Acting

Robert Taylor

Born

1967-11-14 (58)

Place of birth

The Bronx, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

9 titles

Robert Taylor is one of the pioneers of the B-Boy & Breakdancing movement that changed hip-hop & music as a whole forever. He is known for Beat Street (1984), Avenging Force (1986) and The Break (1997).

Known for

Some Mother's Son poster
6.8

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.

Some Mother's Son

1996

Beat Street poster
6.9

An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.

Beat Street

1984

Avenging Force poster
5.7

A senator is targeted by the Pentangle, a right wing paramilitary group. His pal, a former CIA agent and martial artist, tries to help him. The group kidnaps the agent's sister and tries to hunt him down, "The Most Dangerous Game" style.

Avenging Force

1986

A Further Gesture poster
4.8

Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York, but he might as well be in prison again - until he strikes up a friendship with co-worker Tulio and gets to know his close group of Guatemalan exiles.

A Further Gesture

1997

The Bay Boy poster
5.7

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? And how far should he go with his girlfriend, who happens to be the murderer's daughter?

The Bay Boy

1984

Steel Justice poster
4.2

David Nash has lost his son and his will to live. But the boy appears in his dreams, as well as his Robosaurus toy ! A mythical figure will help Nash to turn the Robosaurus into a real creature in order to avenge his son's death.

Steel Justice

1992

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 3 titles

Behind the camera