Suave Australian-born actor Rod Taylor, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, along with many other films and TV shows, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. Taylor was 84. His daughter, Felicia Taylor, told the Los Angeles Times that the actor was surrounded by family and loved ones. No cause of death was given. "My dad loved his work. Being an actor was his passion -- calling it an honorable art and something he couldn't live without," Taylor, a former CNN correspondent and only child of the actor, told CNN in a statement. Read more http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/01/09/birds-actor-rod-taylor-dies-at-84/21489369/
