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30-599: The company was established in 1930 by Arthur Rubloff , who was responsible for some of the most notable and successful real estate developments in Chicago , including The Brunswick Building , the Greyhound Bus Terminal, Evergreen Plaza Shopping Center and the Carl Sandburg Village . Rubloff was involved in hundreds of real estate deals during his career that helped to shape the city of Chicago. He died in 1986 at

60-725: A British explorer of the Australian outback in the 19th century. Taylor attended Parramatta High School and later studied at the East Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College and took art classes. His mother wanted him to be an artist, and pressured him into taking the art classes. For a time he worked as a commercial artist, but he decided to become an actor after seeing Laurence Olivier in an Old Vic touring production of Richard III . Taylor acquired extensive radio and stage experience in Australia, where his radio work included

90-548: A healthy marriage. Taylor dated and was briefly engaged to Swedish actress Anita Ekberg in the early 1960s. He dated model Pat Sheehan in the late 1960s. His second marriage was to model Mary Hilem and lasted from 1963 until they divorced in 1969. The couple had one daughter, former CNN financial reporter Felicia Taylor (1964-2023). Taylor bought a home in Palm Springs, California in 1967. He married his third wife, Carol Kikumura, in 1980. They had originally dated in

120-477: A period on Blue Hills and a role as Tarzan . Earlier in his career he had to support himself by working at Sydney's Mark Foy's department store, designing and painting window and other displays during the day. In 1951, he took part in a re-enactment of Charles Sturt 's voyage down the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers, playing Sturt's offsider, George Macleay . A short documentary, Inland with Sturt (1951),

150-602: A significant role in Separate Tables (1958), which won Oscars for two of its stars, David Niven and Wendy Hiller . He also made a strong impression guest-starring in an episode of The Twilight Zone titled " And When the Sky Was Opened " (1959). Taylor's first leading role in a feature film was in The Time Machine (1960), George Pal 's adaptation of the science-fiction classic by H. G. Wells , with Taylor as

180-468: Is credited with naming and developing North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois , into the " Magnificent Mile ". Rubloff was born to a Jewish family on June 25, 1902, in Duluth, Minnesota, the eldest of five children born to Solomon Rubloff, an immigrant from Russia who owned several jewelry and dry goods stores. The family moved to Chisholm, Minnesota , but lost everything to a fire in 1908 which destroyed

210-699: The North Shore , Lincoln Park , the Gold Coast , the South Loop and Harbor Country in Michigan. In 2006 Rubloff had gross revenues of $ 1.35 billion. Prudential Preferred Properties acquired Rubloff in September, 2009, and it is now known as Prudential Rubloff Properties. Arthur Rubloff Arthur Rubloff (June 25, 1902 – May 24, 1986) was an American real estate developer who founded Arthur Rubloff & Co. and

240-528: The 1950s anthology series Studio 57 . He started to gain popularity after starring in The Time Machine (1960), as H. George Wells. He later starred in the Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), voicing Pongo. In one of his most famous roles, he played Mitch Brenner in The Birds (1963), directed by Alfred Hitchcock . By the late 1990s, Taylor had moved into semi-retirement. His final film role

270-616: The Ft. Dearborn Project, and proposing the North Loop project known as the Chicago 21 Plan . Sara Miller , later to win renown as a sculptor, was for many years an executive with Rubloff's firm. Rubloff had a private chauffeur for his business use with his goings and coming in the Chicago area. His private chauffeur was Michael Ciró Rizzo, an immigrant from Palermo, Italy. Rizzo was a trusting and hard worker to Mr. Rubloff. When Rizzo's granddaughter, Debra

300-557: The age of 83. Rubloff grew rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s, establishing its presence in twelve metropolitan areas, including; Los Angeles , San Francisco , Washington D.C. , Detroit , Houston , Dallas , Atlanta , Cincinnati and Cleveland . In 1993, Rubloff sold its commercial operations including Rubloff Development Group, Inc., and concentrated its efforts on tackling Chicago's residential sector. In 1996 Howard Weinstein and Tom Horwich became co-owners. Today, Rubloff operates out of seven different offices, covering areas including

