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Larry Taylor

Acting

Born July 13, 1918 · Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Died August 6, 2003

Biography

Larry Taylor was an English actor and stuntman. He spent twelve years in the British army before World War II. After demobilization he got a job in the film industry. He was the father of Rocky Taylor. 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.

Filmography38 titles

The Avengers

1961as Freeman

UFO

1970as Mexican Bandit

The Prisoner

1967as Mexican Sam

Operation Conspiracy

1956as Sgt. Blake

Zulu

1964as Hughes

The Saint

1962as Ashok

Danger Man

1960as Henri

King & Country

1964as Sergeant Major

Cleopatra

1963as Roman Officer (uncredited)

Swiss Family Robinson

1960as Pirate

Captain Horatio Hornblower

1951Stunts

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

1968as Lieutenant

Two-Way Stretch

1960as Rockingham Quarry Prison Warder (uncredited)

Carry on Up the Khyber

1968as Burpa at Door-Grid (uncredited)

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

1958as The Gun Guard

Three on a Spree

1961as Large Man

The Concrete Jungle

1960as Charles

The Captive Heart

1946as Sergeant (uncredited)

Arabesque

1966as Mustapha

Zulu Dawn

1979as Grenadier (uncredited)

The MacKintosh Man

1973as Inmate (uncredited)

The Gun Runners

1958

Alexander the Great

1956as Perdiccas

The Creeping Flesh

1973as Chief Asylum Warder

And Now the Screaming Starts!

1973as Bearded Drunk

And the Same to You

1960as Chappy Tuck

Sea Devils

1953as Blasquito

The File of the Golden Goose

1969as Thug

The Girl Hunters

1963as Dragon

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

1964as Swordsman (uncredited)

Breakaway

1956as Second Kidnapper

Robbery Under Arms

1957as Burke

Crosstrap

1962as Peron

Too Hot to Handle

1960as Mouth

Skeleton Coast

1988as Robbins

Gor

1987as King Marlenus

Prisoners of the Lost Universe

1983as Vosk

Outlaw of Gor

1988as Marlenus