ROD TAYLOR never fucked his co-stars

Rod was also on Falcon Crest and he never fucked us either!

Maybe he was a professional and didnt believe in fucking around with work associates. Not everyone is an insecure whore that has to bed everyone they come in contact with to prove themselves.

Because he was 'hot' for about eight years or so. His looks tanked fast after 1970 thanks to his heavy drinking.

He also beat his women.

[quote] why all those ladies weren't tempted.

The OP has imagined all of this hypothesis.

[quote] His looks tanked fast after 1970

Stephen Boyd tanked fast after ten years of gorgeousness.

Not every man in Hollywood behaves like Harvey.

Randolph Scott tanked fast after fifteen years.

More like five R7.

Raquel Welch knows the answer.

"Fucking your co-stars" is such a vulgar way to look at it, OP.

I prefer to think about it as exploring the dynamic arc of one's character and inhabiting it fully.

I never tanked, bitches!

^ Cary tanked after 30 years and then he wore a copious amount of suntan make-up.

Actors with testosterone. Disgusting.

R13 What does he say at 1.06?

"The men here don't have a pack of nuts between them"?

For the record, and I know it gets tedious, but he never sucked my cock.

R9, Stephen Boyd's obviously fan-written Wikipedia entry doesn't mention that. I didn't know he was an early adopter - and abandoner - of Scientology.

^ That briefly-gorgeous man abandoned the Catholic cult to adopt another one.

Our Hot Rod was in a short-lived CBS action adventure/western series called Outlaws in 1986-1987. I watched it as a pre-teen. I believe it was on Saturday nights, same night as my other two favorite CBS series, Airwolf and Mike Hammer.

James Cagney and Charles Boyer are also rumored to have not screwed around on their wives.

Was Rod more into script girls?

R14, he says "pint of blood", I'm pretty sure.

I was under the impression that he and Maggie Smith had a *thing*.

R21 is correct

Rod Taylor is not in the film Giant OP.

Well, Rodney Taylor is.

Yeah, they had a thing.

He was an MGM Contract star and they dropped him when he lost his looks.

?

The V.I.P.s

[quote] Yeah, they had a thing.

R26 They appeared in two MGM movies but no one else has talked about this "thing" over the last half-century.

He was VERY hot in The Birds (1963).

Rod was as hot as Rock and James. He should have had a bigger part, so to speak.

Oh, that was some righteous D that Rod was packin'.

Momma ain't no fool, bitches.

Love old Rod in Welcome to Woop Woop. An utterly carefree performance.

R9 The hunky Stephen Boyd appears around the 15:00 mark. Besides Welch he worked with Doris Day, Sophia Loren, Yvette Mimieux, Dionne Warwick, Elke Sommer, Jill St. John, Susan Hayward, Jean Seberg and Bardot with whom he had a lifelong friendship. He was considered for the role of Bond in Dr. No (1962) and was replaced by Burton in Cleopatra when delays in production caused him to drop out.

R32 Englishwomen don't talk like that.

Perhaps it wasn't consummated, r29, but with all that goes on during the shooting of a film, well...

[quote]The intensity of Rod and Maggie’s on-screen relationship led several people who worked on the film to conclude that they were really falling in love.

Rod Taylor always came across onscreen as a fundamentally decent guy to me. Whether true or not, that's the impression he gave.

R34 Stephen Boyd was so fucking hot. Like gods, his eyes are so intense. Imagine that staring into your soul whilst fucking you?

My mother never missed an episode of Hong Kong because he was in it.

He was so hot in Glass Bottom Boat.

Boyd also appeared in The Best of Everything (1959) stolen by Joan Crawford

Rod's only child, Felicia Taylor, was arrested after a hit and run accident a week ago. She was also arrested for a DUI a few years ago.

She looks like old Rod with a bad wig.

R42 Jesus, is she the one who ran over the DLer on his bike? THAT WAS HIS DAUGHTER???

OP, unless you are starting a thread about our BILL TAYLOR or a RELATIVE of HIS, no need to capitalize all the letters of his name.

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[quote]stolen by Joan Crawford

that honor was shared with the disturbed sultriness of Suzy, r41.

He was AUSTRALIAN!

^ yes he was and never lost his Australian accent.

R47 He was the new Errol Flynn.

He wasn't going to score with Debbie Reynolds.

Rod actually had a very good American accent in some of his films. Btw, he had excellent chemistry with Maggie Smith in "The VIPs" and reteamed for "Young Cassidy". He was an excellent actor, and indeed, quite a good-looking guy. I love him in "Sunday in New York", probably the best romantic comedy from Broadway back then that still holds up and entertains as a film. His kiss for Jane Fonda when she wants him to have sex with her really seems like he's going for it. Of course, he stops when he finds out she's "a beginner" in the film. He's still very hot in it.

