Elaine Taylor (actress)

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Elaine Regina Taylor (born October 17, 1943 in Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire , England ) is a British actress . She starred in several well-known movies in the 1960s and 1970s. Including roles in Casino Royale , The Lethal Injection , Diamonds for Breakfast , Leigh McNally or My Way Up .

life and career

Elaine Taylor was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in 1943. Trained in dance and ballet , she began her television career in England in the mid-1960s. She started her film career two years later with an appearance in the role of Peg in the lavish and star-studded James Bond episode Casino Royale . In the cinema she then played several major roles in films over the next few years, such as the musical Half a Sixpence directed by George Sidney , where she impersonated the part of Victoria, in Roy Ward Baker's screen production The Toxic Injection with Bette Davis , in Christopher Morahans The rogue comedy Diamonds for breakfast with Marcello Mastroianni and Rita Tushingham , in the 1969 comedy Leigh mcnally directed by Peter Coe, and in 1970 in Michael Winner's sports drama The Games alongside actors such as Michael Crawford , Ryan O'Neal and Charles Aznavour or in James MacTaggart's comedy My Way Up alongside Warren Mitchell and Pat Heywood.

Her television career, which she had started in 1965, intensified with numerous appearances in TV series at the beginning of the 1970s. She played a more complex role in 1972 in seven episodes of the TV series The Organization in the role of Veronica in the ensemble around Peter Egan , Anton Rodgers and Donald Sinden . After 1974 she took a twelve-year television break and only appeared again in some roles in television films in the mid-1980s. She ended her television career with a small guest role in Yves Simoneau's crime drama Divorce by Murder .

In addition to her career in film and television, Elaine Taylor was also seen in various theater roles, including the 1965 British stage version of Half a Sixpence , where Tommy Steele played at her side as in the later film adaptation.

In 1969 she met and fell in love with her future husband, actor Christopher Plummer , on the set of the film Leigh McNally . The marriage followed in 1970, the couple is married to this day. Both share a passion for renovating old houses. He as an architect and she as an interior designer. Plummer and Taylor have owned an English manor-style house in New England since the late 1970s.

Elaine Taylor is the stepmother of actress Amanda Plummer .

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

  • 1967: Casino Royale
  • 1967: Half a Sixpence
  • 1968: The lethal injection (The Anniversary)
  • 1968: Diamonds for Breakfast
  • 1969: Leigh McNally (Lock Up Your Daughters!)
  • 1970: The Games
  • 1970: All the Way Up

watch TV

  • 1965: The Benny Hill Show (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1967: The Old Campaigner (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1968: Mr. Rose (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1969: Special assignment (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1971: ITV Saturday Night Theater (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1971: Stage 2 (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1972: Jason King (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1972: The Organization (TV series, 7 episodes)
  • 1972: BBC Play of the Month (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1974: Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (Movie made for TV)
  • 1986: Adam: His Song Continues (TV movie)
  • 1986: The George McKenna Story (TV movie)
  • 1988: Sharing Richard (TV movie)
  • 1992: Divorce by Murder (Till Death Us Do Part) (TV movie)

literature

  • Elaine Taylor. In: Leonard Maltin: Leonard Maltin's 2014 Movie Guide. , Penguin, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elaine Taylor. In: Robert Michael; Bobb Cotter: The Women of Hammer Horror: A Biographical Dictionary and Filmography. , McFarland, 2013, p. 183
  2. ↑ Elaine Taylor. In: Robert Michael; Bobb Cotter: Caroline Munro, First Lady of Fantasy: A Complete Annotated Record of Film and Television Appearances. , McFarland, 2012, p. 8
  3. ↑ Elaine Taylor. In: Louis Botto; Robert Viagas: At This Theater: Revised and Updated Edition. , Hal Leonard Corporation, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Elaine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, Elaine Regina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire , England