Larry Taylor

Larry Taylor (13 July 1918 – 6 August 2003) was an English actor and stuntman. He spent twelve years in the British 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 (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)