Larry Taylor (actor)

Larry Taylor (actor)
Larry Taylor (13 July 1918 – 6 August 2003) was an English actor and stuntman.
He spent a dozen years in the 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 (1946) - Sergeant (uncredited)
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) - Cop (uncredited)
Silent Dust (1949) - Lorry driver in flashback sequence (uncredited)
The Glass Mountain (1949) - Sleeping Man (uncredited)
Cardboard Cavalier (1949) - Rider (uncredited)
The Case of Charles Peace (1949) - Prison Guard on train (uncredited)
Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949) - Nick
Diamond City (1949) - Digger (uncredited)
Laughter in Paradise (1951) - Card Player (uncredited)
Wings of Danger (1952) - O'Gorman, henchman (uncredited)
Lady in the Fog (1952) - Hospital Attendant (uncredited)
The Gambler and the Lady (1952) - Shadow (uncredited)
Three Steps to the Gallows (1953) - Sam
Sea Devils (1953) - Blasquito
Johnny on the Run (1953) - Bert (uncredited)
Take a Powder (1953) - Spike
Johnny on the Spot (1954) - (uncredited)
Five Days (1954) - Tough in Bar (uncredited)
Breakaway (1955) - Second Kidnapper (uncredited)
Cloak Without Dagger (1956) - Sergeant Blake
Alexander the Great (1956) - Perdiccas
Port Afrique (1956) - the First Arab
You Pay Your Money (1957) - 2nd. Thug
Kill Me Tomorrow (1957) - Carson
Robbery Under Arms (1957) - Burke
The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958) - Cropped Harry
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) - German Soldier on Train (uncredited)
Wonderful Things! (1958) - Minor Role (uncredited)
A Night to Remember (1958) - Seaman (uncredited)
The Gun Runners (1958) - (uncredited)
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) - The Gun Guard
The Man Who Liked Funerals (1959) - Maxie
First Man Into Space (1959) - Shore Patrolman - Taylor
The Bandit of Zhobe (1959) - Ahmed
Two Way Stretch (1960) - Rockingham Quarry Prison Warder (uncredited)
The Shakedown (1960) - 2nd Thug
And the Same to You (1960) - Chappy Tuck
Too Hot to Handle (1960) - Mouth
The Criminal (1960) - Charles
Swiss Family Robinson (1960) - Battoo - Pirate
The Professionals (1960) - Cairns
The Bulldog Breed (1960) - Fraser (uncredited)
She'll Have to Go (1961) - Train Driver
The Singer Not the Song (1961) - Gang Member (uncredited)
The Long Shadow (1961) - Heinz
Information Received (1961) - Darnell
Never Back Losers (1961) - Reilly
Crosstrap (1962) - Peron
K.I.L. 1 (1962)
Nudes of All Nations (1962) - Villager (uncredited)
In Search of the Castaways (1962) - Ayerton Hijacker One (uncredited)
On the Beat (1962) - O'Flynn's Henchman (uncredited)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Turkish Soldier (uncredited)
Time to Remember (1962) - Garritty
That Kind of Girl (1963)
Cleopatra (1963) - Roman Officer (uncredited)
The Girl Hunters (1963) - The Dragon
The Man Who Finally Died (1963) - Ernst (uncredited)
Zulu (1964) - Hughes
King and Country (1964) - Sergeant Major
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) - Swordsman (uncredited)
Young Cassidy (1965) - 2nd Theatre Thug (uncredited)
The High Bright Sun (1965) - Minor Role (uncredited)
The Intelligence Men (1965) - Stagehand (uncredited)
Judith (1966)
Arabesque (1966) - Beshraavi's Henchman (uncredited)
Kaleidoscope (1966) - Dominion Chauffeur
The Magnificent Two (1967) - Paco
Follow That Camel (1967) - Riff
Casino Royale (1967) - Russian Officer / Cowboy (uncredited)
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968) - Thug in Daydream (uncredited)
Carry On Up the Khyber (1968) - Burpa at Door-Grid (uncredited)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - Lieutenant
The File of the Golden Goose (1969) - Thug
The Best House in London (1969) - Toff (uncredited)
One More Time (1970) - Man In pub (uncredited)
The Wife Swappers (1970) - Leonard
A Promise of Bed (1970) - Policeman
The Last Valley (1971) - Garnak
Kidnapped (1971) - (uncredited)
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) - Laird (uncredited)
Nobody Ordered Love (1972) - Camera operator
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) - Man at Bare Knuckle Fight (uncredited)
Ooh… You Are Awful (1972) - Hood
Psychomania (1973) - Lorry Driver (uncredited)
Thriller (UK TV series) (1973 Episode: An Echo of Theresa) - Sagar
The Creeping Flesh (1973) - 1st Warder
And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) - Bearded drunk
The MacKintosh Man (1973) - Inmate (uncredited)
S*P*Y*S (1974) - Lippet's Bodyguard
Carry on Dick (1974) - Tough man
De Wet's Spoor (1975) - Troop Sgt. Phillips
One Away (1976) - Foreman
My Way II (1977)
Golden Rendezvous (1977) - an Attacker
Mister Deathman (1977) - Vlees / Vlees' Twin
Slavers (1978) - Captain George Williams
Zulu Dawn (1979) - Grenadier (uncredited)
Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983) - Vosk
Stoney: The One and Only (1984) - Fight announcer
Go for the Gold (1984) - Desk clerk
Gor (1987) - King Marlenus
An African Dream (1987) - Arthur Sharp
Skeleton Coast (1988) - Robbins
Outlaw of Gor (1988) - Marlenus
Lethal Woman (1988) - General Grant
Out on Bail (1989) - Judge Creighton
Burndown (1990) - Chuck
The Mangler (1995) - Sheriff Hughes (final film role)
References
External links
Larry Taylor(Aveleyman)
1918 births
2003 deaths
Actors from Peterborough
British male film actors
British male television actors
British Army personnel of World War II
British emigrants to South Africa