Jack Taylor (actor)

Jack Taylor (born George Brown Randall; 21 October 1936) is an American actor.

Career

He first relocated to Mexico in the late 1950s/early 1960s, and later to Spain, where he has appeared in many films, mostly horror and cheesy exploitation pictures. He worked for such well-known Spanish horror film directors as Jesús Franco, Amando de Ossorio, Javier Aguirre, Juan Piquer Simon, Leon Klimovsky, Carlos Aured and Jose Ramon Larraz. He co-starred in films with many famous Mexican and European horror stars, such as Paul Naschy, Christopher Lee, Wolf Ruvinski, German Robles, Howard Vernon, Ray Milland, Soledad Miranda, Janine Reynaud, Lina Romay, Paul Muller, Klaus Kinski, Adrian Hoven, Helga Line, Herbert Lom and Maria Rohm. He shocked his fans in 1974 by appearing completely nude in Female Vampire (1974), a Jesus Franco horror film that contained many pornographic sequences. He impressively portrayed the character of Jaccussi in the lead role in A2Z by Daryush Shokof in 2004.

Filmography

• The Blood of Nostradamus (1959)
• Nostradamus, the Genie of Darkness (1959)
• Nostradamus and the Monster Demolisher (1959)
• The Curse of Nostradamus (1959)
• Neutron Vs The Amazing Dr. Caronte (1960)
• Neutron Vs The Death Robots (1960)
• Neutron, the Man in the Black Mask (1960)
• Necronomicon - Geträumte Sünden aka "Succubus" (1967, dir. Jesus Franco)
• Eugenie: The Story of her Journey into Perversion (1969, dir. Jesus Franco)
• Nightmares Come At Night (1969, dir. Jesus Franco)
• Count Dracula (1970, dir. Jesus Franco)
• Dr. Jekyll and the Wolfman (1971, co-starring Paul Naschy)
• The Killer is One of the Thirteen (1973, dir. Javier Aguirre)
• The Mummy's Revenge (1973, co-starring Paul Naschy)
• The Vampires' Night Orgy (1973, dir. Leon Klimovsky)
• El Buque Maldito aka "Horror of the Zombies" (1974, dir. Amando de Ossorio)
• La Comtesse Noire aka "Female Vampire" (1974, dir. Jesus Franco)
• The House of Lost Girls (1974)
• Night of the Sorcerers (1974, dir. Amando de Ossorio)
• Sexy Sisters (1977, dir. Jesus Franco)
• Call of the Blonde Goddess aka "Voodoo Passion" (1977, dir. Jesus Franco)
• Where Time Began (1977, dir. Juan Piquer Simon)
• The Devil's Exorcist (1978)
• Enigma Rosso (1978) aka "Red Rings Of Fear" (made in Italy)
• Pieces (1981, dir. Juan Piquer Simón)
• Conan the Barbarian (1982, dir. John Milius)
• The Sea Serpent (1985, dir. Amando de Ossorio)
• Rest in Pieces (1987, dir. Jose Ramon Larraz)
• Edge of the Axe (1988, dir. Joseph Braunstein)
• The Ninth Gate (1999, dir. Roman Polanski)
• A2Z (2004, dir. Daryush Shokof)
• The Birthday (2004, dir. Eugenio Mira)
• Agnosía (2010)

External links

• Jack Taylor at the Internet Movie Database
• Jack Taylor at AllMovie