Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor

American actor (1911–1969)
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Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor and singer who was one of the most popular leading men of his time.

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Robert Taylor was born on Saturday, 5 August 1911 in Filley, Nebraska. His full name at birth was Spangler Arlington Brugh. He was best known as an actor. Taylor's country of citizenship (nationality) was American. He died on Sunday, 8 June 1969 in Santa Monica, CA at the age of 57. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Robert attended high school at Beatrice High School. For university, he studied at Doane College. Politically, he was affiliated with the Republican (United States). He was 5' 11" (180 cm) tall with an athletic build. He had blue eyes and black hair (color). His zodiac star sign was Leo.

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Full name at birth
Spangler Arlington Brugh
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Date of birth
5 August 1911
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Place of birth
Filley, Nebraska
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Date of death
8 June 1969
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Age
57 (age at death)
Place of death
Santa Monica, CA
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Cause of death
Lung Cancer
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Resting place
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
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Actor
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5' 11" (180 cm)
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Jack (Irish Setter - Dog 1936)
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Robert Taylor Ranch
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High school
Beatrice High School
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University
  • Doane College
  • Pomona College
  • Neely Dixon Dramatic School
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  • After Taylor`s battle with lung cancer was publicly disclosed in the autumn of 1968, he admitted in interviews that he had started smoking in his early teens, and had often smoked three packets of cigarettes a day as an adult.
  • He starred in the first pro-Indian movie of the American cinema: Devil`s Doorway (1950) first Anthony Mann`s western, although Broken Arrow (1950) was released one month before. Devil`s Doorway was completed first but held back from release due to the nervousness of MGM`s studio brass over the subject matter.
  • After their divorce, his wife Barbara Stanwyck auctioned off the $100,000 large home at 423 North Faring Road, in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles, and all its furnishings, and collected 15 percent of Taylor`s earnings until he died in 1969.
  • Robert Taylor was terribly keen on classical music, learning appreciated by among others Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo. He had a huge collection of first-class works. He was a music major from 1929 to 1931 playing the cello in Doane String Quartet, the trio "The Harmony Boys" and in Doane Symphony Orchestra in Nebraska. In California he used to have a gramophone with him that he would play every time he could on set filming and he never missed the concerts given each year at the Hollywood Bowl.
  • In a feature in the May 21, 1961 Family Weekly magazine, Taylor stated he became a hunter during his more mature years after he met actor Gary Cooper at Sun Valley, Idaho in 1939. Occasional hunting companions of note were novelist Ernest Hemingway and actors Wallace Beery, Clark Gable, Robert Stack and John Wayne.

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