Jack Taylor (American actor)

For other people named Jack Taylor, see Jack Taylor (disambiguation).
Jack Taylor
Taylor in Succubus (1968)
Born
George Brown Randall

(1936-10-21) October 21, 1936 (age 88)
Oregon City, Oregon, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1960–2015

Jack Taylor (born George Brown Randall; October 21, 1936) is an American actor best known for starring in many European low-budget exploitation films of the 1970s, in particular several directed by Spanish cult filmmaker Jesús Franco.[1][2][3] Born in the Portland, Oregon suburb of Oregon City, Taylor began acting onstage as a child. In the 1950s, he began appearing in small roles on Los Angeles-based television series before moving to Mexico and starring in several films directed by Federico Curiel.

Taylor had several minor roles in films in the early 1960s, including Cleopatra (1963) and Custer of the West (1966) before having a lead role in Jesús Franco's Succubus (1968). Taylor subsequently relocated to Madrid, and appeared in numerous exploitation and horror films 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).

  1. ^ "Q&A: Jack Taylor". spanishfear.com. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
  2. ^ Belategui, Oskar (May 2, 2019). "Ser el malo siempre es mejor: la gente solo se acuerda de ti". El Correo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on May 5, 2019.
  3. ^ Weismann 2021, p. 118.