Robert Taylor
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.
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PHOTOS
TV Series
The Merv Griffin Show
5.75
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
The Thin Man
7.6
Hondo
6.5
The Detectives
5.6
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Death Valley Days
6.4
What's My Line?
6.9
Death Valley Days
6.4
Movies
Rogue Cop
5.3
Quo Vadis
7.1
The Hoaxters
4.2
The Bribe
6.2
Party Girl
6.8
Ivanhoe
6.802
High Wall
6.2
Devil's Doorway
7
Johnny Eager
6.1
The Night Walker
6.6
Bataan
6.4
Waterloo Bridge
7.472
Broadway Melody of 1938
6.2
Personal Property
6.9
Camille
7.007
Broadway Melody of 1936
6.364
Undercurrent
5.8
The Law and Jake Wade
6.6
D-Day the Sixth of June
5.3
Ride, Vaquero!
5.9
Magnificent Obsession
7.4
Trifles of Importance
6
The Hangman
6.3
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
6.2
Knights of the Round Table
5.9
Above and Beyond
6.1
Many Rivers to Cross
6.2
The House of the Seven Hawks
6
When Ladies Meet
6.7
Conspirator
5.9
All the Brothers Were Valiant
5.9
Quentin Durward
6
Miracle of the White Stallions
5.8
The Fighting Lady
6.2
Saddle the Wind
6.5
Flight Command
5.636
Song of Russia
8
Westward the Women
7
Her Cardboard Lover
5.1
Stand by for Action
6.818
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
6
Small Town Girl
5.9
West Point of the Air
6
Three Comrades
7.1
The Youngest Profession
5.2
Escape
7.4
Savage Pampas
5
Hondo and the Apaches
6.8
The Gorgeous Hussy
5.3
Lady of the Tropics
6.1
Billy the Kid
4.775
Ambush
5.1
The Last Hunt
6.7
A Yank at Oxford
6.7
His Brother's Wife
5.6
Cattle King
6
The Secret Land
5.9
Buried Loot
6
Tip on a Dead Jockey
6.1
This Is My Affair
7.3
Stand Up and Fight
5.8
Valley of the Kings
4.8
Society Doctor
6.3
The Day the Hot Line Got Hot
5
Performers arrive in Hampshire
0
The Power and the Prize
5.5
Lucky Night
6.6
There's Always Tomorrow
8
Return of the Gunfighter
6.1
A House Is Not a Home
4.5
Remember?
5.8
Murder in the Fleet
5
Private Number
6.5
The Crowd Roars
6.5
Killers of Kilimanjaro
6
Johnny Tiger
0
Times Square Lady
6
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
7
That's Entertainment, Part II
6.855
The Big Parade of Comedy
6.3
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
6.7
I Love Melvin
6.2
The Fighting Lady's Family
0
The Glass Sphinx
6.3
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
5.7
A Wicked Woman
5
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
5.5
The Romance of Celluloid
7
From the Ends of the Earth
0
Hollywood Goes to Town
7
Rome, the Eternal City
0
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
5.917
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
0
The Spectacle Maker
5.6
Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1
0
Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2
0
Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1
0
Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly
0
Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1
0
Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2
0
Primary Flight Training: Landings
0
Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs
0
Screen Actors
6
Handy Andy
1
The Extraordinary Seaman
2.6
Lest We Forget
0
The Real Charlie Chaplin
7.5