As a child, Rod lived at 40 Mary Street in Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia. Lidcombe is a western suburb of Sydney, not far from the Sydney Olympic Park.

With a name like "Rod" he probably banged everything within reach.

Charles Boyer was very devoted to his wife. He killed himself a few days after she died, not wanting to live without her.

R52 His family house at Lidcombe has been turned into what is locally referred to as a 'Wog Mansion'.

That and the surrounding suburbs are the playgrounds of those Lebanese migrants who are conducting a 20 year long session of mutual murder.

Rod plays Liz’s beau in Giant before she meets Rock. Very small part at the beginning of the film.

R39 Like mother, like son.

The link in r55 tells a very interesting story from gun-free welcoming Australia.

Why did Metro Goldwyn Mayer dump Rod Taylor?

[quote]Very small part at the beginning of the film.

He turns up again later when he marries her sister.

R60 'He's mine. now'.

At the end of his MGM career he did Zabriskie Point. The great Antonioni film which was a big studio bomb when the majors were trying to capture the youth market. It was too good and serious a film.

R16, I'd forgotten Boyd died SO YOUNG. Weird how some can smoke (and drink) for 60-70 years (hello Bette -- or George Burns) and yet Boyd, who was a heavy smoker, drops dead at 45.

[quote] ROD TAYLOR never fucked his co-stars

I wouldn't know but one of those trashy gossip websites (which lots of Dataloungers love) claims—

[quote] Rod became romantically involved with three of his 'Hong Kong' guest stars during the course of filming – Inger Stevens, Mai Tai Sing, and the lovely France Nuyen.

I remember him in Separate Tables.

Article about Rod and Ann-Margret.

Who did Boyd do and who did him?

I imagine Rod wanted to avoid the "drama" that goes along with fucking actresses. He was probably more into show girls and models and also enjoyed the immediate and passing gratification of the occasional script girl and young wardrobe mistress on his films.

[quote] r24 Rod Taylor is not in the film Giant

[quote]r25 Well, Rodney Taylor is.

You’re both wrong. It was our BILL TAYLOR!

That article reads like it was from 1962.

R55 R58, yes they were fun times in West Sydney. Big dick energy from them all. True Underbelly of society...at least they were only killing their own kind!!

R71 These Lebanese thugs are killing each other constantly,

The police are standing back hoping that both sides will eradicate each other and save the cost of imprisoning them.

R62 Zabriskie Point is a dud. Flat and arid like Death Valley where it was filmed.

^ I agree. I found it tedious.

It marked the end of his seven year contract with MGM.

Daughter Felicia looks like a square-jawed kinda gal. Married (to a man) briefly, no children

'Felicia'.

I've heard that name before.

But wasn't Rod's contract with MGM ending at the same time that all of MGM's long term contract players' contracts were ending? I think I read that the only star who stayed with MGM well into the 1960s was Debbie Reynolds. And, for that matter, all of the other studios were also letting go of their stable of stars by that time.

Well, I guess except for Warner Bros which had all those young TV stars under contract like Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Bob Conrad, Diane McBain, et. al.

I think by the 1960s most stars didn't want to be under long term contracts to any studio so I imagine Rod was happy to free lance and was certainly in high demand throughout the decade.

Rod and James Garner were my favorite male movie stars of the era. Men, not boys. And Clint Walker, too, though he never became much of a movie star.

R77 This site discusses his contract (at $450 a week).

Well, if that's the case, r79, he was probably thrilled to get out of his contract.

Rod's daughter, Felicia Taylor was an anchor on WNBC-4 in New York, the Financial News Network and CNN correspondent.

I was never a fan of Raquel Welch but that ugly gossip about the lovely, lost Stephen at R9 made me hate her.

[quote] Actors with testosterone. Disgusting.

R13 This cheap movie was aimed down to a particular audience.

R16, lmao, that Wiki fan page really wanted you to know how good-looking he was.

World Without End

R84 There's an Irish doco about him on Youtube.

It emphasises his Irish upbringing and his name (Bill Millar) but says NOTHING about his murky years in the mid-1950s.

He was groomed by a sleazy homosexual director named Brian Desmond Hurst who inspired a very ugly memoir called 'The Empress of Ireland'.

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Stephen Boyd was a [italic]married man!

"Some people have asked me whether I'm bisexual. In fact, I am trisexual. The Army, the Navy and the Household Cavalry." - Brian Desmond Hurst

I'd like to see these two men get physical.

Rod wasn't Rock's type, r90.

What about Bobby?

Bobby was a tasty little morsel, if you ask me.

[quote] His family house at Lidcombe has been turned into what is locally referred to as a 'Wog Mansion'.

Hardly looks like a mansion, wog or otherwise.

Was Bobby Darin cast in COME SEPTEMBER because he was married to Sandra Dee? Or is that where they met?

I loved his singing but was he a bankable movie star?

Bobby Darin gave a great dramatic performances in "Captain Newman, M.D." getting an Oscar nomination for it.

