Lynn Taylor

Last updated
Lynn Taylor
Born (1938-06-16) 16 June 1938 (age 83)
UK
OccupationActress
Years active1963–1993
Spouse(s)John Faassen

Lynn Taylor (born 16 June 1938) is an English and Australian actress, singer and dancer. [1]

Contents

Life and career

Taylor was born in the UK. She began her stage career with the Manchester Repertory Theatre, and studied at the Royal College of Music for one year. [2]

In England, she worked in TV series such as "The Saint", "The Avengers" and "Danger Man" and was also Elizabeth Taylor’s stand-in in the movie Cleopatra. [3] [4] In October 1964, she moved to Sydney to launch a new TV career. [4] Besides Australian TV series and stage productions, she co-anchored live TV talk shows and featured on TV commercials. [5]

Taylor was an international promotional representative for Elizabeth Arden, Inc. [3] She taught at National Institute of Dramatic Art.

Personal life

Lynn married Sydney businessman in the mid-1950s. They had three sons. [3] [4] [5] She had a daughter with her second husband, TV and theatre producer, actor and writer John Faassen. [6]

Performances

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1963 The Avengers ValerieEpisode: "Box of Tricks"
1964 Danger Man StewardessEpisode: "Yesterday's Enemies"
1966 Homicide Dolores BriggsEpisode: "Wasp Nest" [7]
1968 Hunter EvaEpisode: "The Visitor" [8]
1970 Division 4 Sally PageEpisode: "Mr. Fifty Percent" [9]

Stage

YearTitleRoleNotes
1965The Worst Woman in LondonFrances VereThe Music Hall, Neutral Bay, Sydney [2] [10] [11]
1971The Rocks PushThe Old Sydney Tavern, The Rocks, Sydney [12]
1974Up a Gum TreeMiss MollyThe Wild Colonial Theatre Restaurant, St Leonard's, Sydney [13]
1987To Catch a ThiefFootloose Theatre Restaurant, Thornleigh [14]
1988A Frantic French AffairFootloose Theatre Restaurant, Thornleigh [15]
1990We're No AngelsBabe BotticelliFootloose Theatre Restaurant, Thornleigh [16]
1991Her Wicked WaysLavinia de VilleFootloose Dinner Theatre, Thornleigh, Sydney [17] [18]
1992Vampires Don't CryGorgeous Gussie,
the Wayward Witch		Footloose Dinner Theatre, Thornleigh, Sydney [17]
1993The Fright of Her LifeLuscious LolaJohnny's Stage Door Theatre Restaurant [19]
1993Always Look On The Bright Side Of LifeHerselfZenith Theatre, Chatswood, Sydney [20]

Related Research Articles

Anne Mary Phelan was an Australian actress of stage and screen who appeared in many theatre, television and film productions as well as radio and voice-over. Her television soap opera roles included Kate Ashwood in Bellbird, Myra Desmond in Prisoner (1980–1985) and Monica Taylor in Something in the Air (2000–2002), for which she won the 2000 AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama, having previously won the 1988 AFI Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries for Poor Man's Orange. She received the Equity Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. She was also an activist for humanitarian causes.

Ron Randell

Ronald Egan "Ron" Randell was an Australian actor. After beginning his acting career on the stage in 1937, he played Charles Kingsford Smith in the film Smithy (1946). He also had roles in Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947), Kiss Me Kate (1953), I Am a Camera (1955), Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961) and King of Kings (1961).

Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RANVR) was a reserve force of the Royal Australian Navy.

Ronald Grant Taylor, known as Grant Taylor, was an English-Australian actor best known as the abrasive General Henderson in the Gerry Anderson science fiction series UFO and for his lead role in Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940).

Rusty Bugles was a controversial Australian play written by Sumner Locke Elliott in 1948. It toured extensively throughout Australia between 1948–1949 and was threatened with closure by the New South Wales Chief Secretary's Office for obscenity.

