Davenport.

Danielle Steel's 'Palomino'

A subplot involves a romance between characters played by Rod Taylor and Eva Marie Saint, who acted together years earlier in Raintree County (1957) and 36 Hours (1964).

Family Flight

The film stars Rod Taylor and centers on a family whose plane crash-lands in the Baja California peninsula.

Inland with Sturt

Inland with Sturt marked the first film appearance for Rod Taylor, who, although he played George Macleay, was actually related to Charles Sturt through his father; he was Sturt's great-great grandnephew.

Maura McGiveney

McGiveney earned a Golden Globe nomination from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as Most Promising Newcomer of 1966 for her role as Claire Hackett in the farce Do Not Disturb with Doris Day and Rod Taylor.

The Houndcats

The show bears some similarity and may have been inspired by the Western-action-adventure TV series Bearcats, which featured Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole as mercenaries roaming the turn of the century Old West in their Stutz Bearcat in search of fortune and adventure.

The Picture Show Man

He has to deal with the rebelliousness of his son (Harold Hopkins) and a rival American exhibitor (Rod Taylor).

Whit Bissell

Thirty-three years later, in 1993 the documentary film Time Machine: The Journey Back, reunited Bissell with Rod Taylor and Alan Young from the original film, he recreated his role as Walter in the opening sequence.


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