Larry Taylor (actor)


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.

Selected filmography

The Captive Heart - Sergeant No Orchids for Miss Blandish - Cop Silent Dust - Lorry driver in flashback sequence The Glass Mountain - Sleeping Man Cardboard Cavalier - Rider The Case of Charles Peace - Prison Guard on train Dick Barton Strikes Back - NickDiamond City - Digger Laughter in Paradise - Card Player Wings of Danger - O'Gorman, henchman Lady in the Fog - Hospital Attendant The Gambler and the Lady - Shadow Three Steps to the Gallows - SamSea Devils - BlasquitoJohnny on the Run - Bert Take a Powder - SpikeJohnny on the Spot - Five Days - Tough in Bar Breakaway - Second Kidnapper Cloak Without Dagger - Sergeant BlakeAlexander the Great - PerdiccasPort Afrique - the First ArabYou Pay Your Money - 2nd. ThugKill Me Tomorrow - CarsonRobbery Under Arms - BurkeThe Gypsy and the Gentleman - Cropped HarryCarve Her Name with Pride - German Soldier on Train Wonderful Things! - Minor Role A Night to Remember - Seaman The Gun Runners - The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw - The Gun GuardThe Man Who Liked Funerals - MaxieFirst Man Into Space - Shore Patrolman - TaylorThe Bandit of Zhobe - AhmedTwo Way Stretch - Rockingham Quarry Prison Warder The Shakedown - 2nd ThugAnd the Same to You - Chappy TuckToo Hot to Handle - MouthThe Criminal - CharlesSwiss Family Robinson - Battoo - PirateThe Professionals - CairnsThe Bulldog Breed - Fraser She'll Have to Go - Train DriverThe Singer Not the Song - Gang Member The Long Shadow - HeinzInformation Received - DarnellNever Back Losers - ReillyCrosstrap - PeronK.I.L. 1 Nudes of All Nations - Villager In Search of the Castaways - Ayerton Hijacker One On the Beat - O'Flynn's Henchman Lawrence of Arabia Turkish Soldier Time to Remember - GarrittyThat Kind of Girl Cleopatra - Roman Officer The Girl Hunters - The DragonThe Man Who Finally Died - Ernst Zulu - HughesKing and Country - Sergeant MajorThe Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - Swordsman Young Cassidy - 2nd Theatre Thug The High Bright Sun - Minor Role The Intelligence Men - Stagehand Judith Arabesque - Beshraavi's Henchman Kaleidoscope - Dominion ChauffeurThe Magnificent Two - PacoFollow That Camel - RiffCasino Royale - Russian Officer / Cowboy Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush - Thug in Daydream Carry On Up the Khyber - Burpa at Door-Grid Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - LieutenantThe File of the Golden Goose - ThugThe Best House in London - Toff One More Time - Man In pub The Wife Swappers - LeonardA Promise of Bed - PolicemanThe Last Valley - GarnakKidnapped - Mary, Queen of Scots - Laird Nobody Ordered Love - Camera operatorLady Caroline Lamb - Man at Bare Knuckle Fight Ooh… You Are Awful - HoodPsychomania - Lorry Driver Thriller - SagarThe Creeping Flesh - 1st WarderAnd Now the Screaming Starts! - Bearded drunkThe MacKintosh Man - Inmate S*P*Y*S - Lippet's BodyguardCarry On Dick - Tough manDe Wet's Spoor - Troop Sgt. PhillipsOne Away - ForemanMy Way II Golden Rendezvous - an AttackerMister Deathman - Vlees / Vlees' TwinSlavers - Captain George WilliamsZulu Dawn - Grenadier Prisoners of the Lost Universe - VoskStoney: The One and Only - Fight announcerGo for the Gold - Desk clerkGor - King MarlenusAn African Dream - Arthur SharpSkeleton Coast - RobbinsOutlaw of Gor - MarlenusLethal Woman - General GrantOut on Bail - Judge CreightonBurndown - ChuckThe Mangler - Sheriff Hughes