Personal Info
Birth date
1911-08-05 (114 Years)
Day of death
1969-06-08
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Filley, Nebraska, USA
Also known as
Роберт Тейлор
Lieut Robert Taylor USNR
Lt. Robert Taylor U.S.N.R.
Spangler Arlington Brugh
Robert Taylor
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Filmography
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Overview:
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.The Merv Griffin Show
6.222
Overview:
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.What's My Line?
6.9
Overview:
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.The Detectives
5.6
Overview:
The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture star Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television. Captain Matt Holbrook (Robert Taylor) is head of the detective division of a large metropolitan police force—a man whose devotion to duty, professional brilliance, and quick judgment are reflected in his 20-year career on the force. His aides, Lt. Johnny Russo (Tige Andrews), Lt. Otto Lindstrom (Russ Thorson), and Sgt. Chris Ballard (Mark Goddard) form a team that is both proficient and warmly human. The stories stress the interrelationships between the men as well as the solutions to crimes and the apprehension of criminals, adding a dimension of human drama to the excitement, action, and suspense inherent in each story of the detectives' difficult, sometimes thankless, and frequently dangerous assignments.The Thin Man
7.6
Overview:
Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and leave the good life. Unfortunately for the couple, Nick's past frequently caught up with him and got the couple involved in mystery after mystery. The series was based on the popular MGM series of movies of the 1930's starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk starred as the televison versions of Nick and Nora which ran on NBC for two seasons from 1957-59.Hondo
6.5
Overview:
Hondo is a 17-episode Western television series starring Ralph Taeger that aired in the United States on ABC during the 1967 fall season. The series was produced by Batjac Productions, Inc., Fenady Associates, Inc., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television.Quo Vadis
7.1
Overview:
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.Death Valley Days
6.4
Overview:
Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns continuing through August 1, 1975. The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all the former Death Valley Days hosts are now deceased.Ivanhoe
6.8
Overview:
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.Camille
6.971
Overview:
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.Waterloo Bridge
7.5
Overview:
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.The Law and Jake Wade
6.623
Overview:
Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by Hollister. It seems they were once in a gang together and Jake knows where the proceeds of a bank hold-up are hidden. Hollister and his sidekicks make off into the hills, taking along the trussed-up marshal and his kidnapped bride-to-be to force the lawman to show them where the loot is.Many Rivers to Cross
6.156
Overview:
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.The Hangman
6.265
Overview:
A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. However, the man is known and liked in the town, and the citizens band together to try to help him avoid capture.Westward the Women
7.026
Overview:
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.Saddle the Wind
6.515
Overview:
Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.Small Town Girl
5.9
Overview:
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.Return of the Gunfighter
6.1
Overview:
A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.Bataan
6.4
Overview:
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.Party Girl
6.8
Overview:
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.The Youngest Profession
5.2
Overview:
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.Cattle King
6.167
Overview:
A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.Killers of Kilimanjaro
6
Overview:
An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave traders and wild animals.Lady of the Tropics
6.1
Overview:
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.Song of Russia
8
Overview:
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.Broadway Melody of 1938
6.2
Overview:
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.Murder in the Fleet
5
Overview:
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
5.917
Overview:
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.Acting
2021The Real Charlie Chaplin as Unknown
1997Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self (archive footage)
1991Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
1976That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1969The Extraordinary Seaman as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows as Mr. Farriday: The 'In' Group
1968The Day the Hot Line Got Hot as Anderson
1967Hondo and the Apaches as Gallagher
1967Hondo (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1967The Glass Sphinx as Prof. Karl Nichols
1967Return of the Gunfighter as Ben Wyatt