330-648: 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. In 2017, a documentary on Taylor's life, "Pulling No Punches", was released and entered into the Beverly Hills Film Festival . His first wife was model Peggy Williams (1951–1954). They divorced after allegations of domestic violence . Taylor later claimed that they divorced because they felt they were too young to have

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360-476: The character of Bond "beneath him". Taylor later commented: "Every time a new Bond picture became a smash hit ... I tore out my hair." Taylor starred in Alfred Hitchcock 's horror thriller The Birds (1963), along with Tippi Hedren , Suzanne Pleshette , Jessica Tandy and Veronica Cartwright , playing a man whose town and home come under attack by menacing birds. Taylor then starred with Jane Fonda in

390-479: The early 1960s when she was an extra on his TV series Hong Kong . The couple got back together in 1971 and dated for an additional nine years before marrying. Taylor died of a heart attack at his home, surrounded by his family, on 7 January 2015, in Beverly Hills, California , four days before his 85th birthday. Taylor had several lead roles in television, from the early 1960s to the early first decade of

420-565: The end of 1955, Taylor unsuccessfully screen tested to play boxer Rocky Graziano in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 's Somebody Up There Likes Me after James Dean 's death, but his use of a Brooklyn accent and physical prowess in the test impressed the studio enough to give him a long-term contract. At MGM, he played a series of supporting roles in The Catered Affair (1956), Raintree County (1957), and Ask Any Girl (1959). He had

450-550: The end of the decade to more tough-guy roles, such as Chuka (1967), which he also produced, and he starred in Hotel (1967) with Catherine Spaak ; Dark of the Sun (or The Mercenaries , 1968), again with Yvette Mimieux; Nobody Runs Forever (1968) where he played New South Wales Police Sergeant Scobie Malone , this being Taylor's first starring feature film role as an Australian; and Darker than Amber (1970) as Travis McGee . He

480-461: 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 mini-sequel written by 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

510-597: The proceeds from that transaction and leveraging his relationship with Allen and Co, he developed – in the late 1940s – Evergreen Plaza , one of the first shopping malls. He promoted, developed, and transformed North Michigan Avenue into the " Magnificent Mile ". He helped to developed the Old Town neighborhood in Chicago, and the Southland and Sun Valley projects in San Francisco as well as co-developing Carl Sandburg Village ,

540-746: The romantic comedy Sunday in New York (also 1963). During the mid-1960s, Taylor worked mostly for MGM. His credits including The V.I.P.s (1963), his first feature film role as an Australian, with Richard Burton , Elizabeth Taylor , and Maggie Smith ; Fate Is the Hunter (for 20th Century Fox , 1964) with Glenn Ford and Suzanne Pleshette; 36 Hours (1964) with James Garner ; Young Cassidy (1965) with Julie Christie and Maggie Smith; The Liquidator (1965) with Jill St. John ; Do Not Disturb (1965); and The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), both co-starring Doris Day . He began to change his image toward

570-421: The time traveller who, thousands of years in the future, falls for a woman played by Yvette Mimieux . Taylor played a character not unlike that of his Twilight Zone episode of a year earlier and the film World Without End in 1956. In or around 1960, he was approached regarding the role of James Bond in the first feature-length Bond film . Taylor reportedly declined to become involved because he considered

600-468: The town. In 1914, at the age of 12, Rubloff ran away to Duluth , Minnesota , where he worked as galley boy on the J.S. Stevenson , an ore boat. In 1915, he moved to Cincinnati where he worked at a furniture manufacturer. In 1917, he moved to Chicago where his parents had moved and worked for his father's ladies clothing manufacturing company. His parents' factory burned down and his father enlisted his son to lease some real estate he had accumulated and

630-599: The years to make films, playing a 1920s traveling showman in The Picture Show Man (1977) and a paid killer in 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 semi-retirement. In 2007, he appeared in the horror telemovie Kaw , which revisits the idea of marauding birds turning on their human tormentors. In this film, however,

