Robert Taylor

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

115

Movies

110

Born: August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969
From: 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.

Works

110 films

Waterloo Bridge

19407.5

Quo Vadis

19517.1

Ivanhoe

19526.8

Party Girl

19586.8

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

19916.5

Camille

19367.0

Undercurrent

19465.9

Buried Loot

19356.4

Knights of the Round Table

19536.0

Westward the Women

19517.0

Return of the Gunfighter

19676.1

Society Doctor

19357.3

Ride, Vaquero!

19536.1

The Law and Jake Wade

19586.7

Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly

1945

Song of Russia

19446.2

The Youngest Profession

19435.3

That's Entertainment, Part II

19767.0

Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2

1945

The Night Walker

19646.6

D-Day the Sixth of June

19565.3

The Gorgeous Hussy

19365.5

The Hangman

19596.5

Conspirator

19495.8

Flight Command

19405.9

All the Brothers Were Valiant

19536.1

The Extraordinary Seaman

19693.4

Miracle of the White Stallions

19636.0

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

19977.7

Johnny Eager

19416.2

Saddle the Wind

19586.7

Rogue Cop

19545.7

The Real Charlie Chaplin

20217.6

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

19405.8

Times Square Lady

19357.0

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

19686.1

High Wall

19476.4

His Brother's Wife

19365.8

The Big Parade of Comedy

19647.2

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

Bataan

19436.4

Three Comrades

19387.3

The Bribe

19496.3

Above and Beyond

19536.2

Recoil

1963

Cattle King

19636.3

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

19356.1

Private Number

19366.7

Many Rivers to Cross

19556.5

The Romance of Celluloid

19377.0

Lady of the Tropics

19396.5

Devil's Doorway

19506.9

A Yank at Oxford

19386.7

Hondo and the Apaches

19677.2

Escape

19407.5

When Ladies Meet

19416.9

Valley of the Kings

19544.9

Billy the Kid

19415.3

Stand Up and Fight

19396.0

There's Always Tomorrow

19348.0

Quentin Durward

19555.8

Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs

1945

Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense

1944

Stand by for Action

19427.0

Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1

1945

The Last Hunt

19566.9

A House Is Not a Home

19644.8

Small Town Girl

19366.0

Savage Pampas

19665.3

The Hoaxters

19525.3

Ambush

19505.4

Broadway Melody of 1938

19376.6

The Day the Hot Line Got Hot

19685.5

Broadway Melody of 1936

19356.5

Hollywood Goes to Town

19387.0

Killers of Kilimanjaro

19596.3

I Love Melvin

19536.2

Her Cardboard Lover

19424.9

Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2

19458.0

The Power and the Prize

19566.3

The House of the Seven Hawks

19596.1

Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo

20143.0

The Fighting Lady

19446.5

Murder in the Fleet

19356.6

The Secret Land

19485.9

From the Ends of the Earth

19395.0

West Point of the Air

19357.0

This Is My Affair

19377.3

Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1

1945

Remember?

19396.0

Screen Actors

19506.3

The Crowd Roars

19387.0

Tip on a Dead Jockey

19576.6

Magnificent Obsession

19357.4

Garbo, by Joan Crawford

19696.0

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

19406.8

Handy Andy

19345.5

Personal Property

19376.9

Lest We Forget

19377.0

The Glass Sphinx

19677.0

Lucky Night

19396.8

A Wicked Woman

19345.0

Trifles of Importance

19407.5

Primary Flight Training: Landings

1945

Johnny Tiger

19667.0

Rome, the Eternal City

1951

The Spectacle Maker

19346.3

Performers Arrive in Hampshire

1947

The Fighting Lady's Family

1950

Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1

19459.0