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Children. 3. Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor and singer who was one of the most popular leading men of cinema. 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 ...
Dec 5, 2023 · 1. He Was Under Their Control. As a hot young actor, the Hollywood studios liked to keep Robert Taylor snuggly under their arm. MGM liked to pair their pretty boy in films with powerful older women—and then they shockingly made him marry one. Sadly, Taylor now had two puppet masters to answer to: MGM and his wife.
Robert Taylor. Actor: The Bribe. Born Spangler Arlington Brugh, Robert Taylor began displaying a diversity of talents in his youth on the plains of Nebraska. At Beatrice High School, he was a standout track athlete, but also showed a talent for using his voice, winning several oratory awards. He was a musician and played the cello in the school orchestra. After graduating he thought of music ...
- August 5, 1911
- June 8, 1969
He founded his own production company, Robert Taylor Productions, in 1958 and moved comfortably into TV work. From 1959 to 1962, he was the star of the TV series The Detectives (1959) , and when Ronald Reagan bowed out of TV's popular western anthology Death Valley Days (1952) for a political career, Taylor took over as host and sometime actor (1966-1968) until his death from lung cancer at ...
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- Filley, Nebraska, USA
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- Santa Monica, California, USA
Aug 19, 2021 · By Ryan Ariano Aug. 18, 2021 7:26 pm EST. Robert Taylor has been acting professionally for over 30 years but he's only just reached that big open sky of American stardom by playing the lead role ...
- Ryan Ariano
May 29, 2016 · Abstract. Kelly provides the first academic study of classical Hollywood actor Robert Taylor, identifying him as a star who sustained a long and successful career during his lifetime, but not after it ended. As a result, Kelly calls Taylor an important ‘lost’ or forgotten star of the era, and considers what then makes an enduring star.
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Robert Taylor was born in Filley, Nebraska, on August 5, 1911, with the birth name of Spangler Arlington Brugh. His father, Spangler Andrew Brugh, was a grain farmer who, late in life, studied medicine and became a doctor, in order to treat and, eventually successfully cure his wife of a rare illness which she had had since childhood.