1966Savage Pampas as Captain Martín
1966Johnny Tiger as George Dean
1964The Night Walker as Barry Moreland
1964The Big Parade of Comedy as Raymond Dabney in 'Personal Property' (archive footage)
1964A House Is Not a Home as Frank Costigan
1963Cattle King as Sam Brassfield
1963Miracle of the White Stallions as Col. Podhajsky
1962The Merv Griffin Show (1 Episode) as Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show (2 Episodes) as Self - Co-Host
1959The House of the Seven Hawks as John Nordley
1959The Detectives (97 Episodes) as Captain Matt Holbrook
1959Killers of Kilimanjaro as Robert Adamson
1959The Hangman as Mackenzie Bovard
1958Party Girl as Tommy Farrell
1958The Law and Jake Wade as Jake Wade
1958Saddle the Wind as Steve Sinclair
1957The Thin Man (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957Tip on a Dead Jockey as Lloyd Tredman
1956The Power and the Prize as Cliff Barton
1956D-Day the Sixth of June as Capt. Brad Parker
1956The Last Hunt as Charlie Gilson
1955Quentin Durward as Quentin Durward
1955Many Rivers to Cross as Bushrod Gentry
1954Rogue Cop as Det. Sgt. Christopher Kelvaney
1954Valley of the Kings as Mark Brandon
1953Knights of the Round Table as Lancelot
1953All the Brothers Were Valiant as Joel Shore
1953Ride, Vaquero! as Rio
1953I Love Melvin as Himself, Cameo Appearance in Judy's Dream
1953Above and Beyond as Lt. Col Paul W. Tibbets
1952The Hoaxters as Narrator (voice)
1952Death Valley Days (104, 1 Episode) as Self - Host, Shanghai Kelly
1952Ivanhoe as Wilfred of Ivanhoe
1951Westward the Women as Buck Wyatt
1951Quo Vadis as Marcus Vinicius
1951Rome, the Eternal City as Self
1950Devil's Doorway as Lance Poole
1950The Fighting Lady's Family as Narrator (voice)
1950Screen Actors as Self (uncredited)
1950What's My Line? (1 Episode) as Self - Mystery Guest
1950Ambush as Ward Kinsman
1949Conspirator as Major Michael Curragh
1949The Bribe as Rigby
1948The Secret Land as Narrator
1948The Ed Sullivan Show (2 Episodes) as Self
1947High Wall as Steven Kenet
1947Performers arrive in Hampshire as Self
1946Undercurrent as Alan Garroway
1945Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly as Lt. Taylor
1945Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2 as Lt. Taylor
1945Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2 as Lt. Taylor
1945Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1 as Instructor
1945Primary Flight Training: Landings as Lt. Taylor
1945Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1 as Lt. Taylor
1945Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1 as Lt. Taylor
1945Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs as Instructor
1944The Fighting Lady as Narrator
1944Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense as Lt. Robert Taylor
1944Song of Russia as John Meredith
1943Bataan as Sgt. Bill Dane
1943The Youngest Profession as Robert Taylor
1942Stand by for Action as Lieut. Gregg Masterman
1942Her Cardboard Lover as Terry Trindale
1941Johnny Eager as Johnny Eager
1941When Ladies Meet as Jimmy Lee
1941Billy the Kid as Billy Bonney
1940Flight Command as Ens. Alan Drake
1940Escape as Mark Preysing
1940A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
1940Trifles of Importance as Self (archive footage)
1940Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
1940Waterloo Bridge as Roy Cronin
1939Remember? as Jeff Holland
1939Lady of the Tropics as William 'Bill' Carey
1939From the Ends of the Earth as Self
1939Lucky Night as Bill Overton
1939Stand Up and Fight as Blake Cantrell
1938The Crowd Roars as 'Killer' McCoy
1938Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
1938Three Comrades as Erich Lohkamp
1938A Yank at Oxford as Lee Sheridan
1937The Romance of Celluloid as Self (archive footage)
1937Broadway Melody of 1938 as Steve Raleigh
1937This Is My Affair as Lt. Richard L. Perry
1937Lest We Forget as Himself
1937Personal Property as Raymond Dabney
1936Camille as Armand Duval
1936The Gorgeous Hussy as 'Bow' Timberlake
1936His Brother's Wife as Chris Claybourne
1936Private Number as Richard Winfield
1936Small Town Girl as Dr. Robert 'Bob' Dakin
1935Magnificent Obsession as Dr. Robert Merrick
1935La Fiesta de Santa Barbara as Self
1935Broadway Melody of 1936 as Robert Gordon
1935Murder in the Fleet as Lieutenant Tom Randolph
1935West Point of the Air as 'Jasky' Jaskarelli
1935Times Square Lady as Steve Gordon
1935Society Doctor as Dr. Ellis
1935Buried Loot as Albert 'Al' Douglas (uncredited)
1934A Wicked Woman as Bill Renton
1934There's Always Tomorrow as Arthur White
1934The Spectacle Maker as The Duchess's Paramour
1934Handy Andy as Lloyd Burmeister
Directing
1945Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2 ... Director
1945Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly ... Director
1945Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2 ... Director
1945Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1 ... Director
1945Primary Flight Training: Landings ... Director
1945Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1 ... Director
1945Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs ... Director
1945Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1 ... Director
1944Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense ... Director