Grigor Taylor
Born
Other namesGreg Taylor
Alma materPenrith High School
OccupationActor
Years active1967-1993

Grigor Weston Taylor also known as Greg Taylor, is an Australian former actor, best known for his parts in several television series including Matlock Police and Glenview High.

Early life, education and teacher

Taylor was born in Penrith, New South Wales and attended Penrith High School. After finishing school, he became an English teacher.

Taylor taught at Penrith and then at Marist Brothers, Westmead, New South Wales and he taught at Randwick Girls' High School in 1969.

Career

Grigor Taylor became a professional actor in 1971 and starred in the first 99 episodes of TV series Matlock Police as Senior Detective Alan Curtis. Between 1974โ€“75 Taylor portrayed Steve Hamilton in Silent Number and 1977โ€“78 he portrayed an English high school teacher, Greg Walker, in Glenview High.

Taylor took many other parts in Australian television series such as A Country Practice, Homicide, Special Squad, City West, The Flying Doctors, Butterfly Island, Dearest Enemy and Mission: Impossible.

Taylor also acted in several feature films, including High Rolling, Mad Max 2, and Afraid to Dance.[1]

Filmography

Film

Title Year Role Type
1977 High Rolling Alby Feature film
1981 Mad Max 2 Feature film
1987 Emma's War Dr. Friedlander Feature film
1988 The Clean Machine Detetive Sgt. Warren Davis TV movie
1988 After Marcuse Warren TV movie
1989 Afraid to Dance Jim Pratt Feature film
1991 Innocent Prey (aka Voyeur) Rick Feature film

Television

Title Year Role Type
1971-73 Matlock Police Senior Detective Alan Curtis TV series
1974 Behind the Legend Burrowes TV series
1974 Silent Number Steve Hamilton TV series
1975 Homicide Doug Lambert TV series
1976 McCloud Eric Taylor TV series
1976 The Outsiders Otto Benson TV series
1976 Bluey Evan Dillon TV series
1977-78 Glenview High Greg Walker TV series
1978 Case for the Defence Ari Ben-Leon TV series
1982 A Most Attractive Man
1984 The Explorers Leichhardt TV documentary series
1984 City West Jack Chenney TV series
1983-85 A Country Practice 2 roles TV series
1985 Special Squad Bob Dailey TV series
1985-87 Butterfly Island Charlie Wilson TV series
1988 All the Way Mike O'Brian TV miniseries
1988 The Last Resort Len TV series
1988 Vampire Princess Miyu Clerk TV miniseries
1988 The Flying Doctors Johnny McDonald TV series
1989 Dearest Enemy Anderson Morley TV series
1989 Mission: Impossible Defence Minister, Ivan Savitch TV series
1991 Rafferty's Rules Warren East TV series

References


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