Actor Rod Taylor born 1930

Handsome actor Rod Taylor, born January 11, 1930, in Sydney, Australia, had his break-out role in H. G. Well's Time Machine in 1960.  He had a ppeared in an episode of the Twilight Zone in 1959.  He would go on to star in one of my favorites, The Birds. 

He won 5 awards as part of the ensemble cast for Inglorious Basterds, of which his role as Winston Churchill would be his last.

He was considered for Col. George Taylor in Planet of the Apes but the part went to Charlton Heston.  He was also considered for Roper in Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee, but John Saxon got that role.

Taylor passed away in January 2015 from a heart attack after a fall.

"The Time Machine" released onto the big screen 1960

H. G. Wells' classic tale The Time Machine was brought to the big screen August 17, 1960.  Since then, two more movies have been and its themes and references have been in dozens of television shows.  Wells published his story in 1895 and he is the one who coined the term "time machine".

In this movie version, Rod Taylor plays H. G. Wells, the lead character, but in the novella, the main character is never named.  He is referred to only as the Time Traveler.  The movie also did not have the Time Traveler traveling millions of years into the future when civilization has died out and Earth and the sun are dying as well.

The 1960 version of the movie won the 1961 Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects.  I enjoyed both this and the 2002 version with Guy Pierce and Orlando Jones, although it tended to divert from the novel a bit more than the 1960 version.