Jack Taylor (American actor)

Jack Taylor (born George Brown Randall; October 21, 1936) is an American actor known best for featuring in many European low-budget exploitation movies of the 1970s, particularly several directed by Spanish moviemaker Jesús Franco.Template:Sfn Born in Oregon City, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, Taylor began acting onstage as a child. During the 1950s, he began appearing in small roles for Los Angeles-based television series before relocating to Mexico and featuring in several movies directed by Federico Curiel.

Taylor had several minor roles in movies during the early 1960s, including Cleopatra (1963) and Custer of the West (1966) before having the main role in Jesús Franco's Succubus (1968). Taylor relocated subsequently to Madrid, and appeared in numerous exploitation and horror movies there, including Count Dracula (1970), Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (also 1970), Female Vampire (1973), and Pieces (1982).

Taylor's later roles include 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate (1999), Daryush Shokof's A2Z (filmed 2004) and Miloš Forman's Goya's Ghosts (2006).

Early life

Taylor was born George Brown Randall on October 21, 1936 in Oregon City, Oregon, a suburb of Portland. He began acting as a child, first appearing in a stage production of Macbeth.

Career

He adopted the stage name Jack Taylor and began his acting career in small roles on 1950s American television shows such as The Jack Benny Program and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. He relocated to Mexico during the late 1950s and featured in a number of movies for director Federico Curiel, often featuring the Mexican characters Nostradamus the Vampire and the superhero Neutron. Reportedly, he relocated to Europe to appear in the movie Cleopatra (1963), but his small part was uncredited.

Taylor had a minor role in the international co-production of Robert Siodmak's Custer of the West (1966).

In 1967, Taylor began his prolific collaboration with Jesús Franco for the movie Succubus (1968, his first onscreen lead role) and Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970).Template:Sfn He went on to play Quincey Morris in the 1970 Franco opus Count Dracula alongside Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Soledad Miranda and Klaus Kinski, before appearing in many of Franco's softcore pornography movies, most famously Female Vampire (1973) with Lina Romay.

During this period, Taylor also featured with Spanish horror actor Paul Naschy in Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf (1971) and The Mummy's Revenge (1975) and worked for director Amando de Ossorio on three occasions, for The Ghost Galleon (1974), Night of the Sorcerers (1974) and The Sea Serpent (1985). He appeared in León Klimovsky's The Vampires Night Orgy (1972) and the Italian giallo movie Red Rings of Fear (1978). Juan Piquer Simón directed him in two movies, a Jules Verne adventure movie named Where Time Began (1978) and the gory cult movie Pieces (1982).Template:Sfn Taylor next appeared as a priest in John Milius' Conan the Barbarian (1982).

José Ramón Larraz directed Taylor in two other Spanish slasher movies: Rest in Pieces (1987) and Edge of the Axe (1988). He also had a supporting role in Ridley Scott's 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and later featured with Johnny Depp in Roman Polanski's horror movie The Ninth Gate (1999).

He next appears in André Téchiné's Loin (2001), and Miloš Forman's Goya's Ghosts (2006). Taylor had a supporting role in Son of Cain (2013), followed by Grand Piano (also 2013), featuring Elijah Wood and John Cusack.

Select filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1960	Neutron, the Man in the Black Mask
1960	Neutron vs. The Amazing Dr. Caronte
1960	Neutron vs. The Death Robots
1961	The Curse of Nostradamus
1962	Nostradamus, the Genie of Darkness
1962	Nostradamus, the Monster Demolisher
1963	Cleopatra	Caesar's Slave
1964	Tomb of the Pistolero	Herbert Brandon
1965	Fall of the Mohicans	Duncan Edward
1966	Custer of the West
1967	Agente Sigma 3 - Missione Goldwather	Charles Butler, Agent Sigma 3	Alternate title: Sigma 3
1968	Succubus	William Francis Mulligan	Alternate title: Necronomicon - Geträumte Sünden	Template:Sfn
1969	Nightmares Come at Night	Cynthia's Lover
1970	Count Dracula	Quincey Morris		Template:Sfn
1970	Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion	Mirvel		Template:Sfn
1971	Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf	Henry Jekyll		Template:Sfn
1972	The Vampires Night Orgy	Luis		Template:Sfn
1972		Dr. Mabuse aka Professor Farkas
1973	The Killer is One of Thirteen	Harlan
1973	Autopsy	Dr. Azcona
1973	Tender and Perverse Emanuelle	Michel Dreville
1973	Female Vampire	Baron Von Rathony
1974	The Ghost Galleon	Howard Tucker	Alternative title: Horror of the Zombies
1974	Night of the Sorcerers	Prof. Jonathan Grant		Template:Sfn
1975	The Mummy's Revenge	Prof. Nathan Stern		Template:Sfn
1975	Devil's Exorcist	Dr. Beneau / Michele
1977	Sexy Sisters	Dr. Charles
1977	Voodoo Passion	Jack Haus
1977	Where Time Began	Olsen
1978	Red Rings of Fear	Parravicino
1978	Nathalie: Escape from Hell	Lt. Erik Muller
1980	Vicious and Nude	Juan
1982	Pieces	Professor Arthur Brown		Template:Sfn
1982	Conan the Barbarian	Priest
1984	The Panther Squad	Frank Bramble
1985	Angel of Death	Aaron Horner
1985	The Sea Serpent	Asesino	Alternative title: Hydra
1987	Rest in Pieces	David Hume
1988	Edge of the Axe	Christopher Caplin
1988	Iguana	Captain 'Old Lady II'
1989	Fine Gold	Banquero 2
1992	1492: Conquest of Paradise	De Vicuña
1999	Presence of Mind	Father
1999	The Ninth Gate	Victor Fargas		Template:Sfn
2001	Loin	James
2004	The Birthday	Ron Fulton
2004	A2Z
2010	Agnosía	Meissner
2013	Son of Cain	Andrew Holsteter
2013	Grand Piano	Patrick Godureaux
2013	Presentimientos (Inside Love)	Abel
2014	Wax	Dr. Knox

External links

• Template:Trim/ Jack Taylor at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidata