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He also joined the television series 'Death Valley Days' in 1966 and when his friend, Ronald Reagan, left to pursue a political career, Taylor took over the role of narrator and remained with the series until his death in 1969.

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Taylor was married twice, each time to actresses, and he was known as something of a lady's man with his name linked romantically to a number of actresses including Ava Gardner, Eleanor Parker, Virginia Bruce and Irene Hervey.

His first wife was actress Barbara Stanwyck whom he married in 1939.

Davies said in a prepared statement that the series was born under improbable circumstances. Later, under some pressure from both HUAC and MGM, he retracted this and declared to HUAC's chairman John Parnell Thomas that he was not forced to do the picture.

Taylor gave the names of actors Howard Da Silva and Karen Morley and screenwriter Lester Cole to the Committee.

Locations include the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park — with special permission from the Traditional Owners — and Tipperary Station, a real-life, working cattle station that’s so large it has its own airfield and school.

“For scale, the real-life Anna Creek Station, which served as one of the inspirations for the series, is bigger than the state of New Jersey.

I've sent stuff to London, and then flown there. When they began living together they were persuaded to legally marry by Louis B. Mayer, in order to avoid gossip and costly bad publicity. Robert will next be seen in the action sci-fi feature The Meg, directed by Jon Turteltaub, and opposite Jason Statham for Warner Bros due for worldwide release this August.

I remember, after a month or so, I thought, 'Oh, I never heard back. In 1950 he played an American Indian, complete with dark-stained skin, in 'Devil's Doorway' which contained many surprisingly thought-provoking scenes dealing with the social plight of the Native American.

Taylor gave several noteworthy performances in otherwise routine pictures during the decade including 'Westward the Women' in 1951, 'Rogue Cop' in 1954, ' The Last Hunt' in 1956 and 'Party Girl' in 1958.

In 1941 he played the title role in 'Billy the Kid' and the following year he played the ruthless gangster, the eponymous hero of 'Johnny Eager' with Lana Turner. He underwent major surgery to remove his right lung in October 1968 but died on June 8, 1969 in St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. In 1944 he also reluctantly appeared in another propoganda film, 'Song of Russia', in which he played an American classical conductor who falls in love with a Russian girl.

Sensing this once-great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions — rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners — move in for the kill. Robert recently featured in Kong: Skull Island, and the Australian Feature Film, Don't Tell directed by Tori Garrett, opposite Rachel Griffiths, Jack Thompson, Aden Young and Jacqueline McKenzie.

According to Netflix, Territory “follows the fight for power in the remote and unforgiving Australian outback when the world’s largest cattle station is left without an apparent heir. Taylor also became stepfather to Ursula's' two children from her previous marriage.

Taylor bought a large ranch in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, to this day known as The Robert Taylor Ranch.

Let’s put it this way: The land is so large and so unfathomable that the preferred modes of transportation are helicopters and private jets. His father, Spangler Andrew Brugh, was a grain farmer who, late in life, studied medicine and became a doctor, in order to treat and, eventually successfully cure his wife of a rare illness which she had had since childhood.

After several moves the family settled at Beatrice, Nebraska where Taylor attended High School.

There the Taylors enjoyed a quiet life away from the Hollywood limelight. In 2015, Robert starred alongside Will Smith and Margot Robbie in feature film Focus directed by Glenn Fircarra and John Requa.

Biography

Robert Taylor was born in Filley, Nebraska, on August 5, 1911, with the birth name of Spangler Arlington Brugh.

The couple had no children and the marriage ended in divorce in 1951 after Taylor had an affair with an Italian starlet in Rome whilst filming 'Quo Vadis'. Australia is roughly the size of the contiguous 48 US states but with about a third of the population, and some of the landowners in the outback have land holdings bigger than many countries.