<i>Forty Thousand Horsemen</i> 1940 Australian film

Forty Thousand Horsemen is a 1940 Australian war film directed by Charles Chauvel. The film tells the story of the Australian Light Horse which operated in the desert at the Sinai and Palestine campaign during World War I. It follows the adventures of three rowdy heroes in fighting and romance. The film culminates at the Battle of Beersheba which is reputedly "the last successful cavalry charge in history". The film was clearly a propaganda weapon, to aid in recruitment and lift the pride of Australians at home during World War II. It was one of the most successful Australian movies of its day. It was later remade in 1987 as The Lighthorsemen.

Hugh D. McIntosh Australian politician

Hugh Donald "Huge Deal" McIntosh was an Australian show-business entrepreneur.

<i>Rangle River</i> 1936 Australian film

Rangle River is a 1936 Australian Western film directed by Clarence G. Badger based on a story by Zane Grey.

Lloyd Berrell was a New Zealand actor who played Reuben "Roo" Webber in the original Sydney production of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. He worked extensively in Australian radio and theatre, appearing in a large portion of the films being shot locally at that time. He also starred in the original stage production of Sumner Locke Elliott's Rusty Bugles as well as numerous productions for the Mercury Theatre.

Lady in Danger was a play by Australian writer Max Afford. It was one of the few Australian plays to enjoy a run on Broadway. It was also adapted for radio and television.

The Torrents is a 1955 Australian play by Oriel Gray, set in the late 19th century, about the arrival of a female journalist in an all-male newspaper office, and an attempt to develop irrigation-based agriculture in a former gold mining town.

Murder Story is a 1958 Australian television play. It was based on a script by Ludovic Kennedy based on the Croydon roof top murder and starred Neva Carr-Glynn, John Ewart and Douglas Kelly. It was directed by Raymond Menmuir.

The First Joanna is a 1943 play by Dorothy Blewett.

Margaret Barr was an Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama who worked in the United States, England, New Zealand and Australia. During a career of more than sixty years, she created over eighty works.

Jean White (physician)

Salome Jean White was the first female flying doctor in Australia and the world when she commenced work with the Australian Inland Mission in May 1937. She was known as the Guardian Angel of the Gulf.

May Hollinworth Australian theatrical producer and director

May Hollinworth was an Australian theatre producer and director, former radio actress, and founder of the Metropolitan Theatre in Sydney. The daughter of a theatrical producer, she was introduced to the theatre at a young age. She graduated with a science degree, and worked in the chemistry department of the University of Sydney, before being appointed as director of the Sydney University Dramatic Society. She held that post from 1929 to 1943, when she resigned and founded the Metropolitan Theatre, which she directed from 1944 to 1950. She presented a range of dramatic works, including Shakespeare and other classics, and contemporary plays from Australia and around the world. She premiered several Australian plays. She retired from the Metropolitan Theatre in 1950 due to illness, but was later invited to direct plays at the Independent Theatre and the Elizabethan Theatre in Sydney. She had a reputation as a superb producer, known for her highly effective use of lighting, and her abilities to arrange actors on stage to convey dramatic meaning visually, to overcome the challenges of large and small stages with minimal facilities, and to select and nurture a cast. Many actors who became notable in Australia and other countries played under her direction at the start of their careers.

Elisabeth MacIntyre Australian childrens writer and illustrator

Elisabeth MacIntyre(born Elisabeth Innes MacIntyre, also spelled Elizabeth MacIntyre; 1916–2004) was an Australian writer and illustrator. She mainly produced children's picture books and cartoon strips, but also created cartoon strips for adults and novels for young adults. She is recognised as "a staunch advocate of promoting Australian animals and surrounds in an era when the majority of children's books were imported from England". Her picture books appealed for their lively, bright illustrations and "irresistible", "infectious", stories, which used line and words economically and effectively. She was successful in the Australian, American and British markets, and some of her novels were also translated into German and Japanese. Her best known works are Ambrose Kangaroo, Susan, Who Lives in Australia, and Hugh's Zoo, for which she won the Australian Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book in 1965.

