Long John Silver
Taylor was cast in a support role in a Hollywood film shot in Fiji, "His Majesty O'Keefe" (1954). The director, Byron Haskin, liked Taylor's performance and used him again as a pirate in "Long John Silver", and its television spinoff, "The Adventures of Long John Silver". His son Kit played Jim Hawkins. In 1954 he said his main hobbies were "a book and a bottle."