Jack Taylor, 1926 – 2026

American actor Jack Taylor, best known for his European films, died at the age of 99, it was announced on May 12. He started his career on American TV, but by the late 1950s had moved to Spain, where he found success in such films as Succubus, Count Dracula, Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion, Female Vampire, and Pieces. He also appeared in such US and international films as Cleopatra (“If you blink, you will not see me, but I am there, acting as a Greek slave of Rex Harrison”), Jet Over the Atlantic, Custer of the West, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, The Ninth Gate, and Goya's Ghosts. Taylor had recently completed his memoirs, set to be published next month.