Larry Taylor

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.

Known For

Riff

Follow That Camel

Tough in Bar

Paid to Kill

Grenadier (uncredited)

Zulu Dawn

Cairns

The Professionals

Pirate

Swiss Family Robinson

The High Bright Sun

Robbins

Skeleton Coast

Hood

Ooh...You Are Awful

King Marlenus

Gor

Leonard

The Wife Swappers

Second Kidnapper

Breakaway

Burke

Robbery Under Arms

Sergeant Major

King and Country

Sergeant (uncredited)

The Captive Heart

Thug

The File of the Golden Goose

Lieutenant

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Bearded Drunk

And Now the Screaming Starts!

Hospital Attendant (uncredited)

Lady in the Fog

Swordsman (uncredited)

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

Wonderful Things

Heinz

The Long Shadow

Shadow (uncredited)

The Gambler and the Lady

Vosk

Prisoners of the Lost Universe

Lippet's Bodyguard

S*P*Y*S

Blasquito

Sea Devils

Hughes

Zulu

General Grant

Lethal Woman

Marlenus

Outlaw of Gor

Mustapha

Arabesque

Vlees / Vlees' Twin

Mister Deathman

The Gun Runners

Paco

The Magnificent Two

Perdiccas

Alexander the Great

Carson

Kill Me Tomorrow

Mouth

Too Hot to Handle

The Gun Guard

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

Chappy Tuck

And the Same to You

Charles

The Criminal

Dragon

The Girl Hunters

Chief Asylum Warder

The Creeping Flesh

Reilly

Never Back Losers

Peron

Crosstrap

Ernst

The Man Who Finally Died

Dominion Chauffeur

Kaleidoscope

Sgt. Blake

Cloak Without Dagger

Large Man

Three on a Spree

Roman Officer (uncredited)

Cleopatra

Garnak

The Last Valley

Policeman

A Promise of Bed

Stagehand (uncredited)

The Intelligence Men

Tough Man

Carry On Dick

Gang Member (uncredited)

The Singer Not the Song

Second Thug

The Shakedown

O'Flynn's Henchman (uncredited)

On the Beat

Village Lout

Nudes of the World

Sammy

The Skin Game

Burpa at Door-Grid (uncredited)

Carry On Up the Khyber

First Arab

Port Afrique

Riff / Tough Man (archive footage) (uncredited)

That's Carry On!

Rockingham Quarry Prison Warder (uncredited)

Two-Way Stretch

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

60

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-07-13

Place of Birth

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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