Larry Taylor (actor)
Larry Taylor | |
|---|---|
Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1946–1995 |
Larry Taylor (13 July 1918 – 6 August 2003) was an English actor and stuntman.[1][2] He spent a dozen years in the army before World War II. After demobilization he got a job in the film industry.[3] He was the father of Rocky Taylor.[4] Taylor mainly played villainous supporting roles in dozens of UK films and television episodes from the 1950s until the early 1970s, when he moved to South Africa in the mid-1970s, and from then on he appeared in a mixture of international movies filmed there and domestic South African films and television episodes.
Selected filmography
- The Captive Heart (1946) - Sergeant (uncredited)
- No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) - Cop (uncredited)
- Silent Dust (1949) - Lorry driver in flashback sequence (uncredited)
- The Glass Mountain (1949) - Sleeping Man (uncredited)
- Cardboard Cavalier (1949) - Rider (uncredited)
- The Case of Charles Peace (1949) - Prison Guard on train (uncredited)
- Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949) - Nick
- Diamond City (1949) - Digger (uncredited)
- Laughter in Paradise (1951) - Card Player (uncredited)
- Wings of Danger (1952) - O'Gorman, henchman (uncredited)
- Lady in the Fog (1952) - Hospital Attendant (uncredited)
- The Gambler and the Lady (1952) - Shadow (uncredited)
- Three Steps to the Gallows (1953) - Sam
- Sea Devils (1953) - Blasquito
- Johnny on the Run (1953) - Bert (uncredited)
- Take a Powder (1953) - Spike
- Johnny on the Spot (1954) - (uncredited)
- Five Days(1954) - Tough in Bar (uncredited)
- Breakaway (1955) - Second Kidnapper (uncredited)
- Cloak Without Dagger (1956) - Sergeant Blake
- Alexander the Great (1956) - Perdiccas
- Port Afrique (1956) - the First Arab
- You Pay Your Money (1957) - 2nd. Thug
- Kill Me Tomorrow (1957) - Carson
- Robbery Under Arms (1957) - Burke
- The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958) - Cropped Harry
- Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) - German Soldier on Train (uncredited)
- Wonderful Things! (1958) - Minor Role (uncredited)
- A Night to Remember (1958) - Seaman (uncredited)
- The Gun Runners (1958) - (uncredited)
- The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) - The Gun Guard
- The Man Who Liked Funerals (1959) - Maxie
- First Man Into Space(1959) - Shore Patrolman - Taylor
- The Bandit of Zhobe (1959) - Ahmed
- Two Way Stretch(1960) - Rockingham Quarry Prison Warder (uncredited)
- The Shakedown (1960) - 2nd Thug
- And the Same to You (1960) - Chappy Tuck
- Too Hot to Handle (1960) - Mouth
- The Criminal (1960) - Charles
- Swiss Family Robinson (1960) - Battoo - Pirate
- The Professionals (1960) - Cairns
- The Bulldog Breed (1960) - Fraser (uncredited)
- She'll Have to Go (1961) - Train Driver
- The Singer Not the Song (1961) - Gang Member (uncredited)
- The Long Shadow (1961) - Heinz
- Information Received (1961) - Darnell
- Never Back Losers (1961) - Reilly
- Crosstrap (1962) - Peron
- K.I.L. 1 (1962)
- Nudes of All Nations (1962) - Villager (uncredited)
- In Search of the Castaways (1962) - Ayerton Hijacker One (uncredited)
- On the Beat (1962) - O'Flynn's Henchman (uncredited)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Turkish Soldier (uncredited)
- Time to Remember (1962) - Garritty
- That Kind of Girl (1963)
- Cleopatra (1963) - Roman Officer (uncredited)
- The Girl Hunters (1963) - The Dragon
- The Man Who Finally Died (1963) - Ernst (uncredited)
- Zulu (1964) - Hughes
- King and Country (1964) - Sergeant Major
- The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) - Swordsman (uncredited)
- Young Cassidy (1965) - 2nd Theatre Thug (uncredited)
- The High Bright Sun (1965) - Minor Role (uncredited)
- The Intelligence Men (1965) - Stagehand (uncredited)
- Judith (1966)
- Arabesque(1966) - Beshraavi's Henchman (uncredited)
- Kaleidoscope (1966) - Dominion Chauffeur
- The Magnificent Two (1967) - Paco
- Follow That Camel (1967) - Riff
- Casino Royale (1967) - Russian Officer / Cowboy (uncredited)
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968) - Thug in Daydream (uncredited)
- Carry On Up the Khyber (1968) - Burpa at Door-Grid (uncredited)
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - Lieutenant
- The File of the Golden Goose (1969) - Thug
- The Best House in London (1969) - Toff (uncredited)
- One More Time (1970) - Man In pub (uncredited)
- The Wife Swappers (1970) - Leonard
- A Promise of Bed (1970) - Policeman
- The Last Valley (1971) - Garnak
- Kidnapped (1971) - (uncredited)
- Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) - Laird (uncredited)
- Nobody Ordered Love (1972) - Camera operator
- Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) - Man at Bare Knuckle Fight (uncredited)
- Ooh… You Are Awful (1972) - Hood
- Psychomania (1973) - Lorry Driver (uncredited)
- Thriller (1973 Episode: An Echo of Theresa) - Sagar
- The Creeping Flesh (1973) - 1st Warder
- And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) - Bearded drunk
- The MacKintosh Man(1973) - Inmate (uncredited)
- S*P*Y*S (1974) - Lippet's Bodyguard
- Carry On Dick (1974) - Tough man
- De Wet's Spoor (1975) - Troop Sgt. Phillips
- One Away (1976) - Foreman
- My Way II (1977)
- Golden Rendezvous (1977) - an Attacker
- Mister Deathman (1977) - Vlees / Vlees' Twin
- Slavers (1978) - Captain George Williams
- Zulu Dawn (1979) - Grenadier (uncredited)
- Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983) - Vosk
- Stoney: The One and Only (1984) - Fight announcer
- Go for the Gold (1984) - Desk clerk
- Gor (1987) - King Marlenus
- An African Dream (1987) - Arthur Sharp
- Skeleton Coast (1988) - Robbins
- Outlaw of Gor (1988) - Marlenus
- Lethal Woman (1988) - General Grant
- Out on Bail (1989) - Judge Creighton
- Burndown (1990) - Chuck
- The Mangler (1995) - Sheriff Hughes (final film role)
References
- ^ "Larry Taylor". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016.
- ^ "Larry Taylor | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
- ISBN 9780953192663– via Google Books.
- ISBN 9781910561034– via Google Books.
External links
- Larry Taylor at IMDb
- Larry Taylor(Aveleyman)