Robert Taylor
Acting
- Born:
- 1911-08-05
- Died:
- 1969-06-08
- Place of birth:
- Filley, Nebraska, USA
Biography
Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor who was one of the most popular leading men of his time. Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won his first leading role the following year in Magnificent Obsession. His popularity increased during the late 1930s and 1940s with appearances in A Yank at Oxford (1938), Waterloo Bridge (1940), and Bataan (1943). During World War II, he served in the United States Naval Air Corps, where he worked as a flight instructor and appeared in instructional films. From 1959 to 1962, he starred in the ABC series The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. In 1966, he took over hosting duties from his friend Ronald Reagan on the series Death Valley Days. Taylor was married to actress Barbara Stanwyck from 1939 to 1951. He married actress Ursula Thiess in 1954, and they had two children. A chain smoker, Taylor was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 1968. He died of the disease on June 8, 1969 at the age of 57.
Known For
Filmography
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Yellowthread Street
That's Entertainment, Part II
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
The Extraordinary Seaman
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
The Day the Hot Line Got Hot
Hondo and the Apaches
Hondo
The Glass Sphinx
Return of the Gunfighter
Savage Pampas
Johnny Tiger
The Night Walker
The Big Parade of Comedy
A House Is Not a Home
Recoil
Cattle King
Miracle of the White Stallions
The Merv Griffin Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The House of the Seven Hawks
The Detectives
Killers of Kilimanjaro
The Hangman
Party Girl
The Law and Jake Wade
Saddle the Wind
The Thin Man
Tip on a Dead Jockey
The Power and the Prize
D-Day the Sixth of June
The Last Hunt
MGM Parade
Quentin Durward
Many Rivers to Cross
Rogue Cop
Valley of the Kings
Knights of the Round Table
All the Brothers Were Valiant
Ride, Vaquero!
I Love Melvin
Above and Beyond
The Hoaxters
Death Valley Days
Ivanhoe
Westward the Women
Quo Vadis
Rome, the Eternal City
Devil's Doorway
The Fighting Lady's Family
Screen Actors
What's My Line?
Ambush
Conspirator
The Bribe
The Secret Land
The Ed Sullivan Show
High Wall
Performers Arrive in Hampshire
Undercurrent
Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly
Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2
Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2
Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1
Primary Flight Training: Landings
Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1
Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1
Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs
The Fighting Lady
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
Song of Russia
Bataan
The Youngest Profession
Stand by for Action
Her Cardboard Lover
Johnny Eager
When Ladies Meet
Billy the Kid
Flight Command
Escape
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Trifles of Importance
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Waterloo Bridge
Remember?
Lady of the Tropics
From the Ends of the Earth
Lucky Night
Stand Up and Fight
The Crowd Roars
Hollywood Goes to Town
Three Comrades
A Yank at Oxford
The Romance of Celluloid
Broadway Melody of 1938
This Is My Affair
Lest We Forget
Personal Property
Camille
The Gorgeous Hussy
His Brother's Wife
Private Number
Small Town Girl
Magnificent Obsession
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Broadway Melody of 1936
Murder in the Fleet
West Point of the Air
Times Square Lady
Society Doctor
Buried Loot
A Wicked Woman
There's Always Tomorrow
The Spectacle Maker
Handy Andy