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660-596: Was a box office success. Taylor also had some television roles: he starred in Bearcats! (1971) on CBS and in The Oregon Trail (1976) on NBC. He had a regular role in the short-lived spy drama series Masquerade (1983) and played one of the leads in the equally short-lived series, Outlaws (1986). From 1988 to 1990, Taylor appeared in the CBS drama series Falcon Crest as Frank Agretti , playing opposite Jane Wyman . In

690-602: Was also reportedly up for the role of martial artist Roper in the Bruce Lee vehicle Enter the Dragon (1973). The film was directed by Robert Clouse , who had also directed Taylor in the film Darker than Amber (1970). Taylor was supposedly deemed too tall for the part, and the role instead went to John Saxon . In 1973, Taylor was cast in The Train Robbers alongside long time friend John Wayne and Ann-Margret . The film

720-690: Was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including Young Cassidy (1965), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), The Train Robbers (1973) and A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975). Taylor was born in Lidcombe , a suburb of Sydney , to a father who was a steel construction contractor and commercial artist and a mother who was a children's author. He began taking art classes in high school, and continued in college. He decided to become an actor after seeing Laurence Olivier in an Old Vic touring production of Richard III . His first film role

750-548: Was awarded the 1954 Rola Show Australian Radio Actor of the Year Award, which included a ticket to London via Los Angeles, but Taylor did not continue on to London. Taylor soon landed roles in television shows such as Studio 57 and the films Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) and Giant (1956). In 1955, he guest-starred as Clancy in the third episode ("The Argonauts") of the first hour-long Western television series, Cheyenne , an ABC program starring Clint Walker . Toward

780-590: Was based on it. Taylor also appeared in a number of theatre productions for Australia's Mercury Theatre . Taylor made his feature film debut in the Australian Lee Robinson film King of the Coral Sea (1954), playing an American. He later played Israel Hands in a Hollywood -financed film shot in Sydney, Long John Silver (1954), an unofficial sequel to Treasure Island . Following these two films, Taylor

810-536: Was in Quentin Tarantino 's Inglourious Basterds (2009), portraying a fictionalized version of Winston Churchill in a cameo. Taylor was born on 11 January 1930 in Lidcombe , a suburb of Sydney , the only child of William Sturt Taylor, a steel construction contractor and commercial artist, and Mona Taylor (née Thompson), a writer of more than a hundred short stories and children's books. His middle name comes from his great-great-granduncle, Captain Charles Sturt ,

840-429: Was in a re-enactment of Charles Sturt 's voyage down the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers, playing Sturt's offsider, George Macleay . At the time, he was also appearing in a number of theatre productions for Australia's Mercury Theatre . He made his feature film debut in the Australian Lee Robinson film King of the Coral Sea (1954). He soon started acting in television films, portraying several different characters in

870-791: Was married, October 2, 1982. Rubloff gifted the happy couple a set of Tiffany and Co., plates for their wedding present. Debra still has these plates today. Along with Mr. Rubloff's Hoyle Game book, with "Arthur Rubloff", engraved on the spine of the book. Rubloff estimated his net worth at $ 100 million. In 1934, he married Josephine Sheehan; she died in 1974. In 1980, he married New York native Mary (née Hilem) Taylor, former wife of actor Rod Taylor and adopted her daughter, Felicia Taylor . After Rubloff's death, Hilem married Florida real estate developer Lewis M. Schott. Rubloff died on May 24, 1986, at his home in Chicago. Services were held at Temple Sholom in Chicago. Rod Taylor Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015)

900-464: Was serendipitously offered a job by the lessee who liked his gumption. In 1919, he went to work for Robert White & Co selling downtown office space in Chicago. In 1930, he went into business for himself with only $ 700, having squandered all the money he made. He named the company Arthur Rubloff & Co. His break came when he negotiated a complicated and large North Kansas City development project for investment-banking firm, Allen & Co. Using

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