Robert Taylor
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1996
Robert Taylor
Actor
Class of 1929
Robert Taylor; a 1929 graduate, appeared in 80 motion pictures and television films from 1934 to 1969 and ranked eighth as the biggest box office star of the 1930s, according to polls published in the trade journal, "Motion Picture Herald." He starred in his own television series, "The Detectives," a half-hour weekly from 1959 to 1961 and an hour weekly in 1961-62 and hosted and occasionally starred in "Death Valley Days" from 1966 to 1968. In 1954 he was named the most popular star abroad by the Hollywood Foreign Press Correspondents Association.