Acting
Robert Taylor
Biography
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.
Movies with Robert Taylor
Quo Vadis
1951
Waterloo Bridge
1940
Ivanhoe
1952
Party Girl
1958
Undercurrent
1946
Camille
1936
The Night Walker
1964
Westward the Women
1951
Conspirator
1949
Saddle the Wind
1958
Hondo and the Apaches
1967
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
Society Doctor
1935
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956
Buried Loot
1935
Billy the Kid
1941
Recoil
1963
The Last Hunt
1956
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2
1945
Cattle King
1963
Above and Beyond
1953
Return of the Gunfighter
1967
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
Stand by for Action
1942
Remember?
1939
The Law and Jake Wade
1958
Devil's Doorway
1950
Ride, Vaquero!
1953
Knights of the Round Table
1953
I Love Melvin
1953
The Hangman
1959
Savage Pampas
1966
Song of Russia
1944
Three Comrades
1938
The Youngest Profession
1943
The Bribe
1949
Flight Command
1940
Many Rivers to Cross
1955
Small Town Girl
1936
Quentin Durward
1955
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
Screen Actors
1950
Bataan
1943
When Ladies Meet
1941
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
Valley of the Kings
1954
Broadway Melody of 1936
1935
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
A House Is Not a Home
1964
Lest We Forget
1937
A Yank at Oxford
1938
His Brother's Wife
1936
Private Number
1936
Johnny Eager
1941
Miracle of the White Stallions
1963
The Glass Sphinx
1967
The Extraordinary Seaman
1969
A Wicked Woman
1934
All the Brothers Were Valiant
1953
The Hoaxters
1952
High Wall
1947
Rogue Cop
1954
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
Escape
1940
Broadway Melody of 1938
1937
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
The House of the Seven Hawks
1959
Lucky Night
1939
Lady of the Tropics
1939
Ambush
1950
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
1968
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
Times Square Lady
1935
The Secret Land
1948
The Crowd Roars
1938
Stand Up and Fight
1939
Johnny Tiger
1966
Killers of Kilimanjaro
1959
The Day the Hot Line Got Hot
1968
Personal Property
1937
The Power and the Prize
1956
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
1944
The Fighting Lady
1944
Her Cardboard Lover
1942
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
2014
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
1969
This Is My Affair
1937
Murder in the Fleet
1935
Magnificent Obsession
1935
From the Ends of the Earth
1939
West Point of the Air
1935
Tip on a Dead Jockey
1957
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
1935
The Spectacle Maker
1934
Trifles of Importance
1940
The Romance of Celluloid
1937
Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly
1945
There's Always Tomorrow
1934
Performers Arrive in Hampshire
1947
Rome, the Eternal City
1951
Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs
1945
Handy Andy
1934
Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1
1945
Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1
1945
Primary Flight Training: Landings
1945
The Fighting Lady's Family
1950
Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1
1945
Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2
1945