Annie Bright Australian journalist and spiritualist (1840–1913)

Annie Bright was an Australian journalist and spiritualist.

Wilton Welch was an Australian comic actor and dramatist, husband and collaborator of Louise Carbasse, best known as Louise Lovely.

Ruth Gall was an Australian chemist and Head of School at the School of Chemistry, University of Sydney. She was the first female Head of School at the university.

References

  1. ↑ "Lynn Taylor". www.jesst.com.au.
  2. 1 2 O'Neill, Josephine (22 March 1965). "Curtain Call". The Sun-Herald. Sydney, New South Wales. p. 134. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 Gaind, Rama (13 June 1979). "Happy to be rid of 'look-alike' image". The Canberra Times . 53 (15, 969). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p. 23. Retrieved 28 July 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  4. 1 2 3 "The Reluctant Cleopatra". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria. 12 October 1964. p. 2.
  5. 1 2 Hickman, Lorraine (12 August 1970). "TV models have "The Look of the Moment"". The Australian Women's Weekly . 38 (11). Australia. pp. 20, 23. Retrieved 31 July 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ Grose, Michael (22 March 1998). "The age of uncertainty". The Age SundayLife!. Melbourne, Victoria. p. 7. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  7. ↑ "No, not THAT Taylor". The Sun-Herald. Sydney, New South Wales. 5 June 1966. p. 96. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "TV Monday". The Age. Melbourne, Australia. 28 May 1970. p. 12, TV–Radio Guide. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  9. ↑ "TV Tuesday". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria. 27 February 1970. p. 9, TV–Radio Guide. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  10. ↑ H.L.C. (8 April 1965). "Music Hall Drama". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales. p. 12. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  11. ↑ Pinne, Peter (Spring 2010). "The Magic of George Miller's Music Halls" (PDF). On Stage. Theatre Heritage Australia Inc. 11 (4): 7. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  12. ↑ Walford, Leslie (11 July 1971). "The night I got among the Rocks Push". The Sun-Herald. Sydney, New South Wales. p. 126. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  13. ↑ "Dishing up feasts of local history". The Australian Women's Weekly . 42 (1). Australia. 5 June 1974. p. 55. Retrieved 31 July 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  14. ↑ Saw, Bill (5 November 1987). "Fun and Games at the Footloose". The Northern Herald (Weekly free supplement to The Sydney Morning Herald). Sydney, New South Wales. p. 21. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  15. ↑ Saw, Bill (10 March 1988). "Frantic and French at the Footloose". The Northern Herald (Weekly free supplement to The Sydney Morning Herald). Sydney, New South Wales. p. 16. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  16. ↑ Saw, Bill (28 June 1990). "Footloose Theatre Restaurant - a riotous romp of laughs and songs". The Northern Herald (Weekly free supplement to The Sydney Morning Herald). Sydney, New South Wales. p. 21. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  17. 1 2 Forrest, Betty (12 December 1991). "Fancy Free Fun at Footloose". The Northern Herald (Weekly free supplement to The Sydney Morning Herald). Sydney, New South Wales. Avanti Productions. p. 24. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  18. ↑ Saw, Bill (14 March 1991). "Footloose Dinner Theatre. Gala new show opens tomorrow night". The Northern Herald (Weekly free supplement to The Sydney Morning Herald). Sydney, New South Wales. p. 13. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  19. ↑ Offner, Steve (25 November 1993). "Enter tap-dancing Inspector". The Northern Herald (Weekly free supplement to The Sydney Morning Herald). Sydney, New South Wales. p. 12. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  20. ↑ Forrest, Betty (15 April 1993). "Lyn's Journey Down the Scales". The Northern Herald (Weekly free supplement to The Sydney Morning Herald). Sydney, New South Wales. Avanti Productions. p. 21. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.