In 1951, he took part in a re-enactment of Charles Sturt's voyage down the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers, playing Sturt's offsider, George Macleay. Earlier in his career he had to support himself by working at Sydney's Mark Foy's department store, designing and painting window and other displays during the day. Taylor acquired extensive radio and stage experience in Australia, where his radio work included a period on Blue Hills and a role as Tarzan. He decided to become an actor after seeing Laurence Olivier in an Old Vic touring production of Richard III. For a time he worked as a commercial artist. His mother wanted him to be an artist, which pressured him into taking the art classes. Taylor attended Parramatta High School and later studied at the East Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College and took art classes. His middle name comes from his great-great-granduncle, Captain Charles Sturt, a British explorer of the Australian outback in the 19th century. Taylor was born on 11 January 1930 in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, the only child of William Sturt Taylor, a steel construction contractor and commercial artist, and Mona Taylor (née Thompson), a writer of more than a hundred short stories and children's books. His final film role was in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds in 2009, portraying a fictionalized version of Winston Churchill in a cameo. By the late 1990s, Taylor had moved into semi-retirement. In one of his most famous roles, he played Mitch Brenner in The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1963). He later starred in the Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), as Pongo. He started to gain popularity after starring in The Time Machine (1960), as H. He soon started acting in television films, such as Studio 57 (1954), where he played multiple different characters. He made his feature film debut in the Australian Lee Robinson film King of the Coral Sea (1954). At the time, he was also appearing in a number of theatre productions for Australia's Mercury Theatre. His first film role was in a re-enactment of Charles Sturt's voyage down the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers, playing Sturt's offsider, George Macleay. He began taking art classes in high school, and continued in college. Taylor was born in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, to a father who was a steel construction contractor and commercial artist and a mother who was a children's author. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including The Time Machine (1960), One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), The Birds (1963), and Inglourious Basterds (2009). Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor.
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