ACTOR

Rod Taylor

1930 - 2015

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Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including Young Cassidy (1965), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), The Train Robbers (1973) and A Matter of Wife... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rod Taylor has received more than 3,777,274 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Rod Taylor is the 992nd most popular actor (down from 905th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Australia and the 12th most popular Australian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Rod Taylors by language

Over the past year Rod Taylor has had the most page views in the with 459,816 views, followed by German (59,518), and Spanish (40,870). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (107.14%), Simple English (95.15%), and Latin (90.04%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Rod Taylor ranks 992 out of 13,578. Before him are Paul Muni, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, Jean Dujardin, Emilio Estevez, and Billy Crystal. After him are Helen McCrory, Lloyd Bridges, Daniel Olbrychski, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Gough, and Geneviève Bujold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Rod Taylor ranks 103. Before him are Harvey Milk, Itamar Franco, Mauro Ramos, Martin Karplus, José Sarney, and John Frankenheimer. After him are Sławomir Mrożek, Colin Dexter, Paul Veyne, Toru Takemitsu, Friedrich Gulda, and Sonny Rollins. Among people deceased in 2015, Rod Taylor ranks 76. Before him are Robert Loggia, Khaled al-Asaad, Kurt Masur, Dettmar Cramer, Licio Gelli, and Chandra Bahadur Dangi. After him are Árpád Göncz, Patrick Macnee, Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria, Cabu, Cynthia Lennon, and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Rod Taylor ranks 41 out of 1,143. Before him are John Noble (1948), Kylie Minogue (1968), Joan Sutherland (1926), Alan Jones (1946), Lisa Gerrard (1961), and Phil Rudd (1954). After him are Roy Emerson (1936), Johnny Logan (1954), Barry Marshall (1951), Eric Bana (1968), Jonathan Hyde (1948), and Liam Hemsworth (1990).

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Among ACTORS In Australia

Among actors born in Australia, Rod Taylor ranks 12. Before him are Heath Ledger (1979), Paul Hogan (1939), Errol Flynn (1909), Hugh Jackman (1968), Lionel Logue (1880), and John Noble (1948). After him are Eric Bana (1968), Jonathan Hyde (1948), Liam Hemsworth (1990), Judith Anderson (1897), Simon Baker (1969), and Cassandra Harris (1948).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Birds
Mitch Brenner
Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.
Mar 28o 19637.522 / 10
Inglourious Basterds
Winston Churchill
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Aug 19o 20098.2 / 10
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Pongo (voice)
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. In a Disney animation classic, Dalmatian Pongo is tired of his bachelor-dog life. He spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita's owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's old school friend Cruella De Vil wants to buy them all. Roger declines her offer, so Cruella hires the criminal Badun brothers to steal them -- so she can have a fur coat.
Jan 25o 19617.17 / 10