Jack Taylor
Actor
- Born
- October 21, 1926 · Oregon City, Oregon, USA
- Died
- May 12, 2026 (age 99)
George Brown Randall (October 21, 1926 – May 12, 2026), known professionally as Jack Taylor, was an American actor known best for featuring in many European low-budget exploitation films of the 1970s, particularly several directed by Spanish filmmaker Jesús Franco.
Born in Oregon City, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, Taylor began acting onstage as a child. During the 1950s, he began appearing in small roles for Los Angeles-based television series before relocating to Mexico and featuring in several films directed by Federico Curiel.
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Taylor had several minor film roles during the early 1960s, including Cleopatra (1963) and Custer of the West (1966) before having a major role in Franco's Succubus (1968). Taylor relocated subsequently to Spain, 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). 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).
Known for
The Ninth Gate
August 25, 1999
Conan the Barbarian
March 16, 1982
1492: Conquest of Paradise
August 9, 1992
Goya's Ghosts
November 8, 2006
Pieces
August 23, 1982
The Return of the Musketeers
April 12, 1989
Count Dracula
April 3, 1970
The Ghost Galleon
June 28, 1974
Edge of the Axe
May 20, 1988
Female Vampire
June 5, 1973
Call of the Blonde Goddess
December 9, 1977
Eugenie
February 20, 1970
Acting95
- 2024Call Me Paul
- 2024Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S” as Self
- 2023Print the Legend as Narrator (voice)
- 2023The Concavenator Valley
- 2022Marauders from the Mediterranean: The Macabre Magic of the Spanish Zombie Film as Self
- 2019Abuelita / Granny as Emperor of Evil
- 2018Jack Taylor, testigo del fantástico
- 2017Drácula Barcelona as Himself
- 2015The Simón's Jigsaw: A Trip to the Universe of Juan Piquer Simón as Self
- 2015Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert