The iconic "rugged guy" of the 1960s, the forerunner of Mel Gibson and many other Australian stars, was 84.
He was considered to play James Bond, too, not long after his breakthrough role in "The Time Machine." My mother very much enjoyed his "Hong Kong" TV series around that same time.
In 1970 he was cast as Travis McGee, John D. MacDonald's "boat bum" adventurer (Deep Blue Goodby, Nightmare in Pink, and about 20 others) for a film version of Darker Than Amber. Robert Culp, late of "I Spy," tested, but MacDonald thought he was horrible and that Taylor was the best of a poor lot. (I glanced at the film on YouTube this morning, and it looks kind of cheap. But Taylor is excellent as always.)
He did a TV Series called "Bearcats!" in 1971 or so, in which he played one of a pair of adventurers-for-hire in the West of 1913 or so. It lasted only a half season, I think, but I enjoyed it, and Taylor was a perfect choice in his role. We just don't have many actors, if any, with his kind of screen presence nowadays.
