Jack Taylor, the actor from Oregon who found fame in European horror/fantasy films and worked for directors including John Milius, Roman Polanski, Ridley Scott, Milos Forman and Jesús Franco, has died. He was 99.
Taylor, who lived in the Chamberí district of Madrid for more than six decades, died Tuesday, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported.
Taylor portrayed a priest alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Milius’ Conan the Barbarian (1982) and an antique-book collector opposite Johnny Depp in Polanski’s The Ninth Gate (1999), and he appeared in Ridley Scott’s 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) and Forman’s Goya’s Ghosts (2006) as well.
In Spain, he acted in several films directed by Franco, including the X-rated Succubis (1968) and Eugenia (1970), the Christopher Lee-starring Count Dracula (1970), Night of the Blood Monster (1970), Sex Charade (1972), The Vengeance of Doctor Mabuse (1972), Female Vampire (1973), Sexy Sisters (1977) and Voodoo Passion (1977).
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