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Rod Taylor Dies: The Birds Actor Was 84 Jan 9th 2015, 12:23, by Free Britney Rod Taylor, an actor who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, The Birds, along with dozens of other films throughout his career, died this week at 84. The Australian-born Taylor died at his L.A. home Wednesday surrounded by his family and loved ones, his daughter, Felicia Taylor, said in a statement. "My dad loved his work. Being an actor was his passion ... calling it an honorable art and something he couldn't live without," she said of her father. No cause of death was given for Rod Taylor, who appeared in dozens of films such as The Time Machine, The Train Robbers and Sunday in New York. The only child of a steel contractor father and a writer mother, he attended college and a theater school in Sydney before heading to L.A. in the 1950s. Once there, his star kept rising with various high-profile roles, his final one being Winston Churchill in 2009's Inglourious Basterds with Brad Pitt. Taylor is survived by wife Carol, and Felicia. R.I.P. Celebrities We Lost in 2015 1. Stuart Scott Scott was an anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter for over 20 years. He died from cancer at the age of 49.

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