Robert Taylor
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.
120 acting credits · 9 directing credits
Acting · 120
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
What's My Line?
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Detectives
1959
MGM Parade
1955
The Thin Man
1957
Hondo
1967
Quo Vadis
1951
Death Valley Days
1952
Waterloo Bridge
1940
Ivanhoe
1952
Camille
1936
Yellowthread Street
1990
Knights of the Round Table
1953
Bataan
1943
Quentin Durward
1955
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940
Undercurrent
1946
The Night Walker
1964
Party Girl
1958
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
Saddle the Wind
1958
Small Town Girl
1936
The Hangman
1959
From the Ends of the Earth
1939
All the Brothers Were Valiant
1953
Cattle King
1963
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
1935
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Westward the Women
1951
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956
Private Number
1936
Escape
1940
Billy the Kid
1941
High Wall
1947
The Law and Jake Wade
1958
Broadway Melody of 1938
1937
Savage Pampas
1966
Return of the Gunfighter
1967
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938
Flight Command
1940
Ride, Vaquero!
1953
Hondo and the Apaches
1967
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
1968
The Last Hunt
1956
Devil's Doorway
1950
Many Rivers to Cross
1955
The Bribe
1949
Above and Beyond
1953
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
Johnny Eager
1941
Three Comrades
1938
Valley of the Kings
1954
Conspirator
1949
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
Rogue Cop
1954
Stand by for Action
1942
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
Remember?
1939
Screen Actors
1950
The Crowd Roars
1938
Handy Andy
1934
Ambush
1950
A Yank at Oxford
1938
Lady of the Tropics
1939
I Love Melvin
1953
Personal Property
1937
Lucky Night
1939
Broadway Melody of 1936
1935
Killers of Kilimanjaro
1959
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
The Power and the Prize
1956
Miracle of the White Stallions
1963
The Youngest Profession
1943
The Day the Hot Line Got Hot
1968
This Is My Affair
1937
Stand Up and Fight
1939
The Romance of Celluloid
1937
His Brother's Wife
1936
A House Is Not a Home
1964
A Wicked Woman
1934
The Spectacle Maker
1934
West Point of the Air
1935
The Hoaxters
1952
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
1969
Magnificent Obsession
1935
Murder in the Fleet
1935
The Glass Sphinx
1967
The Extraordinary Seaman
1969
There's Always Tomorrow
1934
Song of Russia
1944
Society Doctor
1935
Johnny Tiger
1966
Tip on a Dead Jockey
1957
The House of the Seven Hawks
1959
Buried Loot
1935
Trifles of Importance
1940
Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2
1945
Recoil
1963
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
1944
Lest We Forget
1937
Her Cardboard Lover
1942
Primary Flight Training: Landings
1945
When Ladies Meet
1941
The Secret Land
1948
Times Square Lady
1935
Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1
1945
Rome, the Eternal City
1951
Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs
1945
Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly
1945
The Fighting Lady
1944
Performers Arrive in Hampshire
1947
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
2014
Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1
1945
Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2
1945
Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1
1945
The Fighting Lady's Family
1950
Directing · 9
Primary Flight Training: First Flight, Part 2
1945
Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
1944
Primary Flight Training: Landings
1945
Primary Flight Instruction: Stearman N2-S Part 1
1945
Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs
1945
Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly
1945
Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 1
1945
Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2
1945
Primary Flight Training: Attitudes of Flight: Part 1
1945