I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

During the mid-60s Taylor worked mostly for MGM his credits included Sunday in New York (1963) Fate Is the Hunter (1964 for 20th Century Fox) 36 Hours (1965) Young Cassidy (1965) The Liquidator (1965) and The Glass Bottom Boat (1966). Taylor attended Parramatta High School and later studied at the East Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. Shannon"
Walker Texas Ranger
Murder She Wrote
Falcon Crest


Theatre credits
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Independent 1950)
Home of the Brave by Arthur Laurents (Independent 1950)
Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw (John Alden Company 1951)
Twins by Plautus (Mercury 1952)
Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (Mercury 1952)
The Witch by John Masefield (Mercury 1952)
They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard (Mercury 1952)
The Happy Time by Samuel A.

He has appeared in over 50 films and is well known for his roles in the science fiction film The Time Machine (1960) and in the Alfred Hitchcock horror film The Birds (1963).