Rod Taylor, who died this week in Los Angeles at age 84 , was one of Australia’s most successful film exports. His accomplishments can stand beside those of Tasmanian Errol Flynn in the 1930s and Geoffrey Rush of Queensland in the 2000s. Yet he was vastly under-appreciated in his home country. The Sydney native touched down in Hollywood in 1955 before starring in HItchcocks The Birds, and didn’t make an Australia movie until 1977.
