Larry Taylor (actor)
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.
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| Born | 13 July 1918 Peterborough, England  | 
| Died | 6 August 2003 (aged 85) | 
| Nationality | English | 
| Occupation | Actor | 
| Years active | 1946–1995 | 
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 (UK TV series) (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.
 - Zulu: With Some Guts Behind it: the Making of the Epic Movie. Tomahawk. 2005. ISBN 9780953192663 – via Google Books.
 - Records, Guinness World (10 September 2015). Guinness World Records 2016. Hoffmann und Campe. ISBN 9781910561034 – via Google Books.
 
External links
    
- Larry Taylor at IMDb
 - Larry Taylor(Aveleyman)
 
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