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Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor (August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor.
Born Spangler Arlington Brugh in Filley, Nebraska, he was the son of Ruth Adaline (née Stanhope) and Spangler Andrew Brugh, who was a farmer turned doctor. As a teenager, he was a track star and played the...
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High Wall
High Wall (1947) is a film noir, starring Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt from a screenplay by Sydney Boehm and Lester Cole, based on a play by Alan R. Clark and Bradbury Foote.
A man suffering...
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Party Girl
Party Girl is a 1958 film directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Robert Taylor and Cyd Charisse. Charisse performs two dance routines in the color gangster film. Party Girl marked the last film Robert Taylor did under contract for MGM.
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Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis is an epic 1951 film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S. N. Behrman and Sonya Levien, adapted from the classic 1895 novel Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz. The...
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The Last Hunt
The Last Hunt is a 1956 MGM western film directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Dore Schary. The screenplay was by Richard Brooks from a novel by Milton Lott. The music score was by Daniele Amfitheatrof and the cinematography by Russell Harlan....
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Undercurrent
Undercurrent (1946) is a film noir drama directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay was written by Edward Chodorov, based on the novel You Were There by Thelma Strabel. The motion picture features Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum,...
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Bataan
Bataan (1943) is a war film about the defense of the Bataan Peninsula at the start of World War II. It was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Tay Garnett and produced by Irving Starr, with Dore Schary as executive producer. It starred Robert...
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Broadway Melody of 1936
Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical film released by MGM in 1935, despite the title. It was a follow up of sorts to the successful The Broadway Melody, which had been released in 1929, although, beyond the title and some music, there is no story...
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All the Brothers Were Valiant
All the Brothers Were Valiant is a 1953 adventure drama film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). It is a remake of the 1923 silent film, also made by MGM and now considered lost, as well as the 1928 MGM version Across to Singapore. The 1953 version...
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Camille
Camille is a 1936 American romantic drama film directed by George Cukor and produced by Irving Thalberg and Bernard H. Hyman, from a screenplay by James Hilton, Zoe Akins and Frances Marion. The picture is based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame...
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Song of Russia
Song of Russia is a 1944 American war film made and distributed by MGM Studios. The picture was credited as being directed by Gregory Ratoff, though Ratoff collapsed near the end of the five-month production, and was replaced by László Benedek, who...
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Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe is a 1952 historical (Technicolor) film made by MGM. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The cast featured Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Finlay Currie and...
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Three Comrades
Three Comrades 1938 is a drama film directed by Frank Borzage and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for MGM. The screenplay is by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edward E. Paramore Jr., and was adapted from the novel Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque ...
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Broadway Melody of 1938
Broadway Melody of 1938 is a 1937 musical film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film is essentially a backstage musical revue, featuring high-budget sets and cinematography in the MGM musical tradition. The film...
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Knights of the Round Table
Knights of the Round Table is a Technicolor Cinemascope 1953 historical film made by MGM. Directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman, it was the first film in Cinemascope made by that studio. The screenplay was by Talbot Jennings,...
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The Adventures of Quentin Durward
The Adventures of Quentin Durward, known also as Quentin Durward, is a 1955 historical film released by MGM. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The screenplay was by Robert Ardrey, adapted by George Froeschel from...
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D-Day the Sixth of June
D-Day the Sixth of June is a 1956 romantic Cinemascope war film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry Koster and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Ivan Moffat and Harry Brown, based on the novel, The Sixth of June by...
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The Law and Jake Wade
The Law and Jake Wade is a 1958 western released by MGM and directed by the legendary John Sturges. The title name, Jake Wade (Taylor) is a now reformed town sherrif marshal with a past that will soon catch up with him. Before he is able to settle...
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Magnificent Obsession
Magnificent Obsession is a 1935 drama film based on a book by Lloyd C. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession. It was adapted by Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman and George O'Neil, and directed by John M. Stahl. It stars Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles...
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Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge is a 1940 remake of the 1931 film of the same title.
The film was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin and Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay is by S. N. Behrman, Hans Rameau and George...
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Ride, Vaquero!
Ride, Vaquero! is a 1953 western film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). It was directed by John Farrow and produced by Stephen Ames from a screenplay by Frank Fenton and John Farrow. The music score was by Bronislau Kaper and the cinematography by...
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The Gorgeous Hussy
The Gorgeous Hussy is a 1936 motion picture directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor. The film's plot tells a fictional account of President of the United States Andrew Jackson and an innkeeper's daughter. The...
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Valley of the Kings
Valley of the Kings is a 1954 adventure film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was written and directed by Robert Pirosh from a screenplay by Robert Pirosh and Karl Tunberg, "suggested by historical data" in the book Gods, Graves, and Scholars by C. W...
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Johnny Eager
Johnny Eager is a 1942 film noir starring Robert Taylor and Lana Turner. Van Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The film is featured in the comedy spoof Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982).
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A House Is Not a Home
A House Is Not a Home is a 1964 drama film loosely based on the 1953 autobiography by madam Polly Adler. The film stars Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero, and Kaye Ballard.
