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Jack Taylor, American Actor in European Horror and Fantasy Films, Dies at 99

Jack Taylor, the American who acted in European horror/fantasy films and worked for John Milius, Roman Polanski and Ridley Scott, has died at 99.

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Actor Jack Taylor, primarily associated with horror productions, has passed away at the age of 99.

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Jack Taylor, one of the most spectacular faces of Spanish horror cinema, has died in Madrid at the age of 99. The American lived in Spain since the 1960s, when he came to film and decided to stay, to the point of becoming a popular neighbor in Madrid’s Plaza de Chamberí. With his strange and very Anglo-Saxon face, his English pronounced exquisitely, his cold look and his aristocratic character managed to be a special reference to terror, althoug…

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American actor Jack Taylor, a key figure in fantastic horror films filmed in Spain since the 1960s, has died in Madrid at the age of 99, according to the Academy of Cinema.Born in Oregon City (United States) in 1926, Taylor — whose real name was George Brown Randall— became one of the essential faces of the so-called Spanish Fantarror, the genre cinema that lived its great boom in the 60s and 70s. In that period he worked with some of the most r…

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The American actor Jack Taylor, a figure of the horror genre and fantastic settled in Spain since the 1960s, has died at 99 years in Madrid, reported on Tuesday the Film Academy. The performer participated in films such as 'Conan the Barbarian', 'Mil shouts has the night' or 'La novena puerta'. Born as George Brown Randall in Oregon City (USA) in 1926 (as he claimed in an interview in El Mundo in 2025, until then he said he was ten years younger…

·Spain
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On Tuesday, May 12, the death of American actor Jack Taylor, known worldwide for his work in the films Conan, the Barbarian (1982), where he performed alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger; The Last Door (1999), in which he was directed by Roman Polanski, and Necronomycón (1970) by Jesús Franco. He was 99 years old. Through a post on his social networks, it was the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences that confirmed the death of the ac…

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El Mundo broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Tuesday, May 12, 2026.
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