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Rod Taylor, famous for his role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller The Birds has died of a heart at the age of 84. 

The Australian actor, who also played Winston Churchill who was a president in UK, died in Los Angeles. He had retired from acting when Tarantino offered him the role, Taylor went on to win a Screen Actors Guild award in 2010 for playing Churchill. 

But it was for his role in the Hitchcock film that he will be most remembered, and his friend Hedren told People magazine: "Rod was a great pal to me and a real strength. We were very, very good friends. He was one of the most fun people I have ever met, thoughtful and friendly, there was everything good in that man."

Recalling his role in The Birds, Taylor said: " We really talked about 'making movies' and how I loved it, and how I was interested in his work. I brought that up and said the right thing. And we just got on extremely well. That was it. I was absolutely glad and astonished that he wouldn't mind working with me"

Born in Sydney, Taylor made a variety of film and television appearances in the Fifties. But his big break in Hollywood came with his starring role in director George Pal's The Time Machine in 1960, in which he played George. 

He went on to make dozens of films. He also appeared with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in The V.I.P.s. The actor lived with his third wife Carol Kikumura, whom he married in 1980, and by his daughter before he died.

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