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Rogue Cop
Rogue Cop (1954) is a film noir directed by Roy Rowland, based on the novel by William P. McGivern (1954), and starring Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, and George Raft.
The film tells of Christopher Kelvaney (Taylor) a crooked police officer who is not...
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Escape
Escape is a 1940 drama film about an American in pre-World War II Nazi Germany who discovers his mother is in a concentration camp and tries desperately to free her. It starred Robert Taylor, Norma Shearer, Conrad Veidt and Alla Nazimova. It was...
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Westward the Women
Westward the Women (1951) is a western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel and John McIntire.
In 1851, Roy Whitman (John McIntire) decides to bring marriageable women west to his lonely men, hoping they will...
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Storm Warning
Storm Warning is a 2007 Australian horror film directed by Urban Legend director Jamie Blanks.
Rob and Pia, a couple who are out for a day of sailing become lost in a heavy storm and end up on a desolate island. They come across a barn with no one...
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Remember?
Remember? is a 1939 film directed by Norman Z. McLeod. The movie, that stars Robert Taylor and Greer Garson, was rushed into production by MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer, because of the quickly rising popularity of the then beginning actress Greer...
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The Bribe
The Bribe (1949) is a American crime film noir directed by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Marguerite Roberts, based on a story written by Frederick Nebel. The drama features Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, among others.
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Small Town Girl
Small Town Girl (1936) is a film starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, and James Stewart. The romantic comedy was directed by William A. Wellman.
Based on a novel by Ben Ames Williams, the film went through many changes before it reached the screen....
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A Yank at Oxford
A Yank at Oxford is a British 1938 film comedy produced by the British branch of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Jack Conway from a screenplay by John Monk Saunders and Leon Gordon. The film was parodied in the 1940 Laurel and Hardy movie A...
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Above and Beyond
Above and Beyond is a 1952 film about Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. It starred Robert Taylor as Tibbets and Eleanor Parker as his wife. James Whitmore played security officer Major Bill Uanna.
The film was...
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West Point of the Air
West Point of the Air is a 1935 film starring Wallace Beery, about pilot training in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the early 1930's. The supporting cast includes Robert Young, Lewis Stone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Rosalind Russell, and Robert Taylor. The...
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Stand Up and Fight
Stand Up and Fight is a 1939 film starring Wallace Beery and Robert Taylor. The supporting cast includes Florence Rice, Helen Broderick, Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, Charley Grapewin, and John Qualen, and the movie was directed by W.S. Van Dyke...
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When Ladies Meet
When Ladies Meet (1941) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, and Herbert Marshall, and Spring Byington in a story about a novelist in love with her publisher. The screenplay by S.K. Lauren and...
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Personal Property
Personal Property is a 1937 film starring Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor. The movie directed by W.S. Van Dyke. It is based on the play The Man In Possession by H.M. Harwood.
Raymond Dabney (Robert Taylor) gets out of prison and is welcomed home by...
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Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968) is a movie comedy starring Rosalind Russell and Stella Stevens. The film is a sequel to The Trouble with Angels (1966) and was written by Blanche Hanalis from a story by Jane Trahey, and directed by James...
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Devil's Doorway
Devil's Doorway is a 1950 western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring Robert Taylor as an Indian who returns home from the American Civil War a hero awarded the Medal of Honor. However, his hopes for a peaceful life are shattered by bigotry...
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Miracle of the White Stallions
Miracle of the White Stallions is a 1963 film released by Walt Disney starring Robert Taylor (playing Alois Podhajsky), Lilli Palmer, and Eddie Albert. It is the story of the evacuation of the Lipizzaner horses from the Spanish Riding School in...
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Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid is a 1941 color remake of a 1930 movie of the same name. The film features Robert Taylor as Billy and Brian Donlevy as a fictionalized version of Pat Garrett renamed "Jim Sherwood" in the movie. Directed by David Miller and based on...
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Stand by for Action
Stand by for Action (British title: Cargo of Innocents) is a 1942 war film starring Robert Taylor, Charles Laughton, and Brian Donlevy as U.S. Navy officers.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
During World War II,...
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Her Cardboard Lover
Her Cardboard Lover is a 1942 American comedy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jacques Deval, John Collier, Anthony Veiller, and William H. Wright is based on the English translation of Deval's play Dans sa candeur naïve by Valerie...
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Ambush
Ambush is a 1950 western film directed by Sam Wood and starring Robert Taylor, John Hodiak and Arlene Dahl. This was the last film directed by Sam Wood.
It's 1878 and Ward Kinsman (Robert Taylor), a prospector and Indian scout, has been persuaded to...
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The Youngest Profession
The Youngest Profession is a 1943 film, directed by Edward Buzzell, and starring Virginia Weidler, John Carroll, Edward Arnold, Scotty Beckett, and Agnes Moorehead. It contains cameos by Greer Garson, Lana Turner, William Powell, Walter Pidgeon, and...