Sandra got Bobby and all I got was Eddie.

I think you're confusing your Connies, r97.

Nice pic of Rod's gonads.

Uh, r98...no.

r82 So I guess you won't be watching TCM today.

I get ya, r97. But Connie Francis was the Connie who lost Bobby to Sandy.

But Connie Stevens was the Sandra Dee wannabe.

You want boring Antonioni? Try The Red Desert, L'Avventura and L'Eclisse.

Zabriskie Point is North by Northwest in comparison.

He fucked Merle Oberon, according to Charles Higham and Roy Moseley. While they were on the set of HOTEL…

Zabriskie Point had the very hot and naked Mark Frechette. Very arty film. Nice vistas, though kind of slow-moving if I recall correctly.

MF

Were young men in the 1970s like Mark Frechette trying to style their hair to look like a wig? What was that about?

Were young men in the 1970s like Mark Frechette trying to style their hair to look like a wig? What was that about?

It looks like a wig because we combed it over our ears, r108.....and r109. You can't see a hairline.

Rod, Rod, Rod....his furry, hyper-masculine presence TRANSFORMED "The Birds." To think that Hitchcock's first choice was Cary Grant, who wanted too much money!!!!

That's quite the moose knuckle at R99.

R86 Stephen Boyd was “noticed” as an usher by Michael Redgrave at the Leicester Square Odeon.

Presumably ushered to the toilets….

R106 and virtually no dialog. He's Mark and Daria on the Dick Cavett Show. Frechette died in prison btw.

My god, that was painful, r114. Small wonder that Frechette eventually wound up in prison. Did Daria ever make any other films?

like pulling teeth R115. Daria is in the 1972 film⬇️⬇️⬇️

Interesting interview with Rod

Great interview, r112! What a mensch! What a hunk!!

[quote]Frechette died in prison on September 27, 1975, during an apparent weightlifting accident when a 150-pound barbell fell on his neck and he suffocated.

Rod is charming at R117.

He pings for me a little, whatever his romantic/sexual/marital history may have been.

Rod could have played a quite interesting James Bond, I think: sly, sexy, comic, smart.

He would have been better than some of the other post-Connery choices, at least.

Hunk

Rod could have played a quite interesting James Bond, I think: sly, sexy, comic, smart.

He did. I like this movie.

He pings in that delightful interview because he's just so clearly relaxed and confident in his sexuality. Mmmmmmmmmm.........

Mark Frechette reminds me of Randolph Mantooth.

Rod and Doris enjoyed consensual sex while filming "The Glass Bottom Boat" in late 1965, for a June 1966 release. Nothing had happened between them while filming "Do Not Disturb" at 20th Century Fox earlier in 1965 but when they reteamed, it happened with frequency.

I bet he fucked some of them. They probably are ashamed to admit it. Seems like he was a real asshole!

Just to add a little spice to this thread, when I was 16 I loved Taylor enough to join his fan club, me and about 487 middle-aged women. I watched “Hong Kong” on TV avidly, when he was still in the same shape as when I’d first seen him in “The Time Machine,” his best role.

Some years later, in 70’s New York, when I was closeted, and married to a woman, I spent an afternoon at the old Club Baths on 1st Ave., where I met Ken, a stocky Long Island State patrolman, on his day off. We had a great time. Then, while we took a break, for some reason, I mentioned Taylor. Ken smiled, and told me that, back in about 1960, when he had tried to be a model in L.A., he’d met Taylor at a cocktail party, and said they’d been fuck buddies for about a year.

I could see that. Ken and Rod were the same kind of stocky, masculine men. Bet they had fun. Ken and I sure did.

Make of that what you will.

R24: " Rod Taylor is not in the film Giant OP..,"

Thank you. I thought I was getting senile.

[quote] I didn't know he was an early adopter - and abandoner - of Scientology.

That handsome man at R16 was an Irish-Catholic and prone to absorb nutty cults.

[quote] Rod and Doris enjoyed consensual sex while filming "The Glass Bottom Boat" in late 1965.

Yes, R126, I'm sure you can say that in all honesty because you were holding the anchor on that day in late 1965.

[quote] James Cagney and Charles Boyer are also rumored to have not screwed around…

Cagney believed adultery was a sin.

Boyer may have believed the same but he was bald and prematurely withered at age 35.

This guy is similarly beefcake.

I don't believe it. They all fucked each other in the small community that was Hollywood back in the day. How many actors sucked off Rod is of more interest.

(r134) Other than Paul Lynde during the making of "The Glass Bottom Boat", none that I know of.

Lynde was amusingly referred to by the nickname "Hoover" as in vacuum cleaner, for his suction prowess.

(r133) Edson Stroll lived an openly gay lifestyle in Hollywood, refusing to present himself as a phony hetero.

r128

What have you heard about Hugh O'Brian?