Robert Taylor

(1911-1969) born in Filley, Gage County, lived in Beatrice. Actor, narrator, outdoorsman, appeared in 80 films, seven of them rated in Magill’s 1983 film guide among the best 1000 movies, narrated two Academy Award-winning feature length documentaries in 1944 and 1948, co-recipient of 1954 Golden Globe Award as world’s film favorite, starred in weekly television series, a matinee idol in the 1930s and ranked as the decade’s 8th top box office attraction, set Hollywood record for longest contract with one studio (24 years with MGM); his star was placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, and his first wife Barbara Stanwyck was also honored with a star in 1960. Consult Jane Ellen Wayne, The Life of Robert Taylor (Robson, 1973, 1987) and The Beatrice /NE/ Daily Sun, October 8, 1993, a 48-page supplement, and Nebraska History, Vol 75 (Winter 1994) 280-291 and American National Biography, Vol 21 (1999) 404-405 and Jane Ellen Wayne, The Leading Men of MGM (Carroll and Graf, 2005) Chapter 5.

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