Overview
- Taylor, whose death the Spanish film academy announced Tuesday, died in Madrid at 99.
- No cause of death was given, and Spanish media reported he had been hospitalized earlier in May.
- The Oregon-born actor, born George Brown Randall, settled in Spain in the 1960s and became a mainstay of horror and cult films with director Jesús Franco.
- His work reached global audiences through Conan the Barbarian with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate.
- AISGE announced a public viewing at Madrid’s Tanatorio de San Isidro.