Editing Rod Taylor (section)

===Later career===
In 1973, Taylor was cast in ''[[The Train Robbers]]'' alongside long-time friend [[John Wayne]]<ref>{{cite news| date=19 June 1963| title=The Weekly Round| page=2| work=Australian Women's Weekly| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47510335| access-date=2021-04-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| website=The Complete Rod Taylor Site| title=John Wayne| url=http://www.rodtaylorsite.com/johnwayne.shtml| access-date=2021-04-13}}</ref> and [[Ann-Margret]]. The film was a box-office success. Taylor also had some television roles: he starred in ''[[Bearcats!]]'' (1971) on [[CBS]] and in ''[[The Oregon Trail (TV series)|The Oregon Trail]]'' (1976) on NBC. He had a regular role in the short-lived spy drama series ''[[Masquerade (TV series)|Masquerade]]'' (1983), and played one of the leads in the equally short-lived series, ''[[Outlaws (1986 TV series)|Outlaws]]'' (1986). From 1988 to 1990, Taylor appeared in the CBS drama series ''[[Falcon Crest]]'' as [[Frank Agretti]], playing opposite [[Jane Wyman]]. In the mid-1990s, he appeared in several episodes of ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' and ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]''.

In 1993, he hosted the documentary ''[[Time Machine: The Journey Back]]''. The special ended with a minisequel written by [[David Duncan (writer)|David Duncan]], the screenwriter of the [[George Pal]] film. Taylor recreated his role as George, reuniting him with Filby ([[Alan Young]]).

Taylor returned to Australia several times over the years to make films, playing a 1920s traveling showman in ''[[The Picture Show Man]]'' (1977) and a paid killer in ''[[On the Run (1982 film)|On the Run]]'' (1983). In the black comedy ''[[Welcome to Woop Woop]]'' (1997), he played the foul-mouthed redneck Daddy-O.

By the late 1990s, Taylor had moved into semiretirement. In 2007, he appeared in the horror telemovie ''[[Kaw (film)|Kaw]]'', which revisits the idea of marauding birds turning on their human tormentors. In this film, however, the cause of the disturbance was discovered by Taylor, who plays the town doctor. He appeared in Quentin Tarantino's ''Inglourious Basterds'' in 2009, portraying Winston Churchill in a cameo.<ref name=miamih>{{cite news| first=Scott| last=Eyman| title=Tarantino Comes Calling with a Role For Rod Taylor| url=http://www.miamiherald.com/living/story/1196616.html| newspaper=[[The Miami Herald]]| date=23 August 2009| access-date=20 August 2009| archive-url=https://archive.today/20240524123345/https://www.webcitation.org/5kJ4OVKYY?url=http://www.miamiherald.com/living/story/1196616.html| archive-date=24 May 2024| url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2017, a documentary on Taylor's life, ''Pulling No Punches'', was released and entered into the [[Beverly Hills Film Festival]].